TOP ENGTS450 is an overclocked version of the recently announced GPU, nVidia GeForce GTS 450, intended for intermediate segment of the market. Asus offers this solution for discerning gamers and those who want a product that offers something more, than those with standard settings. To do this, the manufacturer has paid special attention in carrying out the cooling system and the choice of components.

The basic architecture is that Nvidia GF106, GF104 directly derived from, made with 40 nm manufacturing process. The CUDA Core 192 are integrated, much less the 336 Core GPU's next band, GeForce GTX 460. The structure of each search engine has been revised downward, to contain costs. The units are 16 ROPs, rather than 24 (always comparing GTS 450 and GTX 460) and the Texture Mapping Unit is 32.

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With this balance you can achieve a fill rate of 25.1 GTexel / s performance to ensure a good level of graphics with very complex.As the sisters and the whole family Nvidia Fermi, is guaranteed the support for DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1. The board under test is characterized by the presence of the SLI connector, which allows for dual-GPU graphics subsystems. Among the merits of the latest generation of Nvidia,

the ability to accelerate physics calculations with PhysX and intensive computing, using the CUDA architecture. For video playback of HD movies you can take advantage of the acceleration provided by Pure Video HD technology, which improves the quality and fluidity of the sequences MPEG, AVI, H.264 and VC-1. For those who want an immerse vision of games, movies and photos, you can match this card, the GeForce 3D Vision kit and enable the support extended by the 3D driver kit, now in version 260.99.