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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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3DMark Vantage

3DMark Vantage

3DMark Vantage is the new industry standard PC gaming performance benchmark from Futuremark, newly designed for Windows Vista and DirectX10. It includes two new graphics tests, two new CPU tests, several new feature tests, and support for the latest hardware. 3DMark Vantage is based on a completely new rendering engine, developed specifically to take full advantage of DirectX10, the new graphics API from Microsoft.

3DMark Vantage

The Extreme settings were used for testing, so a resolution of 1920x1200 was used.

3DMark Vantage Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: The ASUS ENGTS450 DirectCU TOP and the EVGA GeForce GTS 450 FTW have a difference of 9 points in the overall and GPU 3DMark Vantage score; that is a .17% difference. The MSI N450GTS Cyclone 1GD5 was 6.6% behind while the reference NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 was 17% behind. When we ran FutureMark 3DMark Vantage and the pair of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450's in SLI we saw ~91% improvement in both overall and GPU Scores.

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Review Index
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