14 DAY TRIAL // EVGA has updated its product portfolio with yet another graphics card based on an Nvidia design, the GeForce GT 545, which targets primarily users interested in building a multimedia oriented desktop PC.
The GeForce GT 545 was made official by Nvidia in mid-May to cater to the needs of the OEM market, but a few of these GPUs also made their appearance in retail products just as the card EVGA has announced today.
At the heart of the GeForce GT 545 stands the same GF116 core that was also used for the GTX 550 Ti, but, this time, some of its shader units and one of the memory controllers were disabled in order to lower the price of the card.
This means that unlike the GTX 550 Ti, which sport 192 CUDA cores, the GT 454 features only 144 stream processors, which are accompanied by 24 texture units, 16 ROP units and an 128-bit memory bus.
In the case of EVGA's solution this is linked to 1.5GB of DDR3 memory, which is clocked at 900MHz, while the GPU runs at 720MHz.
Like most other low-end graphics cards, the EVGA GeForce GT 545 sports DVI, VGA and HDMI video outputs, but it also includes an SLI connector for pairing together two such boards for an added performance boost.
EVGA states that the GeForce GT 545 is already available in retail stores, but its price hasn't been disclosed yet. Outside of the card, the bundle also includes a 3DMark 11 license.
Nvidia also manufacturers a faster version of the GT 545 which includes 24 ROP units, a 192-bit wide memory bus and supports GDDR5 memory, but EVGA hasn't announced any plans to release such a graphics card.