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With the release of the GTX 460 which received a glowing review on KitGuru, Nvidia are due to release a new series of DX11 cards, specifically models which will go head to head with lower end ATi boards such as the excellent HD5770. Turkish site Donanim Haber posted some details about the GTS 450 which is apparently due for release at the end of August.
Donanim Haber says that the card will have a GF106 graphics processor, 1GB of GDDR5 memory and will be built around a 128 bit memory bus. It is common among enthusiast circles to shudder at the mere mention of 128bits, but with GDDR5 it is possible to eleviate bandwidth constraints by clocking it high. With the memory sitting at 1.2ghz for instance it can translate to around 77GB/s which is more than enough for this specific market.
Pricing is obviously guess work right now but figures being mentioned on many rumour sites for the GTS 450 and 455 place them firmly into HD5770 territory, which makes sense as nVidia already have a HD5830 beater out already with the GTX460.
More information as we get it but we hope these sell better than reports which KitGuru received of first week GTX 460 sales in the UK days ago.
KitGuru says: Is this the card you are waiting for? a possible HD5770 beater?
This card will be particularly interesting as this is the biggest market share for sales, that and the lower end around £100. Most enthusiasts think the 300 quid range is the important price point — its not !
If they do with this what they did with the GTX460, it will be a winner, but im still surprised at poor sales of GTX460.
Who cares, im more interested in ATI’s next range of cards. 🙂
By the time nvidia finish this range ATI will be on the next series of cards. love it !
This seems so far behind ATI on a time scale, what is it 8 months now? why on earth is it taking them so long to even get this stuff released? seems insane to me how slow these releases are. GTX460 is selling slow? why would that be surprising KitGuru? the card is good yes, but most people wanting to move, already did and are holding off now for an early 2011 purchase.