nVidia Launches GeForce GTS 450

The folks at NVIDIA were able finally to launch the third generation GPU Fermi. It is called the GF106 and will propel the first GeForce 450 GTS, which will struggle with AMD's Radeon HD 5770, priced at $ 130 (HD 5770 was slightly cheaper, largely because IM's GeForce GTX 460) .

GF108 is achieved at the same TSMC 40 nm process technology, includes 1.17 billion transistors and has 192 Stream Processors (grouped into four Streaming Multiprocessors and a Graphics Processing Cluster), 384 KB L2 cache, 24's and 16 ROP texture units. GDDR5 memory and uses a 192 bit bus. The nVidia GPU is used to full capacity in the GeForce GTX 460M, but in GT 445M

And as we have used Fermi-generation desktop segment, the first motherboard that uses a new graphics chip does not have all items enabled. Thus, although the GeForce GTS 450 (783 MHz) is functional all 192 Stream Processors, the 1566 MHz frequency, only comes with 16 ROP's and 256 KB L2 cache. 3600 MHz and GDDR5 memory, the amount of 1 GB is 128 bits. TDP's acceptable at 106 W.

External card GTX 460 look almost identical. So has a length of 210 mm (8.25 ") and occupies two slots. And the connectivity we have two DVI ports and a miniHDMI plus six pin power connector on the back. The rest have SLI compatibility, 3D Vision, PhysX, CUDA, DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.0.

Again we see as undermining NVIDIA GPUs, and so arrived too late on the market (almost a year after direct competitor HD 5770). But can recover the performance chapter ... Well no! Overall GTS 450 that HD 5770 is weaker in some games being reached and the HD 5750.

Wash at least a little shame in overclocking, enabling up to 950 MHz frequency. But considering that AMD will launch new video cards starting next month, we wonder how nVidia will withstand the current pace.