3 reviews

nVidia GeForce GTX 460

$230.00 Released July, 2010

The Pros:Affordable price point for mainstream gamers. Great performance for the dollar. Fermi - fully DirectX 11 compliant, the best GPGPU / tessellation performance.

The Cons:No equivalent to ATI's Eyefinity (>2 monitors on a single GFX card). Doesn't completely eclipse $200 cards from the DX10 era - meaning an upgrade may not be justified for those with previous generation cards, DX11 is not yet such an important consideration. 1 GB memory is not exactly enough for today games.

The nVidia GeForce GTX 460 is a graphics card module released into the Fermi family in summer 2010 a few months after the launch of the flagship GTX 480 and GTC 470. It’s particulary a less expensive, less complicated and more applicable unit, especially when compared to the “Tank” GTX 480.

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Featured are 336 cores, 7 tessellators, and 56 texture mapping units (all lower than the 480), but a 90W savings in power consumption. Note that there are two versions available: one with a 256-bit memory bus with 1024MB of GDDR5 RAM, and one with a 192-bit memory bus with 768MB of memory. Both are short (8.25”) and host a dual-slot cooling fan and heat-sink with dwo Dual-Link DVI outputs and a single mini-HDMI output. Both are also extremely quiet and designed specially for overclockers (675-800MHz).

Features

Fermi Family Graphics Card
Less Expensive Counterpart to GTX 480/470
Power Saving / Energy Efficient
Microsft DirectX 11 Support (Shader Model 5.0)
NVidia PhysX Technology
Nvidia 3D Vision Ready
Nvidia 3D Vision Surround Ready
Nvidia Cuda Technology
Nvidia SLI Technology
32x Anti-Aliasing Technology
Nvidia PureVideo HD Technology
PCI Express 2.0 Support
Dual-Link DVI Support
HDMI 1.4a Support

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Pros

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affordable price point for mainstream gamers
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great performance for the dollar
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Fermi - fully DirectX 11 compliant, the best GPGPU / tessellation performance
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supports the wide array of Nvidia technologies: CUDA, PhysX, SLI and 3D Vision
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now beating ATI for price to performance (as of August 2010)
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capable of playing all the latest games on high resolutions (1680 or 1920) at high detail settings
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easy to overclock and see noticeable performance improvement without touching the voltage
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runs as cool and quiet as the best competition from ATI
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GF104 GPU is not simply a cut down GF100, actually significantly redesigned
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performance headroom with better drivers coming out on a consistent basis
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Can reach near a stock GTX 470 speeds with much less heat, noise & power consumption.
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Best card from the GTX 400 series. Doesn't overheat like its bigger siblings GTX 470 & GTX 480.
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Can reach near a stock GTX 470 speeds with much less heat, noise & power consumption.

Cons

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no equivalent to ATI's Eyefinity (>2 monitors on a single GFX card)
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doesn't completely eclipse $200 cards from the DX10 era - meaning an upgrade may not be justified for those with previous generation cards, DX11 is not yet such an important consideration
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1 GB memory is not exactly enough for today games.
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Can reach near a stock GTX 470 speeds with much less heat, noise & power consumption.