NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 SLI Video Card Review w/ ASUS, EVGA & MSI

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Manufacturer:	NVIDIA
Product:	GeForce GTS 450
Date:	Sun, Sep 12, 2010 - 11:00 PM
Written By:	Nathan Kirsch -
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FurMark 1.8.2

FurMark is a very intensive OpenGL benchmark that uses fur rendering algorithms to measure the performance of the graphics card. Fur rendering is especially adapted to overheat the GPU and that's why FurMark is also a perfect stability and stress test tool (also called GPU burner) for the graphics card.

The benchmark was rendered in full screen mode with no AA enabled on both video cards.

Furmark Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: We run Furmark to heat up the cards and to find their peak power consumption numbers. While we had the utility open we ran a quick benchmark at 1280x1024 and 1920x1200 to see how the cards do on this OpenGL benchmark. The EVGA GeForce GTS 450 and the ASUS ENGTS450 DirectCU TOP were both ~17% faster than the reference NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450. The MSI N450GTS Cyclone was 11% faster than the reference card. SLI scaling in Furmark 1.8.2 was impressive; we saw a 97.1% improvement at 1920x1200 and a 97.8% improvement at 1280x1024!

Next Page - Power Consumption

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

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