14 DAY TRIAL // The many leaks and rumors of the past few weeks will have likely alerted to consumer base to the approach of the GeForce GTS 450 Fermi graphics card, and it appears that NVIDIA has finally issued the official announcement of this DirectX 11 card.
Eager to finally get the competition on the mainstream level started for real, NVIDIA has now released the GeForce GTS 450.
This new video board is built around the GF106 graphics processing unit and is expected to start giving AMD's Radeon HD 5700 line a hard time.
Hardware-wise, the card comes with 192 CUDA cores, 1GB of GDDR5 VRAM and clock speeds of 783 MHz for the GPU, 1,566 MHz for the shaders and 3,608 MHz for the memory.
Additionally, the adapter is designed with dual-DVI and mini HDMI outputs, a 6-pin connector being all that is required to keep it running.
As one would expect, the model has full support for the various technologies that NVIDIA offers, such as SLI, 3D Vision, CUDA and PhysX, among others.
"The GeForce GTS 450 makes huge strides in expanding DX11 capability to the masses," said Sid Meier, Director of Creative Development, Firaxis Games.
"Civilization V plays beautifully on the GTS 450 and looks even more amazing with 3D Vision technology," he added.
"We are excited about the GeForce GTS 450, which brings awesome performance to a very affordable price point," said Shinsaku Ohara, Producer of Dead Rising 2 at Capcom.
"By delivering a great gaming experience mixed with some cutting-edge features such as support for 3D Vision, we are confident that fans of Dead Rising 2 will have a great platform to play on," Ohara went on to saying.
Reviews of the newcomer have already been released by the likes of HotHardware, TweakTown, Legit Reviews and PC Perspective.
Finally, the GPU maker claims that its latest video board possesses a high overclocking headroom, even staying stable at up to 900 MHz.
Companies like Galaxy, EVGA, Colorful, Leadtek, ASUS and MSI, among others, should soon lunch custom designs as well. The price point of the stock-clocked ones should linger around $130.