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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 SLI Video Card Review w/ ASUS, EVGA & MSI
| Manufacturer: | NVIDIA |
| Product: | GeForce GTS 450 |
| Date: | Sun, Sep 12, 2010 - 11:00 PM |
| Written By: | Nathan Kirsch - |
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. A sequel to the award-winning 1998 video game StarCraft, the game was released worldwide on July 27, 2010. It is split into three installments: the base game with the subtitle Wings of Liberty, and two upcoming expansion packs, Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty has had a successful launch, selling three million copies worldwide in less than a month.
The game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty has no internal benchmarking tools built into the game engine, so we recorded a scene and played it back at normal speed and measured performance with FRAPS. The screen capture above shows the system settings that we were using for StarCraft II. Notice we are running the graphics quality and textures set to Ultra and maxed out everything in the menu. We did not manually enable AA in the drivers though, as we wanted to keep testing simple and consistent to the choices offered in the games settings menus.
Benchmark Results: There is a pattern emerging in our testing today. The EVGA GeForce GTS 450 FTW is consistently leading our pack of GeForce GTS 450's. Although, the ASUS ENGTS450 DirectCU TOP is consistently nipping at its heels with minimal margins. In the case of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty the margin is only 1.4% at 1280x1024 and 1.2% at 1920x1200. The ASUS ENGTS450 DirectCU TOP does have a slightly higher overclock on the core than the EVGA GeForce GTS 450 FTW, 925MHz vs. 920MHz. What is most likely giving the EVGA GeForce GTS 450 the edge over the ASUS counterpart is the memory speeds. EVGA has pushed the memory slightly higher than ASUS with an additional 25MHz (100MHz effective). The MSI N450GTS Cyclone 1GD5 has been sitting comfortably in front of the reference NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450, though it has not been overclocked as far as the EVGA or the ASUS which will explain the performance differences.
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Page 1 - GeForce GTS 450 Brings NVIDIA DX11 to $129
Page 2 - A Closer Look At The GeForce GTS450 Page 3 - ASUS, EVGA and MSI GTS 450 Video Cards Page 4 - The New NVIDIA R260 Series Drivers Page 5 - The Test System Page 6 - Aliens vs. Predator Page 7 - Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY Page 8 - Just Cause 2 Page 9 - Metro 2033 Page 10 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Page 11 - StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Page 12 - 3DMark Vantage Page 13 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11 Page 14 - FurMark 1.8.2 Page 15 - Power Consumption Page 16 - Temperature Testing Page 17 - GeForce GTS 450 1GB Overclocking Page 18 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions |
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