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
Crysis: Warhead
Kicking things off as always is Crysis: Warhead, still the toughest game in our benchmark suite.Even 2 years since the release of the original Crysis, “but can it run Crysis?” is still an important question.
Ideally, NVIDIA would like the GTS 450 to be able to play everything at 1680x1050 at high settings with 4x anti-aliasing. Crysis of course eludes this, just as it does all attempts to play it at a decent framerate. Even the factory overclocked cards can’t muster 30fps here. For that we have to drop our settings to Gamer quality without AA.
Overall, at reference clocks the GTS 450 doesn’t fare so well here. At our standard 1680 setting it just falls to the Radeon HD 5750, and is miles away from the 5770. At Gamer quality it switches positions with the 5750, but still has quite a gap with the 5770. However the overclocked cards fare much better here, and they can bring the GTS 450 up to parity with the 5770. Since the cheapest 5770s are selling for no more than the GTS 450, ideally it (or its overclocked variants) need to be able to keep up with the 5770.
When it comes to minimum framerates the GTS 450 does a bit better here by edging out the 5750, but it takes a factory overclocked card to beat the 5770.
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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?