14 DAY TRIAL // While the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 is getting cheaper, mainstream users are likely eagerly waiting for the arrival of the GTS 450, and it seems that Zotac is quite eager to experiment with performance boosts, its GeForce GTS 450 AMP! model having already been listed.
The GeForce GTS 450 is expected to become the successor to the GTS 250, which has been holding the mainstream segment for quite some time.
The reference model should be released by NVIDIA in a few days, at which point the GTX 460, now selling for as little as $169, will no longer be the cheapest Fermi board on the market.
In its base form, the model is known to have a GPU clock speed of 783 MHz, a shader frequency of 1,566 MHz and a memory clock of 3,608 MHz.
Now, Zotac's GTS 450 AMP! has reportedly shown up on online retailers, only its clocks are so high that they actually seem, more or less, outlandish.
First off, the graphics processing unit operates at 875 MHz,, a fair jump from the 783 MHz.
Also, the shaders are pushed all the way to 1,750 MHz, whereas the 1GB of GDDR5 VRAM is set at a full 4,000 MHz.
What's more, the board features a dual-slot cooler and, though not exactly a common design on NVIDIA cards, is fitted with a DisplayPort connector in addition to dual-DVI and HDMI.
Other specifications include 192 CUDA cores and a memory interface of 128 bits.
Of course, since this is a pre-release listing, it is still possible that the performance numbers were given erroneously, regardless of how unlikely that may be.
Either way, when the GTS 450 does debut, Zotac will have a stock-clocked version of it on sale in addition to this AMP! model. The latter has a reported price tag of $194 but will probably drop to a lower figure once it actually starts shipping.