Nvidia’s relentless effort to push the Fermi architecture into more affordable territory continues with the introduction of the GeForce GTS 450. Not content to just use an older chip with disabled units, the GTS 450 is another actual new chip.Looking at our feature chart, you can see the GTS 450 runs its core at higher clocks than its more upscale siblings, but memory width, texture units, ROPs and other areas render it less powerful overall. The Palit GeForce GTS 450 Sonic Platinum does the Nvidia reference design one better by upping the core clock to 930MHz, the shader clock to 1,860MHz and the memory clock to 1,000MHz. Bear in mind that our experience with overclocked graphics cards is that you only see slight gains, even with aggressive overclocks. Still, it’s good to see the GTS 450 offering that much headroom. Palit equips its Platinum card with a custom cooler, to keep everything running cool and quiet.