EXPreview and IT168 have released a review of the new NVidia GeForce GTS450, currently unannounced. If the information is to be believes, it comes with 192 cores and 1GB of RAM, and will be priced at only $99.
It sports the new fermi chip, the GF104 to be exact, but the benchmarks don’t look all that impressive. It varies based on the application, but seems to fall somewhere between the GTS250 and GTX260+, although sometimes significantly worse than both. From the exPreview story:
According to the test, GTS 450 delivers an amazing overclocking performance. When the voltage was adjusted to 1162mv, and frequencies improved to 1002/2004/4000MHz, the card scored P12502 by 3DMark Vantage, showing an improvement of 22%.
Though GTS 450 was beated by the GTX 260+, it still outperformed Radeon HD 5750.
GTS 450 is designed to take the place of GTS 250, targeting the mainstream graphics market. Actually lots of graphics card manufacturers have secretly started shipping GTS 450, so the card is expected to hit retail very soon with the official release.
Personally, I find the benchmarks suspect. The performance really should be better IMO, and their HD5750 comparison seems a bit slow.
