NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Launch Roundup: Asus, EVGA, Palit, and Calibre Overclocked and Reviewed
by Ryan Smith on September 13, 2010 6:08 PM ESTThe Test
As we’ve already covered the performance of the GTS 450 and all of these custom cards in our GTS 450 review earlier today, we’ll skip rehashing the performance characteristics of these cards and move on to power/temperature/noise/overclocking. In general the Asus, EVGA, and Palit cards all perform similarly thanks to their near-identical overclocks, while the lesser overclock on the Sparkle card means it performs roughly halfway between the reference-clocked GTS 450 and our heavily overclocked cards.
| CPU: | Intel Core i7-920 @ 3.33GHz |
| Motherboard: | Asus Rampage II Extreme |
| Chipset Drivers: | Intel 9.1.1.1015 (Intel) |
| Hard Disk: | OCZ Summit (120GB) |
| Memory: | Patriot Viper DDR3-1333 3 x 2GB (7-7-7-20) |
| Video Cards: |
AMD Radeon HD 5970 AMD Radeon HD 5870 AMD Radeon HD 5850 AMD Radeon HD 5830 AMD Radeon HD 5770 AMD Radeon HD 5750 AMD Radeon HD 4890 AMD Radeon HD 4870 1GB AMD Radeon HD 4850 AMD Radeon HD 3870 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Asus ENGTS450 Top Palit GeForce GTS 450 Sonic Platinum EVGA GeForce GTS 450 FTW Sparkle Calibre X450G |
| Video Drivers: |
NVIDIA ForceWare 197.13 NVIDIA ForceWare 257.15 Beta NVIDIA ForceWare 258.80 Beta NVIDIA ForceWare 260.52 Beta AMD Catalyst 10.3a AMD Catalyst 10.8b |
| OS: | Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit |
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Mathieu Bourgie - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - link
Ryan,First of all, great review on the GTS 450. Not a bad card, but I agree that it's not at the right price. Seems like AMD saw this and the price cut on the GTX 460 768MB coming and got ready with a price cut on the 5770.
Cut the GTS 450 to $120 though and then it would be competitive, since it would be $20 away from the Radeon HD 5770 and only $10 more than a Radeon HD 5750, in both cases just enough to make you consider it. At $130, it's $10 away from a Radeon HD 5770 and going with the 5770 is a no brainer for me.
Bring the GTS 450 down to $110 and its a blockbuster, since it has no problem outperforming the Radeon HD 5750 at the price.
It's not a bad card at all, it's competitive, but it's not the hit that the GTX 460 is, especially now with the 768MB edition at $170.
Anyway, that said, I was wondering: Why not throw some overclocked Radeon HD 5770s performance data in the mix?
I mean, here we see how well the GTS 450 performance scales from stock, to factory overclocked and finally, to manually overclocked with additional voltage.
How about doing the same with a Radeon HD 5770 and compare the performance?
You took a look at the PowerColor Radeon HD 5770 Vertex about three weeks ago (http://www.anandtech.com/show/3868/quick-look-powe... which has a small overclock, which is still enough to improve performance a tad. You could at least add the data from that test in here, no?
Obviously, we all expect the overclocked Radeon HD 5770 to distance itself further away from the GTS 450. The question that I and I'm sure that others are also interested in is: By what % or how many FPS does a manually overclocked Radeon HD 5770 beat an manually overclocked GTS 450?
azcoyote - Thursday, September 16, 2010 - link
Ryan,What are the chances we could see a roundup of low-profile and/or passively cooled cards?
That segment of cards seems pretty hard to find and pick parts for when building with space constraints.
Thanks!
Wiley
Palitusa - Thursday, September 16, 2010 - link
Palit designed a Low Profile and is the First one to release World Wide.http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...
It is half the size of GTS450!!
Ryan Smith - Friday, September 17, 2010 - link
I may be getting the Palit low-profile card soon. Stay tuned.Xpl1c1t - Thursday, September 30, 2010 - link
I'm tuned. More low profile cards need to impact the market these days.Mautaznesh - Friday, October 1, 2010 - link
I'd much rather go with an ATi card. Take advantage of the Eyefinity.