NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450: The Mainstream-Bound Fermi Family

NVIDIA is all powered up for the GPU game. Up now: Another sibling in the 400 series, GTS 450.
Two months after the Fermi architecture tweaks that pushed GTX 460, powered by GF104, to tramp AMD’s Radeon HD 5830 in the market, Nvidia takes a dive into the mainstream with the GF106-powered GTS 450. Smaller, cheaper, easier to manufacture–what does this little engine actually deliver?
Quietly entering the mobile market, the GF106 has been presumed to happen after seeing the GF104. The latter was theoretically prepared for a cut-down with its 384 CUDA cores overlaying 2 GPCs and a four-set ROPs as well as memory controllers. But the GF106 is more than what we expected: it is more than just a half of its larger predecessor.
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