Palit GeForce GTS 450 Sonic Platinum

Palit GeForce GTS 450 Sonic Platinum

Much like the GTX 460, Palit offers a Sonic Platinum edition of this model graphics card as well. We received the final retail product and this one has some serious teeth alright. The PCB design is custom red and comes with a really silent cooler as our tests will demonstrate later on.

What is really interesting about the card are the amazingly high clock frequencies; this card my friends runs at a blazing 930 MHz on the graphics core, 1860 MHz on the shader processors and a cool 4000 MHz (effective) on the gDDR5 128-bit memory. That makes this card amongst the fastest available on the market and tested today. And knowing Palit, it will only cost you a tenner to fifteen bucks more in price. But for that money you get the highest factory overclock under full warranty.

When we look at connectivity we see that Palit has a wide mesh at the front for airflow, yet still they tucked away four connectors in the form of an HDMI, two DVI and a D-SUB (VGA) connector. We seriously like that for a somewhat budget card in this range.

With the Sonic Platinum edition Palit leads the pack along with ASUS on extremely high clock frequencies.

The card uses one 6-pin power connector and is obviously also equipped with just one SLI connector. It's a simply a small sexy card with a heap of performance (within its advertised class). You know that small kid from the movie Kick-Ass (Mindy Macready aka Hit-Girl)? She's the Palit card tested today.