• ZOTAC GTS 450 Amp Edition

    ZOTAC GTS 450 Amp Edition

    Roydon Cerejo, Sep 20, 2010 1255 hrs IST

    An overclocked GTS 450 that performs well

    Fan is silent on load, factory overclocked, good set of connectors, compact size, good performance, CUDA, PhysX and HDMI 1.4 ready

    Does not completely outperform the HD5770, expensive compared to a stock HD5770, memory chips aren't cooled

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After dominating the high-end segment with their GTX460, Nvidia is back with a bang with the new mid-range graphics card called the GTS 450. You could think of this as a GTS 250 replacement since the pricing will be close to it. The GTS 450 uses a new core called the GF106, which is like a stripped down version of the GTX 460, in order to reduce the manufacturing cost. A lot has been cut down like the memory bus, shaders and ROPs to make this card cheaper to produce.



The ZOTAC card that we have today is an Amp Edition that comes with pretty good clock speeds. The core clock is boosted to 873MHz (stock is 783MHz) and the memory is bumped up to 4GHz (stock is 3.6GHz). ZOTAC has stayed true to its packaging and we get the same designed box. The packaging is nice and compact as the card itself isn't very big. At the price it's supposed to launch, the GTS 450 will take on the HD5770 and the HD5750. So let's see if it can deliver.    



Bundle

  • Instruction manual
  • 6-pin to molex power cable
  • Driver CD
  • DVI to VGA adapter



Along with the driver CD, ZOTAC also bundles trial versions of GPGPU software like vReveal, nero Vision Extra, cooliris, xbmc and kylo. This is a good thing as it helps people become aware of the different GPU accelerated software out there, so they can make better use of the graphics card when not gaming.


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Vinod
,Mumbai, on Oct 31, 2010 07:01 PM
bought Zotac GTS 450 amp edition for 8.8k!!!!
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Sutirtho
,Navi Mumbai, on Sep 20, 2010 01:33 PM
Thanks, Roydon... for now 5770 is the one :)
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Jack
,Bangkok, on Sep 23, 2010 07:30 PM
I own a rev 2 cooler of the xfx 5770 and was very satisfied (sold my old 9600 gt because of no horizontal span in Win vsita and above)...Ati catalyst and eyefinity is much better than nvidia stuffs. Nvidia technology is lagging behind ATI :) 5770 is for now in this price range agreed
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dude
,kochi, on Sep 20, 2010 02:01 PM
Funny thing about the GTS 450 is that when you buy one, you will always be thinking that you could have plonked down a few grand more and got the much better performing 460 instead. Personally, I think the 450's pricing is way too high. Only if it were around 8K or 7.5K would this deserve any consideration for purchase.
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