14 DAY TRIAL // With NVIDIA having released the GTS 450 only a short while ago, Point of View figured it would not lag too far behind its rivals, so it delivered its own video controller which, though it sticks to reference specifications, appears to be somewhat cheaper than competing products.
The Fermi architecture is NVIDIA's technology with support for DirectX 11 graphics and is what lies at the base of all the GeForce GTX or GTS 400 series.
AMD held the DirectX 11 market to itself for months before the high-end GTX 480 and GTX 470 came out, and even then it kept dominion over the mainstream and lower segments.
Later, its hold over the mainstream was lessened somewhat, upon NVIDIA's completion of the GeForce GTX 460, powered by the GF104 processor.
This card only controls the upper segment of the masses, however, the so-called performance market, and this led to the need for a true mid-end video board.
Thus, the Santa Clara, California-based company released the GeForce GTS 450, which should replace the GTS 250 and take on the AMD HD 5700 line.
Many of NVIDIA's partners have already launched their respective versions, and Point of View is now joining the fray.
Unlike its competitors, however, the hardware maker did not fiddle with the clock speeds, resolving, instead, to go for a lower price.
The board does, of course, have the 192 CUDA cores, the dual-slot, single-fan cooler, the 1GB of GDDR5 with a memory bus of 128 bits and support for 2-way SLI, among other things.
The exact frequencies are of 783 MHz for the GPU, 1,566 MHz for the shaders and 3,608 MHz for the VRAM, and video output options include dual-DVI and HDMI.
Finally, the graphics controller has a price tag of 122 Euro and should be available through various online retailers already.