Saturday, September 11th 2010
GeForce GTS 450 Gets Listed on US Store, Reference Clock Model Pegged at $129.99
A couple of days ahead of its worldwide launch, NVIDIA's GeForce GTS 450 based graphics cards from various board partners have been listed on American e-tailer Newegg.com. The list of cards shows an interesting mix of prices and variants. To begin with, the base-model (those which stick to NVIDIA's reference clock speeds of 783/1566/900(3600) MHz core/shader/memory, are pegged at US $129.99. These are followed by mild-overclock variants (those with 4~5% increase in clock-speeds) being priced at around $135, those with higher overclock settings out of the box (that's 9% to 12%) are priced between $135 and $140. The GeForce GTS 450 is NVIDIA's lower-mainstream SKU based on the 40 nm GF106 GPU, it has 192 CUDA cores, 1 GB of GDDR5 memory across a 128-bit wide memory interface, and support for the latest PC graphics APIs including DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4. It is slated for early next week.
31 Comments on GeForce GTS 450 Gets Listed on US Store, Reference Clock Model Pegged at $129.99
Please test against an overclocked 5750. Those leaked slides that had the GTS450 8-10% ahead while being clocked ~12% higher should prove to be interesting, considering that 5750 scales pretty linearly with core clock, and we all know where all 40nm (minus GF100) seem to end up with a similar amount of voltage (~950mhz).
Curious how those two products compare when both are maxed out at stock voltage, and with them reasonably increased. I imagine it would be pretty close, and by close, I mean I expect the 5750 to eek out the win overall not counting Cuda, PhysX, and tessellation according to Heaven. I certainly don't expect a price/performance exception over the $105 shipped (W/ MIR) that you can find many flavors of 5750.
Also funny, the prices seem to line up with their TDP. :laugh:
As reviewed, it will look like a fine product. In context to anyone that even remotely understands the concept of (over)clocking, they should see this as a massive fail for a product that consumes a good deal more power under load. I hear it runs hot too...and magically is missing two RAM chips on it's PCB to go along with 8 ROPs and a 64-bit controller.
In the current market, this card looks worth about $99.99. That's not being a flamboyant ass of a fanboy, that's just objective reality.
Good to know Nvidia is ready with this release to have instant widespread availiability.
looks like I'll be running an AMD card this Christmas.
edit: nvm, they show up listed under the GTX 400 link which is kind of weird.
Lets see SLI reviews first before jumping ahead.
Again wait for reviews to see how well it does in SLI.
efficiency means how much power(from your wall) is converted to useable energy.
any power left over (not converted) is released as heat, inside your case. that (obviously) raises your temps, shortens component life, and is simply a waste!
so if you have a card that is only 60% efficient power->performance , than 40% of that is wasted as heat ... which is baaadd.
ok so it's not simply "heat" , but it's hot.
I like my 800core 470 though :toast:
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I think i found the perfect card to get to replace my 9800gt(plan on using for backup), the 450's, those prices are perfect!