14 DAY TRIAL // Though the GeForce GTS 460 is covering the upper level of the mainstream, the rest of the consumer base still has to wait for NVIDIA to unveil the GTS 450, but even though shipments aren't slated to commence for about two weeks, Manli's model has already been pictured.
The GTS 450 will be just one of the video cards that NVIDIA will provide for the mid-end and lower-end graphics card markets.
ASUS' own model, the ENGTS450 DirectCU, was itself spotted only days ago and revealed to have a clock frequency of 783 MHz.
That video board also featured 1GB of GDDR5 VRAM, clocked at 3,600 MHz, as well as 192 CUDA cores and a shader frequency of 1,566 MHz.
Manli's offering, which has only just been spotted by DonanimHaber, has a design that very much resembles the GeForce GTX 460 reference card.
Thus, it can be assumed that it does, in fact, feature the referenc GTS 450 model, albeit with a green-colored PCB (printed circuit board).
According to the reports, Chinese AIC partner Manli gave its GeForce GTS 450 clocks of 789 MHz for the memory, 1,566 MHz for the shaders and 3,600 MHz for the 1GB of GDDR5.
The memory interface seems to have remained unchanged, at 128 bits, and the total bandwidth is of 57.7 GB/s.
This video board looks like it sticks to reference specs overall and should prove a worthwhile mainstream card.
Still, it will fall to reviewers to decide whether power consumption and heat generation are just as appealing as the specifications themselves.
The report states that the price of the product is of US $130, which would make it somewhat cheaper than ASUS' version, which supposedly costs 140 Euro.
Nevertheless, the green colored video controller has yet to start shipping, so its price, like that of the ENGTS450 DirectCU, may suffer some alterations.