14 DAY TRIAL // With NVIDIA having made the formal introduction of the GeForce GTS 450 video card, Club 3D wasted no time in joining the stream of custom-models, so it brought out its own device, based on the reference design and lacking any major changes to the performance numbers.
While the GeForce GTX 460 is intended for the upper level of the mainstream, the so-called performance market as it were, the GTS 450 aims one step lower.
This card is powered by the GF106 graphics processing unit and aimed at the masses, bearing a performance level and a price point suited for its target consumer base.
The GTS 450 is meant to take the place of the GeForce GTS 250, which has been doing its best to hold the line on the mid-end field for some time now.
Club 3D's invention is, more or less, faithful, both design-wise and as far as performance goes, to the original that the Santa Clara, California-based GPU maker itself unveiled.
The model features 192 CUDA cores, 1GB of GDDR5 memory and an interface of 128 bits, in addition to the dual-DVI and HDMI outputs.
As for clock frequencies, the GPU works at 783 MHz, whereas the shaders are clocked at 1,566 MHz and the memory operates at 3,608 MHz.
Needless to say, all of NVIDIA's proprietary technologies are supported by the new card, not just DirectX 11 graphics.
The list of such technologies includes CUDA, GPU PhysX, 3D Vision and 2-way SLI, for multi-GPU configurations and, thus, an even higher performance threshold.
Finally, Club 3D strapped a dual-slot cooler with a single fan on top of its latest creation, which should be enough considering the lack of factory overclocking.
Having already been listed in Europe, the Club 3D GeForce GTS 450 may be found coupled with a reported price tag of 152.75 Euro.