nvidia gts 450 | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:50:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png nvidia gts 450 | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 GTS450 retail pricing exposed – KitGuru Exclusive https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/faith/gts450-retail-pricing-exposed-kitguru-exclusive/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/faith/gts450-retail-pricing-exposed-kitguru-exclusive/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:44:41 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=15596 Here at KitGuru headquarters, it's raining harder than an English summer. Information, that it. Just as we posted on the $30 price drop for the GTX460, we started to receive anonymous tip-offs on the street price for the GTS450. If you like to see that kind of thing exposed, read on. KitGuru has been telling …

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Here at KitGuru headquarters, it's raining harder than an English summer. Information, that it. Just as we posted on the $30 price drop for the GTX460, we started to receive anonymous tip-offs on the street price for the GTS450. If you like to see that kind of thing exposed, read on.

KitGuru has been telling you for ages that the launch price for the GTS450 will be in the £99 to £129 range.

We still stand by these figures for the weeks that follow the launch, but we're now able to offer some hard-and-fast price information of what the UK numbers will be.

Remember where you heard it first folks

The slower versions of the GTS450 will retail in the UK for £115 inc vat (possibly closer to £119 if some retailers are a little greedy and/or the reviews go well).

Faster versions of the card will be £129.

In the US, we're hearing that Newegg will go live at $129 and $149 for the two flavours.

For anyone who's not sure why the price disparity, try this link.

KitGuru says: That's it. We're drained, like a cow that's been milked too hard. Need to lay down and watch some X-factor.

Will the KitGuru audience be hitting the stores with a fistfull of GBP/USD? Let us know, below.

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GTS450 at £99 by 14th September? https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/faith/gts450-at-99-by-14th-september/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/faith/gts450-at-99-by-14th-september/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:17:38 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=10903 The nVidia GTS450 will not only be in UK stores by 14th September, it will also be available at the magical £99 mark. Sure, some of them will cost more, but we believe that nVidia wants the volume and it wants to kick AMD out of system builder SKUs. To do that, it needs to win …

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The nVidia GTS450 will not only be in UK stores by 14th September, it will also be available at the magical £99 mark. Sure, some of them will cost more, but we believe that nVidia wants the volume and it wants to kick AMD out of system builder SKUs. To do that, it needs to win comparative side-by-side reviews. With the GTX460 now down to £140, and the GTX460 fall out part (GTS455) to follow soon, there's not much space for the slower GTS450 to aim at. Can Jay Puri bend it like Beckham for the win?

While other sites step forward, ponder and then step back again – overcome with fear that they might be wrong – KitGuru puts on the concrete wellingtons of power and stamps its way to the front of the pack and hoist a prediction.

Armed with another in the series ‘Flags of our Predictions', we're happy to state (without fear or favour) that the nVidia GTS450 card will not only be available in stores on 14th September, it will also be available at £99 (that's about $149 in funny money).

KitGuru puts a marker in the ground. You'll get some kind of GTS450 at £99

As the crowd cheers “Get in the ring!“, you need to think carefully about what the GTS450 is  up against – from both AMD and nVidia.

While major online stores like Overclockers are selling top of the range, 1GB, Turbo Mode Radeon HD 5770 cards up to £147 (£124.99 ex vat), the vast majority of these DX11 products are closer to £119.

Will nVidia focus too much on top of the range 5770 cards ?

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While, at the same time, other vendors are already pushing 512MB versions of the Radeon HD 5770 on basic circuit boards with stock coolers – for just over £92 (£76.47).

If you like AA - 512MB won't help - but it is a 5770 core

The lower the price of the GTS450, the greater its chance of selling in volume. Right now, nVidia needs that volume. It would also be useful for TSMC.

Given that 512MB Asus HD 5770 cards are already well under £100, it will be interesting to see just how cheap the GTS450 cards will go by varying the memory options and cooling solutions.

In addition to saying that there will be a version at £99 or less, we're also prepared to put another prediction down. This time we'll say that the top selling GTS450 will be a 1GB version, with a better cooling solution, around £129.

KitGuru says: Anyone turning up to Multiplay's i40 with a GTS250 or less will find our latest revelation very interesting. What Jay Puri and his minions will want to know is “Just how many of the Multiplay faithful will have moved to GTS450 by the time i41 kicks off on 12th November?”.  Here's a question: Why would nVidia spec sheets be showing a 75w and a 150w version?  Let us know your theories!

Quickie below – full blown here in the forum.

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GTS450 – nVidia insider confirms KitGuru’s ‘in store’ prediction correct https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/faith/gts450-nvidia-insider-confirms-kitgurus-in-store-prediction-date-correct/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/faith/gts450-nvidia-insider-confirms-kitgurus-in-store-prediction-date-correct/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:24:42 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=10851 Everyone at KitGuru has to turn sideways to get through a lab door this morning. Has the building shrunk? No. Have the doorways become narrower? Nope. So what's the deal? Well, we planted another of the famous ‘Flags of our Predictions' a while back and, guess what, we seem to have nailed it!  Man, our heads …

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Everyone at KitGuru has to turn sideways to get through a lab door this morning. Has the building shrunk? No. Have the doorways become narrower? Nope. So what's the deal? Well, we planted another of the famous ‘Flags of our Predictions' a while back and, guess what, we seem to have nailed it!  Man, our heads are SOOOOO big this morning (ooh er missus).

nVidia struggled to get the first Fermi cards out. However, with Jen Hsun and the rest of the board whipping the engineering team all day and all of the night, productivity finally began in increase.

Slowly, but surely, smiles spread across the pale, sun-denied faces of the nVidia faithful who had been waiting since October 2006 for the dawn of a new generation of visual computing experience. However, the early efforts were seriously pricey. The GTX480 may well have been fastest and most complex GPU ever created, but at over £500 it was outside the reach of mere -mortal-wallets.  The GTX470 and GTX465 went some way to addressing that, but were still stratospheric – compared to the average spend on graphics cards (which is a lot closer to £100/$150).

Jay Puri, nVidia's Executive Vice President for Worldwide Sales has spent a lot of time analysing the market, looking at the movement between nVidia and AMD graphics products, and constantly checking with the engineering teams to see when the rest of the Fermi product range might be ready for deployment. This is important stuff. nVidia needs to compete across the board.

Jay Puri reads KitGuru every day. Surely.

Something that definitely put a smile on Jay's face was the news that nVidia's GTX460, the first card that promised Fermi for the masses, was finally ready to ship. But, even with all of the price drops, it is still around £150. A further price drop was needed for the market to really pick up and for Jay to do his ‘happy jig'.

At the same time, Jen Hsun looked at his share price, considered the words he wanted to use at the Q2 quarterly briefing and began lashing his scientists harder and harder. With Yahoo reporting that nVidia's share price had dropped from $18.50 at the start of the year to $8.94 at the time of writing – almost 50% of the company's value had disappeared. “Not good enough” said Jen Hsun.

Finally, his engineering team are responding.

Cue GTS450.

Here's the graphic we laid down several weeks ago – and we've had it confirmed that we're right.

GTS450
nVidia insiders confirm KitGuru is correct. GTS450 will be in store for 14th September. We rock.

Available in 2 distinct variations, the more expensive of the two will have a 192-bit memory interface, but the cheaper of the two will use just 128-bits to access some (unspecified amount of) GDDR5 memory.

Having competitively priced parts heading into Q3/4 will be massively important for nVidia.

The news that nVidia can finally compete in the ‘affordable DX11' segment, along with the 50% drop in share price, has meant that almost half of the analysts quoted by Yahoo are seeing light at the end of the tunnel and upgrading their assessment of Jen Hsun's stock.

KitGuru says: We would have posted this story earlier, but our heads are just so big we couldn't get into the KitGuru Lab area to start writing. The swelling has now gone down a bit, so here we are. KITGURU SAID GTS450 WOULD BE IN STORE FOR 14th SEPTEMBER AND INSIDERS HAVE CONFIRMED WE ARE CORRECT. Check back later for some price predictions.

Quick chat below, full verbal intercourse over in the KitGuru Forums.

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GF106 still not delivered to partners – nVidia GT440/GTS450 delays https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/faith/gf106-still-not-delivered-to-partners-nvidia-gt440gts450-delays/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/faith/gf106-still-not-delivered-to-partners-nvidia-gt440gts450-delays/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:42:40 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=9063 KitGuru has spoken with 3 different graphic card companies and none of them has any visibility on the new GF106 core parts that nVidia will market under the GT440 to GTX450 brands. Interesting, but what does it mean for technology buyers? Back at the start of May, KitGuru put its flag in the ground and …

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KitGuru has spoken with 3 different graphic card companies and none of them has any visibility on the new GF106 core parts that nVidia will market under the GT440 to GTX450 brands. Interesting, but what does it mean for technology buyers?

Back at the start of May, KitGuru put its flag in the ground and said that mainstream nVidia parts would begin to hit the market in July. Guess what? Our flag was well placed. KitGuru lovers can break out the knowing smile right about now. But what of the rest of the range ? The truly accessible products at truly accessible price points. We're ready to plant more flags.

GT440 and GTX450 will be in stores on 14th September with a strong option at £99

While it is possible to create an entire range of cards from a single chip, it's an expensive approach. The more intelligent thing is to create a part (like the GTX480 based on the GF102 design), and then use the fall-out parts (weaker in some way – whether by accident or design) to create yourself a range. With GF102, let's call those the GTX465 and GTX470.

The far more attractive (albeit slow-selling) GTX460 comes from a more refined GF104 design. As will the GTS455, although with a weaker/cheaper memory system.

These various designs have managed to create a set of DX11 cards that have not managed to limbo much under £150.

The GF106 design promises a proper, toe-to-toe war with AMD's mass market Radeons. Logically, the price points for these cards will be in the £75 to £150 range, probably with a strong focus on getting a killer part to market around £99.

The question is, when?

Product can take a week to get to shop shelves from the time it arrives with distributors like Jon Atherton and the chaps at Enta. Bulk shipments into those distributors come, literally, on a slow boat from China.  To get to that boat, properly packaged, branded, built and tested also takes time from the AIB (Add In Board) partner's production facilities.

We anticipate nVidia partners using a slightly faster mode of transport than this. Possibly bigger too. Maybe less red.

If nVidia delivered chips tomorrow and everything went super-smooth, then you'd still be unlikely to see the GT440/GTS450 in the shops before  Friday 3rd September.

Allow for a few delays and you are more likely to see volume on UK shelves around Tuesday 14th September. There might be a smattering before that date and the launch itself will of course be earlier, but sensible volume is expected (by us) at the start of the 2nd week in September.

If this timeline is correct, then the final push through to the 420 products (including the 50w Fermi – GT420) won't happen until AMD is ready to deploy its full refresh.

KitGuru says: If you've saved up £99 ($150) for an nVidia DX11 card, then you will need to wait a little longer before you can spend it. Enjoy your summer holidays and expect to see GT440/GTS450 in shops a while after everyone is back to school/work/play.

Care to share? Let us know in the KitGuru forums.

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