Geforce GTS 450 appears on shelves

[rado992]

It appears that an Asus version of the GTS450 has popped up on bulgarian pricelists earlier than expected.

Specs are:
Graphic core: nVidia GTS 450
Manufacturing process: 40nm
Interfaces: PCI-E 2.0 x16
Outputs: DVI-I, HDMI
Volume and type of memory: 1GB DDR5 (128-bit)
Core frequency: 783Mhz
Frequency of shaders: 1566MHz
Memory frequency: 1800 MHz (effective 3600 Mhz)
Number of stream processors: 192
Supports DirectX version: 11.0
Supported OpenGL version: 4.1
Maximum energy consumption: <125 W
Other: CUDA parallel processing, GeForce PhysX

Source:
http://translate.google.com/translat...ml&sl=bg&tl=en

Comment!

IMO it's weaker than expected. I hoped for at least 256 SPs and 192bit memory bus, but nvidia decided differently, obviously. It's a very cool card, however. Tests by the guys at HardwareBG show that the card barely gets above 64°C in furmark and it does so fairly quietly.

Oh, BTW, the price was around 145 Euro before taxes before they hid it.