Is not that often that we have complete specs about a future, unannounced, product such as NVIDIA's GTS 450 series of graphics cards, but thanks to a online store that listed the Asus GeForce GTS 450 DirectCU, a full two weeks before this GPU is launched, we know all there is to know about the future GTS 450.

Although this GPU drops the GTX name in favor of the GTS moniker, that was used for designating older GPU based graphics cards in the past (remember the GTS 250?), the GTS 460 will be built on top of NVIDIA's latest  Fermi architecture.

Of course that this has suffered some modifications, in order to enable a much smaller price for this chip, but at its hart is the same Fermi GF100 architecture.

Dubbed this time the GF106, this 40nm, DirectX 11 compatible GPU, will carry 192 CUDA cores, a GPU clock of 783 MHz, 128-bit memory interface and 1GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 3600MHz.

I have to admit that I am a bit disappointed by these specs since the GTX 460 proved to be such a balanced graphics card, I find it hard to believe that NVIDIA disabled three more Streaming Multiprocessors in the GTS 450, coming down to 4 and 192 CUDA cores (from 7 SM units and 336 CUDA cores in the GTX 460).

Further more, NVIDIA also cut the memory's bus width from 256-bit, in the 1GB GTX 460, to just 128-bit in the GTS 450.

Considering all of this changes, we should see an important drop in performance, one that is making me doubt the €176 price tag the Asus GeForce GTS 450 DirectCU was listed for is worth it, even if Asus used a custom cooling solution for this card. (via TCMagazine)

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