NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 - Review

NVIDIA is one of the biggest brand in the world of graphics since 1999 till today. NVIDIA announces its latest GeForce GTS 450 on 13 sept 2010 and looking forward again to capture large audience. This GPU is made for gaming freaks of the world. The new chip in the card is codenamed the GF106, which is based on NVIDIA's Fermi architecture. The chip consist of 1.7 billion transistors. Although chip having one Graphics Processing Cluster, but power can be measured by 4 Streaming Multiprocessor segments consisting of 48 CUDA cores each. There are 192 CUDA cores in total.

There are also 32 texture units and 16 ROPs. GeForce GTS 450 cards also feature a 128-bit memory interface.
The GTS 450 GPU is a version of the GF106 chip, but with only two ROP partitions and two memory interface partitions enabled. GeForce GTS 450 gives awesome performance with its DX11,enabling more detailed characters in games and gives amazing environments with outstanding visuals and speed. Upcoming games likes Civilization V, Hawx 2 and Dead Rising 2 will be a treat to play with this amazing card in your PC.

The makers said "Our goal with the retail version of GTS 450 is to design the best price/performance product at an aggressive MSRP while offering the highly valued 1GB memory size. The 128-bit memory configuration provides the best price/performance for these design goals.” "The GeForce GTS 450 makes huge strides in expanding DX11 capability to the masses," said Sid Meier,Director of Creative Development, Firaxis Games. "Civilization V plays beautifully on the GTS 450 and looks even more amazing with 3D Vision technology."