14 DAY TRIAL // NVIDIA finally released the GeForce GTS 450 graphics card and it seems that its manufacturing partners are quite excited, Gainward even bringing out not just one or two, but three distinct models with varying degrees of customization.
The AMD Radeon HD 5700 series of graphics adapters, for months, were the only DirectX 11 mainstream video cards on the desktop market.
This changed somewhat when NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 460 model debuted, aimed at the upper level, the so-called performance market.
Now, NVIDIA has presented its offering for the masses, the GeForce GTS 450, and Gainward is, unsurprisingly, just behind it with its own.
The hardware maker has offered the GeForce GTS 450, the GTS 450 GS (Golden Sample) and the GTS 450 GS-GLH (Golden Sample Goes Like Hell).
All three are powered by the GF100 graphics processing unit and share a number of specifications, such as the number of CUDA cores, the amount of memory, the interface and the range of supported technologies.
To be more specific, the boards come with 192 CUDA cores, 1GB of GDDR5 VRAM, an interface of 128 bits and support for 2-way SLI, PhysX, CUDA etc.
As for their clock speeds, the three boards have increasing levels of factory overclocking, the GS-GLH bearing clocks especially massive in terms of MHz.
The GTS 450 stick to reference clocks, which means that its GPU is at 783 MHz, the shaders run at 1566 MHz and the memory at 3608 MHz.
The GTS 450 GS has speeds of 880 MHz, 1760 MHz and 3900 MHz for the GPU, shaders and VRAM.
As for the GS-GLH, it is much faster, with performance numbers reaching an impressive 930 MHz for the GF106, 1860 for the shaders and 4000 MHz for the 1GB of GDDR5.
Unfortunately, the exact prices are not specifically mentioned, though they should be of $130 or higher, especially in the case of the GS-GLH.