Nvidia GeForce GTS 450: Hello GF106, Farewell G92

[sumarongi]

It seems like the biggest problem everyone has is that the G92 platform was so exceptional that Nvidia can't top it. It's like someone hits a home run once, then we expect them to hit a home run every time they come to bat!

This puts a decent mainstream part in place with DX11 and serves Nvidia well. The prices will drop by the spring.

 

[RazberyBandit]

It may have dropped an nVIDIA alternative into the mainstream mix, but I tend to think it showed up far too late to have any real impact at all. Well, perhaps other than to the purely nVIDIA faithful who held out since late last year with the hope something new to combat the ATI 5700-series would be released.

 

[candle_86]

man what a waste, guess im sticking to my GTS250 till they have something in the price range that is actully better lol

 

[skorchi]

"At zero hour, Tom Vaughan, director of business development at CyberLink, swooped in to save the day with an early build of the PowerDVD 10 update that will be available to customers soon."

What (long-awaited) build# of PDVD 10 is this?


I am answering my own question.

Build# 2113 is now available for download as an upgrade patch on the Cyberlink update page.

 

[liveonc]

This is why I'm so against launching High-End first. Mid-Range will always be deemed as to too little for too much. If they launched Mid-Range first, they could work up & down, milking the cow twice going up, offering better driver & hardware support, & charging as much as they can get away with (due to improved performances additionally enhanced by more mature drivers & software). Going down is also done much easier & there will also be leftovers from the Mid-Range as well as being able to stock up on the finer stuff for Mid-Range take2.

 

[shin0bi272]

[citation][nom]madass[/nom]I still dont get it. The 450 has more cores than a 250. 192 vs 128. It ought to be 4870ish fast. Same with the 460. 356 cores. Should be about as fast as a 5850. It just barely manages to ebat the GTX275. With 240 cores. Is the new architecture actually worse than the old ones core for core, clock for clock? I dont get it....[/citation]

There's a memory issue with the new architecture I forget what it is but essentially its hamstringing the chip.

 

[Aneesh@4GHz]

But still weak comparing to other cards in same range!

 

[dEAne]

$100 dollars lower or AMD will grab the market.

 

[Guest]

this card shoud be lunched as first dx11 card now thi is crap

 

[blibba]

My 9800GTX+ is gunna rot before I replace it.

 

[Guest]

Like most reviews,this one does a good job if you only want to compare performance and performance per watt for graphics. Some of us want to see information on PhysX performance or on CUDA performance such as running Folding@home. You didn't mention either one.

 

[gammatnt]

thanks for the review, i just ordered this card from newegg. it is $95 after rebate. it is the MSI modle.

 

[Guest]

"upgrading from a GeForce GTS 250 to a GTS 450"

How can a 450 ever be better than 250?

 

[Guest]

the GTS450 isnt bad but seems outdated when compared to other GPU's i have one and certainly get good results in games yet to match the GTX460 1gb i would need 2 GTS450's yet the one i have is at 2gb memory it still lacks the cuda cores at 192 but with dual i should beat the texture fill rate of the GTX460.