It gets even worse when you realise that you can pick up a Radeon HD 5770 for less than $140 if you shop around, so it really comes down to how Nvidia prices the GTS 450 if itвЂ™s going to be a success or not. This isnвЂ™t terrible for a card that should play most games at more than 30fps at 1920x1080, but it doesnвЂ™t seem to be significantly cheaper than the GTX 460 768MB cards which can be had for around $190 now. GeForce GTS 450 Game Requirement Analysis Overview GeForce GTS 450 is a fast-middle-class Graphics Card based on the first revision of the Fermi Architecture. The GTS 450 should hit retail at around $149 for stock cards while overclocked models are likely to add $20-40. Again quite playable, but not exactly impressive for a brand new mid-range graphics card.Дespite AsusвЂ™ best attempt at overclocking its card, it doesnвЂ™t seem to make a huge difference with FarCry 2 getting a mere 17 percent performance boost and the other games even less so. In Call of Juarez things are looking up with the stock card managing an average of 38fps, the Asus card 44fps, the 5770 45.9fps and the GTX 460 56.9fps. The stock GTS 450 only manages an average of 14.29fps with the Asus card getting 16.56fps, the 5770 20.15fps and the GTX 460 21.56fps. Things arenвЂ™t as rosy in Crysis where none of the cards offer a playable frame rate at 1920x1200. ThatвЂ™s more than playable frame rate and considering that most displays top out at 1920x1080 these days it seems like this is the target Nvidia has been aiming for with the GTS 450. In FarCry 2 at 1920x1200 with the details set to ultra-high without AA the stock card manages an average of 51.24fps compared to 55.73fps for the 5770, 60.19fps for the overclocked Asus card and 76.3 for a 768MB GTX 460. As the leaked details only consist of pictures some relevant details are missing, so weвЂ™ll stick with a brief overview of the benchmarks. The stock shaders are clocked at 1566MHz which Asus has pushed to 1850MHz on its card and the stock GDDR5 memory speed is 3.6GHz which Asus again has improved upon by clocking it to 4GHz. AsusвЂ™ card offers just this with the GPU clocked at 925MHz compared to 783MHz stock for the GTS 450.

The GTS 450 is a fairly capable card, but to be able to compete with the Radeon HD 5770 some overclocking has to be done.

Considering that AMD will have a new range of cards out soon, weвЂ™d expect the gap to increase in AMDвЂ™s favour. Judging by the results weвЂ™d say that the GTS 450 isnвЂ™t going to be a top seller as in most of the tests itвЂ™s no faster than a Radeon HD 5770. Beyond a stock GTS 450, AsusвЂ™ ENGTS450 TOP which is a slightly overclocked card is also part of the benchmark numbers. The benchmarks put the GeForce GTS 450 up against NvidiaвЂ™s own GTX 460 as well as AMDвЂ™s Radeon HD 5770. ItвЂ™s not clear where the details come from, although some of the pictures of the card are watermarked with the word overclock, but we're fairly certain that Nvidia are none too happy with this leak. MOST WEBSITES TEND to stick to NDAs they sign, but from time to time people slip up and this seems to be the case of some early Nvidia GTS 450 benchmarks were posted over at Xtreme Systems. GeForce GTS 450 benchmarks slips out early

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