14 DAY TRIAL // Like several other of NVIDIA's manufacturing partners, EVGA will be unleashing custom versions of the GeForce GTS 450 graphics card, namely one that sticks to reference specs and a a factory overclocked version dubbed GTS 450 SuperClocked.
As end-users may know by now, the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 is slated to become the replacement for the GeForce GTS 250.
This reference card will have the GF106 40nm graphics processing GPU, based on the Fermi architecture, clocked at 783 MHz.
Also, the shader and memory clocks of the adapter will be of 1,566 MHz and 3,608 MHz, respectively.
As it sticks to NVIDIA's stock specifications, EVGA's 'regular' card will reportedly have the same price as these ones.
It is the SuperClocked card that will truly cause waves once it finally makes its presence felt.
As far as the exact components are concerned, the SC will have the same number of 192 CUDA cores and the memory interface of 128 bits.
The clocks, however, will be quite a bit higher, the GPU, for instance, being pushed all the way up to 882 MHz.
This leaves the shaders and 1GB of GDDR5 memory operating at 1,764 MHz and 3,800 MHz, respectively.
Needless to say, the newcomers will have full support for DirectX 11, as well as NVIDIA's proprietary technologies, such as PhysX, CUDA and 2-way SLI, for multi-GPU configurations.
As for cooling, the heatsink has a disk shape and has radially-projecting fins, which is different from the spirally-projecting, forked aluminum fins that NVIDIA's reference design uses.
According to the leaks running rampant on the web, the official announcement of this video adapter will occur on Monday. As for pricing, deliveries will be carried out in exchange for $154.
It will be interesting to see just how this model contributes to NVIDIA's goal of reclaiming supremacy on the graphics card market.