Nvidia GeForce GTS 450: Hello GF106, Farewell G92

[Nintendork]

Bottlenecked by memory bandwith, nvidia controller is not as powerfull as AMD ones.

GTS450*128/8 57.6GB/s
HD5750*128/8 73.6GB/s
HD5770*128/8 76.8GB/s

Tom:
No matter if you delete my post, more bad opinions will come.

 

[Doom3klr]

5770 spanks the gts 450

 

[experimentxx]

Funny how all other pc hardware review sites gave the card their top awards, considering what the 450 brings...

I guess it just shows how objective tom's hardware reviews are.

 

[Doom3klr]

Why bother with a gts 450 for 129.00 when you can get a ati 5770 for 139.00 outright and after rebates 129.00

 

[Doom3klr]

Looks like amd's got the leg up on the mainstream value cards

 

[digiex]

ouch, still to hot to handle...

 

[jgv115]

Looks like my HD4850 has still got the goods. I see no reason to upgrade

 

[forces]

Another fail from Nvidia, too late(11 months), still power hungry,still slow, 5770 for $139 and radeon hd 6000 series close to launch...

 

[Gin Fushicho]

I don't think I'll ever recommend a GTS450. Would rather have a GTS250 still.

 

[ionut19]

"It generally lands in between the Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 performance-wise." Agreed, but a little closer to the 5750.
One question, how did you manage to get such high temperatures on 5750 and 5770? Close to 90C at load and 44-50 at idle..?! WOW!

 

[bhamx2]

I can't believe my 3870x2 is still outperforming some of these newer cards in these games, can't really justify upgrading yet.... unless the high end radeon's drop in price anytime soon

 

[RazberyBandit]

The silver lining here is SLI. With two GeForce GTS 450s rendering cooperatively, we’re seeing 190% of a single card’s performance consistently. If two GeForce GTS 450s run $260 or so, then you’re looking at a $40 premium over a single GeForce GTX 460 1 GB at $220. We’re not as excited as we were after comparing two GTX 460s to a single GTX 480. But still, SLI’s tremendous scaling potential remains a reason to keep two of these cards in mind for a future upgrade.

And yet the single GTX 460 would still leave an easy SLI double-up upgrade path. Where's the value potential lie then? Within a dead-end 2 x GTS 450 config, or a single GTX 460 1GB that should still be around in another year?

Answer: the GTX 460 1GB

 

[shin0bi272]

Id rather have a GIGABYTE Super Overclock Series gtx 470, personally. They redid the card from the pcb up, put 3 fans on it and oc'ed it 100mhz (some users have further OCed it up to 850mhz core). Thing runs quieter, with less power and less heat than a stock 470 (even while OC'ed 100mhz from the factory) but performs like a 480.

Best part is its $379 and free shipping! Well 349.99 right now on one of newegg's "sales".

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125338

 

[shin0bi272]

[citation][nom]luke904[/nom]the msrp of the 5850 is 289, not 250 5870-389[/citation]
newegg currently has the 5850 for 259.99 with 8 dollar shipping. The 5870 is 354 for the cheapest (but I think thats on one of newegg's patented "instant savings for the next 3 days then we're going to go back to the standard price without telling you when we are changing the price so unless you buy right now you'll end up paying more" sales). The next most expensive that isnt on "sale" is 364.99...

No thats not MSRP which stands for manufacturer's suggested retail price... it's the ACTUAL price that they are selling for. Hell the actual MSRP of the 5870 is 499.99 because thats what they debuted at.

 

[takeapieandrun]

You would think Nvidia would learn from the success of the GTX 460...

 

[Guest]

well, it is a disappointment

 

[scrumworks]

[citation][nom]dragonsqrrl[/nom]http://www.anandtech.com/show/3909 [...] nstream/17Overclocked to the max on air cooling, it looks like the GTS450 is capable of outperforming the HD5770, barely. But this is with clocks approaching 1GHz. Again, memory bandwidth is probably really holding this card back. According to Anandtech they weren't able to achieve much of a memory overclock, so bandwidth in the 60GB per sec range is probably the max you can expect.[/citation]

So they have got a hand picked sample from nvidia that overclocks unusually well. AMD can hand over those kinds of samples too to reviewers if they want.

 

[Googoo24]

Unfortunately, this card is a fail in my book. It's priced too closely to the 5770 (which is almost a year old!), yet loses to that card.

 

[hardcore_gamer]

I agree with Googoo..its a failure like the gf100..but the gf104 is a great architecture that really stands out

 

[Ciuy]

dont buy 450 unless your an idiot .

 

[tipoo]

Why no compute performance benchmarks? Thats one of Fermi's big selling points, isn't it?

 

[The_King]

So I guess the $140 some odd million loss was not enough for them. I think they hurting their image by releasing this and expecting people to buy it.

I'm sure someone will buy them out if this continues.....Intel

 

[glingo]

I'm disappointed on how expensive all new AMD/NVidia cards are. 15 months ago i bought a HD4770 for €90. I can't find any faster GPU's for that price today...

 

[Nintendork]

From the very release dare 4770 was an awesome bang for buck card even being the first test chip for the 40nm with all the production mess in TSMC.

 

[LORD_ORION]

Not a good card at this price.

Needs to be $109 or less.