Is the Nvidia GTS 450 good?

The Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 is in serious gamers’ graphics card territory, without hitting the big prices. Nvidia doesn’t have a great lineup in the budget segment of cards, and anything lower than this here GeForce GTS 450 isn’t really worth a look for those with any passing interest in frame rates.

Can you overclock GTS 450?

Unlike the GTX 460 launch where the vendor cards we had all came with a mild factory overclock, for the GTS 450 launch all of our cards have a significant factory overclock. With a solid overclock you can beat the 5770 most of the time, but it’s not enough to get much higher than that.

What’s the difference between GeForce GTS 450 and GTX 460?

The GeForce GTS 450 comes with a GPU core speed of 783 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 902 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 192 Stream Processors, 32 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units. Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 460, which features a clock speed of 675 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 900 MHz.

Is the GeForce GTX 460 based on the gf106?

The GeForce GTX 460 was (and still is) based on a cut-back version of the GF104 GPU. This was to avoid showing up the GeForce GTX 470 with too much performance. Today, the GeForce GTS 450 represents Nvidia’s first Fermi-based card based on an unaltered graphics processor, GF106.

What happens when you overclock a GeForce GTX 460?

In our recent overclocking tests of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 and GTX 465, we found that pushing the cards to their performance limits essentially provided the equivalent of a free upgrade. After all, the overclocked GTX 460 outperformed a stock-clocked GTX 465, and upping the GTX 465’s clock speed boosted performance up to 20 percent.

Is the gf106 used on the GTS 450?

The GF106 used on GeForce GTS 450 actually is deliberately handicapped by Nvidia. The only product, thus far, based on an unaltered GF106 is the GeForce GTX 460M mobile graphics module. Here, one ROP partition is turned off and simply “ignored” by Nvidia’s team of block diagram marketers.