14 DAY TRIAL // Now that the string of GT 430 releases has more or less settled down, the team composed of Point of View and TGT decided to deliver a new product for their Beast collection, namely a special iteration of the GT 450.
Point of View and TGT have been releasing graphics cards together for a while, one of the more recent ones being also their strongest yet.
The card in question is the GeForce GTX 480 Beast and is claimed to be the fastest Fermi-based adapter available on the market.
Now, the same POV-TGT duo has created a new device for the Beast series, this once a special version of the mainstream GTS 450.
Obviously called GeForce GTS 450 Beast, the card is overclocked to great heights, the GPU clock going especially high compared to the one sported by NVIDIA's reference design.
Basically, the GF106 graphics processing unit has a frequency of 920 MHz instead of just 783 MHz, which is a significant boost, one that will definitely make a difference in games.
The card, of course, has its own 1GB of GDDR5 memory, which runs, in this case, at 4,008 MHz, 1,002 MHz times 4 that is.
Furthermore, the newcomer has a shader clock of 1,840 MHz and support for DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.0 and, of course, for all of NVIDIA's technologies.
The list includes, among other things, PhysX, CUDA and 3D Vision, plus SLI, for multi-GPU configurations.
Basically, this video controller will render even modern games with advanced features, such as tessellation, more smoothly than not just NVIDIA's reference board, but also most other competing GTS 450 cards.
Unfortunately, there is no mention, for now, of pricing and availability, although the performance bonus of more than 135 MHz over the reference solution will naturally warrant a price premium over the original $130.