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Release Date | Sep 13th, 2010 |
Generation | GeForce 400 |
Outputs | 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI |
Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin |
Power Consumption | 106 W |
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Base Clock Speed | 783 MHz |
Memory Clock Speed | 902 MHz |
Pixel Fillrate | 6. 264 GPixel/s |
Texture Fillrate | 25.06 GTexel/s |
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Memory Size | 1 GB |
Memory Type | GDDR5 |
Memory Bus | 128-bit |
Memory Bandwidth | 57.73 GB/s |
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Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 review
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A great gaming graphics card that’s now more affordable
This gaming-oriented card hit 32fps and 52fps with 4x AA running at very playable speeds
TechRadar Verdict
The GTS 450 is now at a bargain price, but similarly priced AMD cards represent a better choice
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Decent gaming chops
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The Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 is in serious gamers’ graphics card territory, without hitting the big prices.
Nvidia doesn’t have a great lineup in the budget segment of cards, and anything lower than this here GeForce GTS 450 isn’t really worth a look for those with any passing interest in frame rates. This venerable card does have some gaming chops to offer, and for the £81 cost it’s a tough card to argue against.
The version we’ve tested is the standard reference version directly from Nvidia. That means it has no extras, no funky third-party cooling solution and definitely no factory overclock.
We’ve taken the price from the cheapest GTS 450 we’ve found available, and that’s the version from Palit. It does come with a slightly different cooler, but the GPU itself is in reference trim.
Immediately you can feel the step up in performance terms with this gaming-oriented card. With DiRT 3 and Far Cry 2 we saw the card hit 32fps and 52fps respectively, and that’s with 4x AA running at very playable speeds.
The Shogun 2 and Metro 2033 scores, though, are much lower, with the Shogun 2 score especially highlighting Nvidia’s performance weakness with this title.
But for £80-odd you can’t complain. You could drop this into any system and be hitting gaming speeds across most modern titles at the modest 1680 x 1050 resolution.
Should you not mind taking the performance hit, this card will also give you access to PhysX extras in game and 3D Vision, if you so wish. Realistically, the GF 106 GPU isn’t powerful enough to really do either technology justice and still maintain playable frame rates. So in essence is more a check-box feature than a real selling point.
It’s a well-engineered GPU, though, and stays relatively cool, even with the reference cooler at 100 per cent load. We measured it topping out at around 67C when it was constantly stressed at 100 per cent. It is, though, a rather power-hungry beast, pushing the system to 220W under load.
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Thermal performance
100% Load: Degrees Centigrade: Lower is better
Nvidia GTS 450: 67
Sapphire HD 5670 Ultimate: 80
DirectX 11 tessellation performance (2,560 x 1,600)
Heaven 2.5 Frames Per Second: Higher is better
Nvidia GTS 450: 8.7
Sapphire HD 5670 Ultimate: 4.6
DirectX 11 gaming performance (1,920 x 1,080)
Shogun 2 Frames Per Second: Higher is better
Nvidia GTS 450: 17
Sapphire HD 5670 Ultimate: 14
Power performance
100% Load Watts: Lower is better
Nvidia GTS 450: 220
Sapphire HD 5670 Ultimate: 135
DirectX 11 gaming performance (1,680 x 1,050)
DiRT 3 Frames Per Second: Higher is better
Nvidia GTS 450: 32
Sapphire HD 5670 Ultimate: 21
DirectX 11 gaming performance (1,680 x 1,050)
Metro 2033 Frames Per Second: Higher is better
Nvidia GTS 450: 11
Sapphire HD 5670 Ultimate: 8
DirectX 10 gaming performance (1,680 x 1,050)
Just Cause 2 Frames Per Second: Higher is better
Nvidia GTS 450: 28
Sapphire HD 5670 Ultimate: 18
DirectX 10 gaming performance (1,680 x 1,050)
Far Cry 2 Frames Per Second: Higher is better
Nvidia GTS 450: 52
Sapphire HD 5670 Ultimate: 31
Nvidia win?
At this price both the Sapphire HD 5670 Ultimate and Sapphire HD 6670 Ultimate are quite simply blown out of the gaming paddling pool – neither can come close to this Nvidia card’s performance.
Unfortunately that doesn’t equate to a price point win for the green company, as AMD’s lineup of budget GPUs still has more tricks up its sleeve.
The big problem for the Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 is the fact the HD 5770 is still on the market for the same price, and that last-gen DirectX11 GPU is still one of the best budget cards around.
Sadly then, for Nvidia at least, the GTS 450 still has no place to call its home. It’s head and shoulders above the lower-end AMD cards, but there are still more impressive options available to us consumers for the same price.
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Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 graphics card
- Edelmark rating 6.4 out of 10;
- Release date: September, 2010;
- Video card memory size: 1024 MB;
- Video memory type: GDDR5;
- GPU frequency: 830 MHz.
Specifications Nvidia GeForce GTS 450
GPU
GPU manufacturer | Nvidia |
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GPU name | GF106 |
Platform | Desktop |
Clock frequency | 830MHz |
Two processors | No |
Reference card | Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 783MHz 1GB |
Performance
Number of shaders | 192 |
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TMU | 32 |
Number of ROPs | 16 |
Pixel fill rate | 6. 64 GPixel/s |
Texture Fill Rate | 26.56 GTexel/s |
Number of floating point operations (FLOPS) | 637.4GFLOPS |
Memory
Memory clock | 902MHz |
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Effective memory frequency | 3.608 MHz |
Memory bus width | 128bit |
Video memory size | 1.024MB |
Memory type | GDDR5 |
Memory bandwidth | 57.73 GB/s |
Energy consumption
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Standby noise level | 39.9 dB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Noise level under load | 39.9dB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Standby power consumption | 111W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power consumption under load | 261W |
GeForce GTS 450 | no data |
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GeForce GT 730 | 6.3 out of 10 |
GeForce GT 630 | 6.2 out of 10 |
Graphics
Tested with: T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor, Fire Strike Factor.
GeForce GTS 450 | 6.4 out of 10 |
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GeForce GT 730 | 5.4 out of 10 |
GeForce GT 630 | 5.8 out of 10 |
Computing power
Tests used: Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation, Particle Simulation, Video Composition, Bitcoin Mining.
GeForce GTS 450 | 5.5 out of 10 |
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GeForce GT 730 | 5.4 out of 10 |
GeForce GT 630 | 5.2 out of 10 |
Output per W
Tested on: Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite, Crysis 2, Crysis 3, Dirt3, FarCry 3, Hitman: Absolution, Metro: Last Light, Thief, Alien: Isolation, Anno 2070, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive , Diablo III, Dirt Rally, Dragon Age: Inquisition, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, FIFA 15, FIFA 16, GRID Autosport, Grand Theft Auto V, Sleeping Dogs, Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor, Fire Strike Factor, Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation, Particle Simulation, Video Composition, Bitcoin Mining, TDP.
GeForce GTS 450 | 7.5 out of 10 |
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GeForce GT 730 | 8.0 out of 10 |
GeForce GT 630 | 7.7 out of 10 |
Price-Performance
Tested on: Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite, Crysis 2, Crysis 3, Dirt3, FarCry 3, Hitman: Absolution, Metro: Last Light, Thief, Alien: Isolation, Anno 2070, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Diablo III, Dirt Rally, Dragon Age: Inquisition, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, FIFA 15, FIFA 16, GRID Autosport, Grand Theft Auto V, Sleeping Dogs, Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor, Fire Strike Factor, Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation, Particle Simulation, Video Composition, Bitcoin Mining, Best new price.
GeForce GTS 450 | no data |
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GeForce GT 730 | no data |
GeForce GT 630 | no data |
Noise and Power
Tested on: TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption, Idle Noise Level, Load Noise Level.
GeForce GTS 450 | 8.4 out of 10 |
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GeForce GT 730 | 9.8 out of 10 |
GeForce GT 630 | 9.6 out of 10 |
Overall graphics card rating
GeForce GTS 450 | 6.4 out of 10 |
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GeForce GT 730 | 6.4 out of 10 |
GeForce GT 630 | 6.4 out of 10 |
Benchmarks GeForce GTS 450
Bitcoin Mining
GeForce GTS 450 | 38.68 mHash/s |
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GeForce GT 630 | 19.97 mHash/s |
GeForce GT 730 | 36.92 mHash/s |
Face Recognition
GeForce GTS 450 | 12.97 mPixels/s |
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GeForce GT 630 | 4.89 mPixels/s |
GeForce GT 730 | 10.87 mPixels/s |
Ocean Surface Modeling
GeForce GTS 450 | 302. 51 frames/s |
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GeForce GT 730 | 166.83 frames/s |
GeForce GT 630 | 203.51 frames/s |
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0)
GeForce GTS 450 | 13.110.13 |
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GeForce GT 730 | 2,843.39 |
GeForce GT 630 | no data |
Manhattan test (GFXBench 3.0)
GeForce GTS 450 | 9,387.64 |
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GeForce GT 730 | 1,686.88 |
GeForce GT 630 | no data |
Test Fire Strike
GeForce GTS 450 | 13.4 |
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GeForce GT 630 | 9.87 |
GeForce GT 730 | 11.11 |
Sky Diver test
GeForce GTS 450 | 115.77 |
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GeForce GT 630 | 100.02 |
GeForce GT 730 | 102. 34 |
Cloud Gate test
GeForce GTS 450 | 11.92 |
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GeForce GT 730 | 9.48 |
GeForce GT 630 | 9.76 |
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Reviews of the GeForce GTS 450
Everything was good and clearly shown, but I overdid it with thermal paste. It must be applied in a thin layer. And the thermal paste on the border is also superfluous, it is not intended for heat transfer, it is enough to apply it to the stone itself in the center.
I am satisfied with this card 2011 I bought it now 2017 it still works yes on the bottoms but all these games pull yes with Doom 4 there were problems but put everything on the bottoms and it worked (GTS450 128BIT 1GB DDR5)
someone tell me it makes sense to take for somewhere 3500 rubles nvidia gf gtx 650 2gb gddr3 256bit from aerocool from China to play GTA 5 at medium settings at least 45-50 fps
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The Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 was announced on 2010-09-13 and later went on sale at a suggested price of 129 . At the heart of the graphics accelerator chip: GF106-250-KA-A1. Built on the Fermi architecture using a 40 nm process technology. The gaming performance is 0.8 out of 100 in our tests.
The stock TDP is 106W.
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8 | Reflections: 12 | 16 |
3 | Parallax: 7 | 10 |
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Features
Basic
Manufacturer | Nvidia |
ArchitectureCode name for the microarchitecture generation. | Fermi |
Chip manufacturer A company that manufactures chips in its own factory. | TSMC |
Process The manufacturing process, measured in nanometers. The smaller the technical process, the more perfect the technology, the lower the heat dissipation and power consumption. | 40 nm |
Number of transistors | 1,000,000 |
Interface PCI Express version. It is backward compatible, which allows you to install a PCIe 4.0 video card in a motherboard with a PCIe 3.0 slot. Sometimes manufacturers cut the number of lanes, for example AMD in the RX 6500 XT, which results in performance drops of up to 10-40%, depending on the game, when running an outdated 3.0-only motherboard. | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
TDPthermal Design Power — an indicator that determines heat dissipation in standard operation. | 106 W. |
Power supply Recommended power supply capacity for trouble-free operation. Please note that there are other consumers in the system, and power supplies vary in quality and efficiency. Also, operating at the power limit of the PSU, the fan may be too noisy. | 300 W. |
Video Processor Specifications
Shader frequency | 1566MHz |
Video memory specifications
Video memory frequency Depends on the type of soldered chips. | 9024 |
Type of video memory Each new generation provides a twofold increase in throughput while reducing voltage and heat dissipation. | GDDR5 |
Bus width Once upon a time, a relevant characteristic, since the performance of mid-budget cards was greatly reduced, lowering the bus width. Now there are very fast GPUs with a small bus, but very high-frequency memory chips, which gives sufficient bandwidth. | 128bit |
Bandwidth bandwidth — an important characteristic, obtained by a simple formula bandwidth = bus width * memory frequency. | 57.73 GB/s |
Supported Technologies
DirectX High Level API. Windows users can check their version by typing «dxdiag» in the start menu search. We recommend buying graphics accelerators that support the latest version at the time of purchase, so as not to face the fact that a new game does not start in a couple of years. | 12 (11_0) |
OpenGL Platform and language independent programming interface. Used not only for applications, but also in some great games, such as SOMA. | 4.6 |
OpenCL Used to speed up calculations. For example, Photoshop uses OpenCL acceleration for Edge Refinement, Smart Sharpen, and Blur Gallery. | 1.1 |
Vulkan A low-level, cross-platform API that gives developers direct access and control over the graphics accelerator. Some games allow you to choose between DirectX and Vulkan, with the latter performing better. | N/A |
CUDA A technology heavily promoted by Nvidia. Allows parallel computing and requires special CUDA cores. In our opinion, this is a noticeable advantage of Nvidia over AMD. | 2.1 |
Shader Model Shader version is important if you want to play modern games but buy an old graphics card. | 5.1 |
Detailed specifications
SMStreaming Multiprocessors — streaming multiprocessors. | 4 |
Shading Units | 192 |
TMUsTexture mapping unit — graphics card units that apply textures to polygons. | 32 |
ROPsRender output units — rasterization units. Their number and performance directly affects the fill rate. | 16 |
L1 Cache | 64 KB (per SM) |
L2 Cache | 256KB |
Theoretical performance
Pixel Rate | 6.264 GPixel/s |
Texture Rate | 25.06 GTexel/s |
FP32 (float) performance | 601.3 GFLOPS |
FP64 (double) performance | 50.11 GFLOPS (1:12) |
The rest
Presentation datePresentation in the media, official information. | 2010-09-13 |
Generation | GeForce 400 |
GPU | GF106-250-KA-A1 |
Video outputs | 2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1. |