NVIDIA’s GeForce GTS 450: Pushing Fermi In To The Mainstream
by Ryan Smith on September 13, 2010 12:02 AM EST- Posted in
- NVIDIA
- Fermi
- GeForce GTS 450
- GF106
- GPUs
DIRT 2
Codemasters latest racing game marks the return of a racer to our benchmark suite. As the first DX11 racer, DIRT 2 makes pretty through use of the DX11’s tessellation abilities, not to mention being the best looking racer we have ever seen.
DIRT 2 is another game where the GTS 450 fits in comfortably between the 5750 and the 5770. And it performs well enough that even 1920x1200 with 4x anti-aliasing is an option, depending on how playable you find 40fps for a racing game. Overclocking is necessary to beat the 5770 however.
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Hrel - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - link
Hi, can you please get this card put in bench. I know you're updating soon, but I'd love it if you could just add this one last card to the current configuration. And then not toss it when the test bed gets updated, just label it by the date, as the old version. This would be very very helpful, thank you!Ryan Smith - Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - link
I'm working on Bench right now in fact. it will be in there later this morning.Casper42 - Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - link
You guys really need to stop insisting the GTX 480 is a $500 card.The one your Pricing table links to is some crazy beast of a card that is now the exception rather than the rule.
NewEgg has over 10 cards for under $500 and only 4 above $500.
Including Rebates the average price comes down to at least $470 if not cheaper.
Ryan Smith - Thursday, September 16, 2010 - link
In this case $500 is NVIDIA's official MSRP. That's right off their price chart from late last week.DJ-Destiny - Friday, October 1, 2010 - link
Okay , so that "ring-choke" thing ,isn't quite a ring-choke .
It's an solid core inductor .
Oxford Guy - Wednesday, November 17, 2010 - link
"The extra power enables extra performance, but it completely blows the performance-per-watt of the GTS 450 cards.""Given this, it makes little sense not to overclock as long as you have a card with a suitable limit."
If one wants more performance, and more performance per watt, perhaps buying one of these to overlock isn't so sensible?