| NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 GF106 Video Card |  |
| Reviews - Featured Reviews: Video Cards | |
| Written by Olin Coles | |
| Monday, 13 September 2010 | |
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GeForce GTS 450 Partner ProductsNVIDIA sells their graphics technology to a large host of add-in card partners (AIC's), and many are expected to take advantage of GTS 450's competitively focused price point. Companies will offer the GTS 450 with 1GB of GDDR5 video memory. This section offers a preview at the design implementations used by some of the most popular finished-goods companies:
ASUS ENGTS450-DirectCU-TOP-1G Video CardASUS will immediately launch several versions of the GeForce GTS 450, using their ENGTS450 part number. The ASUS ENGTS450-DirectCU-TOP-1G (above) will use an internally exhausting custom cooling solution on this factory-overclocked model.
Gigabyte GV-N450OC-1GI GTS 450 Video CardGigabyte Technology is quickly gaining popularity as a NVIDIA AIC partner, and will have their custom-cooled GTS 450 available at launch. The Gigabyte GV-N450OC-1GI is their internally exhausting factory-overclocked 1GB model.
Leadtek Winfast GTS 450 Video CardThe Leadtek Winfast GTS 450 is very similar to the reference version, but shaves off some of the plastic shroud and loses its external exhaust feature on this factory-overclocked model.
MSI N450GTS-Cyclone-1GD5-OC Video CardMSI, the name known my master overclockers world-wide, will have a 1GB GeForce GTS 450 named Cyclone (MSI N450GTS-Cyclone-1GD5-OC) that comes factory overclocked. This video card feature MSI's internally-exhausting 'Cyclone' GPU cooler that loosely resembled the reference design without the plastic shroud.
PNY GTS 450 Overclocked XLR8 Video CardFeaturing an externally-exhausting reference cooling solution, the PNY GTS 450 Overclocked XLR8 video card will come bundled with a copy of Starcraft II.
Sparkle GeForce GTS 450 Passive Video CardThere are few AIC partners offering externally-exhausting versions of the GeForce GTS 450, and even fewer with passive cooling options. The Sparkle GeForce GTS 450 Passive video card is the only silent version we've seen available at launch.
Zotac GeForce GTS 450 AMP! Edition Video CardZOTAC International goes beyond a custom cooling design, and also offers a unique video output selection on their version of the GeForce GTS 450. The ZOTAC GeForce GTS 450 series are the first graphics cards to ship with the new ZOTAC Boost Premium software bundle that features five applications, including vReveal 2.0, Nero Vision Xtra, Cooliris, Kylo and XBMC media center. Look for the ZOTAC GTS 450 AMP! Edition to add DisplayPort to the standard dual-DVI and HDMI output ports.
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Comments
thanks for the review
We haven't been able to say this for a few years, but the NVIDIA cards are now the better deal.
Especially with the prices that they're coming in at.
1. Cuda
2. PhysX
3. Better/ easier driver installs/upgrades
4. A lot more stable drivers across the board
5. Ambient occlusion "in the driver update" new features w drivers
6. Folding superiority
7. Dual card scaling superiority, recently from good to outstanding
8. see #3 / no "mouse cursor disappears", no "cursor corruption" (seen since ati's all in wonder pci - a recurring issue for YEARS )
9. no dot net 2.0 requirements
10. superior control panel for a long, long time.
11. Since GTX200 series, LOTS of free software - including free 3d game Warmonger - works wonderfully with instant peer to peer gaming - destructive in game environment via PhysX.
12. Free Ray Tracing Design Garage since GTX200 = 400 series win7.
13. 2 frames 2 bucks and 2 watts
The question will be when AMD will drop prices on the 57XX and when the 6XXX will come to market. If the 6XXX comes Q1-2 NVIDIA could have a big problem but that's a big if.
The GTX 260 is not a DirectX-11 video card, which limits it to only half of the tests. Additionally, this isn't a 5770 review... it's a GTS 450 review. Nobody really cares how the GTX 260 compares with the 5770, and if they did, they could go read those reviews.
Here, I'll review for the great Lord, since I've seen 100 comparisons online, not certain where the great Lord has been, except perhaps in Oblivion.
The GTX260 is faster than the 5770, a bit more so than the 5770 has so far shown a slight advantage against the GTS450.
The deranged online pop culture fan community will scream the 450 competes with the 5750, as usual, pretending someone should listen to the free ati upgrade and nvidia downgrade, despite the available evidence. Do not be fooled, unless of course, you simply cannot help it.
If that's the case scream a few lies in reply.
I will probably have a few good replies but I tried to run ATI but the load times on my games was un-bearable and when ATI was contacted they could only tell me "they are addressing the issue in the next driver update." Sorry I don't have 3 months to wait around for driver fixes. I bought the product so fix it. Plus I remember not to long ago when the ATI 800 AIW came out about 2 months later vista came out and what did ATI do to its loyal fan base. Oh that's right no driver support for any AIW cards in Vista, not that Vista was a good OS to begin with. So those like me that bought the card for nearly $300 dollars were SOL.
Thanks to you I purchased the GTX 460 1GB, and it's a great card, if only I could get it to run Design Garage
It gives me a "not enough memory" error, bah!
Apart from that, just awesome performance for the $$
Anyone else run into this?
It's not that important really, but my old GTX 260 ran it fine with only 768 MB, go figure eh?
Thanks.