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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53585

Benchmark Reviews take a look at the GeForce GTS 450 SLI scaling performance. Since a single $129 GeForce GTS 450 can outperform an AMD Radeon HD 5750 and match the 5770, what kind of performance do you get from two GTS 450\'s for $258? Check it out!

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psolord · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 12:09 am Post subject:

That's a bit old matey.

Was released on GTS 450 launch day. Yeah nice scaling though. Most mainstream cards scale well.

psolord · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 12:45 am Post subject:

Actually I was arguing with a guy in B3D about this.

I was saying that GTS 450 SLI, is a very viable option compared to the 5870, since they offer essentially the same performance, while costing a lot less (around 100$).

Still the 450s SLI consume 50W more at load, but even that, is not so much. It's not like you hold onto them for life anyway. The money you'd save from the purchase, would be more than enough to counter a tad higher electricity bills.

psolord · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 12:50 am Post subject:

PS The fans do not exhaust the temperature out of the case. Where did they see that? Truth be told, this site has always been a little biased in favor of Nvidia, but that's OK. Still a nice review.

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2652

SLi/CF is meant for hi resolution gaming, since that is the purpose for what is the whole thing meant for. Hi resolution is defined from generation to generation. 3 years ago it was 1980x1200, today it's 2560x1900 or some eyefinity/ nvidia surround. Sli or CF is NOT menat to replace a single graphic board in rendering HD like resolutions. 4870x2 vs 4870 was not an excellent performer or scaler until you crank up AA to 8x or resolution to 1920+ with AA. That is what is sli for.

450 SLi is meant to confuse "n00bs" into thinking that is some sort of a type of a graphic adapter that they can get for 100$, they mostly don't realise that SLi/CF involves TWO graphic cards of that type. Say what you will but even gtx 260 will devastate Sli 450s in HD resolutions with 4xAA turned on in most of actual gameplay scenarios.

I got hooked up once on 7300gt SLi being able to outperform even 7900gt, and it was so on 1280x1024 in 3dmark 2005, but god was I wrong when I compared them in quake 4 1680x1050 with 4xAA. Not only 7800gt was faster, but it was so lame on 2x7300gt that it was simply a waste of money.

sli/cf is for hi res gaming with AA on. For mainstream resolutions single gpu will always give more bang for the buck. Wink

PS. Don't forget that it all depends on the actual test levels. I had less than 40fps in BFBC2 in some areas with highly OCed 5850 in 1680x1050 and 2xAA...

psolord · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 1:53 pm Post subject:

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2652

I didn't say it's worthless, quite the opposite, I said it makes sense just in cases such as your example, except that I was talking about two weaker cards competing against one stronger (well, I didn't write that post very well in terms of dividing the content hehe Smile

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also, 5850 is not a middle end/low end card, quite the contrary. In the main article (that we are commenting) you can see that 2x450s cant outperform single 5850...

PS. As for my previous post, I meant 2x7300 vs 7800, 7900 was a typo the first time. In benchmarks and in most games they did outperform 7800, but only in lower resolutions. When actual width of the bus and amount of memory come into play, those 2x7300 simply become almost just like a single one. With that comparison I meant to point out that weak cards in SLi are "worthless" compared to giving 20-30$ more to get only ONE but higher class card. Same goes for CF of course.