NVIDIA GTS 450 SLI – An Impressive Duet

Testing Platform

Prosesor: Intel Core i7 930 @4 GHz (200×20)
Motherboard: Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
Graphics card: NVIDIA GTS 450 SLI, NVIDIA GTS 450 SLI OC (Core clock 930 MHz; Shader Clock 1860 MHz; Memory clock 4000 MHz), NVIDIA GTX 470 OC (Core clock 625 MHz; Shader Clock 1250 MHz; Memory clock 3348 MHz)
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

Test Results

Alien VS Predator

Setting : 1920×1080; DirectX 11; Texture Quality – Very High; Shadow Quality – High; SSAO – On; AF x16; No-MSAA

Alien VS Predator is one of the first DirectX 11 games to enter the market. In this game, a single GTS 450 could only produce less than 30 frames per second. An additional GeForce GTS 450 card gives a 95% performance boost, which increased the frame count to 46,8 FPS. You can also notice that the two GTS 450s outrun the slightly more expensive GeForce GTX 470 OC.

CRYSIS

Setting : 1920×1080; DirectX 10; Quality Preset – High; No-AA

SLI gives a 86% performance boost in this game. By overclocking the GTS 450s, we once again surpass the GTX 470 OC.

LEFT4DEAD

Setting : 1920×1080; No-AA; AF-Trilinear; Maximum Quality

A single GTS 450 is already sufficient to run the game without any slowdown. Another GTS 450 further increases the frame count to over 140 FPS.