NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450: OpenGL 4 and Direct3D 11 for $130
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 reference board
NVIDIA has officially launched today its new baby: the GeForce GTS 450 in order to compete with AMD Radeon HD 5700 series like the Radeon HD 5770. The GeForce GTS 450 is based on the new GF106 GPU but with only two ROP partitions and two memory interface partitions enabled. The full GF106 includes one GPC (Graphics Processing Cluster), four SMs (Streaming multiprocessors), three ROP partitions, and three 64-bit memory interfaces.
The GeForce GTS 450 targets gamers that are younger and that have a tight budget. And according to NVIDIA, this group of gamers makes up the majority of the gamaing market.
Main features of the GeForce GTS 450
- GPU: GF106 @ 783MHz, 40nm TSMC, 1950 million transistors
- Shader cores: 192 @ 1566MHz
- Streaming multiprocessors: 4, each SM having 48 cores
- Memory: 1GB GDDR5 @ 1804MHz DDR speed or 902MHz real speed or 3608MHz QDR speed, 128-bit
- Texture units: 32
- ROPs: 16
- 3D APIs: OpenGL 4.1 and Direct3D 11
- GPU Computing: OpenCL 1.1, CUDA, PhysX and DirectCompute
- TDP: 106W
- Power connector: one 6-pin
- Price: US $130 or 120 euros
GPU-Z of MSI’s N450GTS Cyclone
Performances
FurMark 1.8.2, OpenGL 2 – Notice how 2-way SLI works fine with FurMark!
Unigine Heaven 2.1, Direct3D 11, tessellation: extreme
QuakeWars, OpenGL 2
Power consumption and Temperatures
Power consumption with FurMark
According to this chart and using a PSU factor or 0.9, the power consumption of the GeForce GTS 450 is really high under FurMark:
(247-150) * 0.9 = 127.8W which is 20W more power than the TDP.
This power consumption is confirmed by KitGuru’s test:
Power consumption with FurMark
The VRM of the GTS 450: 3 phases for the GPU and one phase for the memory.
GPU temperature with FurMark
Reviews
- Nvidia GeForce GTS 450, GeForce GTS 450 SLI and Palit GTS 450 Sonic Platinum Review @ TechSpot
- Nvidia’s GeForce GTS 450 graphics processor @ The Tech Report
- MSI N450GTS Cyclone 1GB Review @ KitGuru
- MSI N450GTS Cyclone Video Card Review @ [H]ard|OCP
- MSI N450GTS Cyclone OC 1 GB @ TPU
- NVIDIA’s GeForce GTS 450: Pushing Fermi In To The Mainstream @ AnandTech
- NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 SLI Video Card Review w/ ASUS, EVGA and MSI @ Legit Reviews
- NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Affordable DX11 GPU @ HotHardware
- Galaxy NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1GB Review – Fermi goes lower, again @ PC Persp
- GeForce GTS 450 review roundup @ Guru3D
GeForce GTS 450 Round-up
Palit GTS 450 Sonic Platinum
ASUS GeForce GTS 450 DirectCu TOP (ENGTS450)
Zotac GeForce GTS 450 AMP! Edition
Lantic GeForce GTS 450
Gigabyte GeForce GTS 450 OC
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Considering you can get a Sparkle GTX460 192bits by 150$ the GTS450 has a very high price for what it offers…
And, yep, we all know that ATI’s cards have a very slow tessellator and poor GPGPU performance.
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