Despite its budget status, NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 supports SLI technology fully. Once we got our hands on the second GF106 based graphics card, we decided to check out its performance in a tandem with another GeForce GTS 450. Read the details in our new review!

With the recent announcement of its new GF106 graphics processor and the GeForce GTS 450 card based on it NVIDIA has finally got rid of outdated technologies and architectures in all of its gaming solutions. Forcing the good old GeForce 8 architecture into retirement, the new graphics card has proved to be highly successful. As our tests suggest, it is competitive to the Radeon HD 5770 and even occasionally to the Radeon HD 5830. That is an excellent performance for a $129 product and a serious claim to superiority in this price segment.

Like the more advanced Fermi solutions, the GeForce GTS 450 offers full support for NVIDIA SLI technology that allows combining several graphics cards into a single multi-GPU subsystem. Such configurations are not very popular unless in extremely fast gaming platforms that accommodate up to three GeForce GTX 480 or four Radeon HD 5870 cards. Negative factors like power consumption, which is very high, and noise, which is often unbearable if you don’t wear headphones, are not important for users of such platforms. They just want to have the highest speed possible whatever the price or other inconveniences may be. In some ways, these are just demo configurations highlighting the benefits of a particular graphics architecture rather than gaming computers for everyday use.

• READ MORE (Source): GeForce GTS 450 SLI: a Happy Pair – X-bit labs