The Geforce GTS 450 is NVIDIA's new mainstream GPU with DirectX 11 and PhysX support, with a GPU clock of 783Mhz its performance was quite underwhelming at launch. Today however we take a closer look at a factory overclocked unit from Asus, equipped with custom heatpipe cooler and a healthy 142Mhz GPU overclocked, that's supposed to be a bit faster than the stock model, enough to make the GTS 450 a video card to consider? Let us find out.
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Right from the get go you know what you're dealing with, Asus puts in very big font that this card is factory overclocked to 925Mhz, and I love the fact that they put the generic Geforce GTS 450 core clock beneath it, how many people who buy their hardware from a store shelve know these defaults by heart?
GPU Codename |
GF106 |
Manufacturing Process |
40nm |
Transistors |
1170 Million |
Die Size |
238 mm² |
Interface |
PCIe 2.0 x16 |
Memory |
1024Mb GDDR5 |
SM Count |
4 |
GPU Clock |
925Mhz |
Memory Clock |
1000Mhz |
Shader Clock |
1850Mhz |
So how does it compare to its precedessors? If we look at the Geforce 300 lineup we see that's a completely different beast, so another level down to Geforce GTS 250, which in turn is nothing a rebadge Geforce 9800 GTX+, and that one is a die-shrunk and overclocked Geforce 8800 GTX, which was released back in November 2006, so almost 4 years later we have a new technology and the opportunity to find out how a €120 midrange entry level model stacks up to these previous high-end models.