NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 – An Even More Affordable Version of Fermi

Graphics Card

For our testing purposes this time, we received two GeForce GTS 450 samples from two different graphics card makers. They are:

• Palit GTS 450 1GB Sonic Platimum (930 MHz / 1860 MHz / 4000 MHz)

• MSI N450GTS Cyclone 1GD5 (850 MHz / 1700 MHz / 4000 MHz)

Since both GTS 450s came pre-overclocked, we had to lower their frequencies to match NVIDIA’s standard reference speed. We also brought in the GeForce GTS 250 and Radeon HD 5770 from ATI for comparison purposes. It would be interesting to see where the GTS 450 sits amongst the other GPUs in its class. Our testing platform is as follows.

Test Platform

Prosesor: Intel Core i7 930 @4 GHz (200×20)
Motherboard: Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
Graphics cards:
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB
ATI Radeon HD 5770

Memory: 3×1GB Kingston KHX16000D3T1K3/3GX
Harddisk: Western Digital Caviar Black 500 GB (32 MB Cache)
Power Supply: Enermax Revolution 85+ 1050 Watt
Heatsink: Gelid Tranquilo
Monitor: Philips 221E
Input: Genius (Keyboard and Mouse)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
Driver :
NVIDIA Forceware 260.52
NVIDIA Forceware 258.96
ATI Catalyst 10.8