NVIDIA GeForce GTS 430, GTS 440 and GTS 450 specifications leaked

Later this evening benchmark results of the GeForce GTX 480 will start flooding this web, but yesterday German tech site 3D Center published an article with lots of details of upcoming DirectX 11 graphics cards based on the GF104, a more affordable derivative of Fermi that is expected to be available this Summer.

The GF104 GPU reportedly features 256 shader processors, 32 ROPS, and a 256-bit GDDR5 memory bus. There will be three cards based on this chip; the GeForce GTS 430, GeForce GTS 440 and GeForce GTS 450.

Here's a brief overview of the expected specifications of each card:

	GeForce GTS 430	GeForce GTS 440	GeForce GTS 450
Shaders	192	256	256
ROPs	24	32	32
TMUs	48	64	64
Raster engines	2	2	2
Memory bus	192-bit	256-bit	256-bit
GPU frequency	580MHz?	580MHz?	725MHz
Shader frequency	1200MHz?	1200MHz?	1500MHz
Memory frequency	1440MHz?	1440MHz?	1800MHz
Price	130-150EUR	160-180EUR	200-230EUR
Performance level	~ Radeon HD 5770	Faster than Radeon HD 5770	Faster than Radeon HD 5830