After a flurry of leaks following the launch of the GTX 460, there hasn't been much new info on NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce GTS 450. Now, though, it seems like the final piece of the puzzle has been revealed, as German site heise online has discovered the shader count on the unreleased mid-range GPU.
The GF106-based card will reportedly feature 4 streaming multiprocessors (SMs) containing 48 shaders each for a total of 192 Cuda cores. This compares to the GTX 460's 336 shaders, and is slightly fewer than we were expecting.
The core will also reportedly contain 32 texture-units, down from the GTX 460s 56 and GTX 465s 44.
The new information also confirms the clock speeds of 783MHz for the core and 1,566MHz for the shaders. The cards are expected to ship with 1GB GDDR5 running at 3,608MHz connected to the core via a 128-bit bus.
According to the source, the card will trade blows with AMD's Radeon 5770, depending on the game. That means we could see the GTS450 launching for somewhere around the £130 mark when released, which is suspected to be sometime in mid-September.
With a little over half of the shader cores of the GTX460 - but higher clock speeds - it will be interesting to see how this card competes against both its older sibling and AMD's comparable offerings.
