Geforce GTX460: Overclocking and 3DMark results

[Manicdan]

on the Inpia review, how is a 800Mhz 5830 consuming 60W less than a stock 5850 with both under full load:

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NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 460: The $200 King

''We've seen the GTX 460 lock horns with the 5850, and while the 5850 is undoubtedly the faster gaming card the $300 price point no longer makes as much sense as it once did with a $230 1GB GTX 460 below it. AMD either needs a 5840, or a price drop on the 5850 to bring its price more in line with its performance.

At the end of the day NVIDIA has created a very powerful card for a market that has been overlooked for most of this year, and right now they're setup to benefit from it. The GTX 460 is well priced, well performing, and cool running - 3 qualities we haven't been able to attribute all at once to an NVIDIA card in quite some time. With launches and pricing like the GTX 460, the competitive landscape that we enjoyed through 2008 and 2009 is finally taking shape once more, and we couldn't be happier.''











http://www.hardwareheaven.com/review...s-gtx-480.html



''The GF100 cards have four texture units per SM while the NVIDIA equipped the GF104 with eight TMUs per SM. This can and will lead to a massive increase in texture performance which will benefit older DX10 and DX9 games.''







Overclocking Results

GTX 460 1GB Final Clock Speeds

Graphics Clock: 827Mhz
Processor Clock: 1654Mhz
Memory Clock: 4220Mhz (QDR)

GTX 460 768MB Final Clock Speeds

Graphics Clock: 843Mhz
Processor Clock: 1686Mhz
Memory Clock: 4244Mhz (QDR)

Something else to consider is that at $220 US the GeForce GTX 460 1GB graphics card will be 27% cheaper than the $300 Radeon HD 5850, despite being just 7% slower on average. On average the GeForce GTX 460 1GB was 17% slower than the GeForce GTX 470, which is a fairly decent margin. However at $220 US the GeForce GTX 460 is 31% cheaper.

Overall, by redesigning the GeForce GTX 460 to remove the unnecessary bits, making it a more compact and efficient GPU, it appears that Nvidia has created the perfect mid-range graphic cards. We genuinely like the GeForce GTX 460 in either its 768MB or 1GB flavors, and prefer it to the ATI competition.

A Palit Geforce GTX 460 Sonic Platinum bateu a Radeon HD5850 na maioria dos testes, por U$50 a menos.

[Olivon]

NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 460: Part 2 - The Vendor Cards - AnandTech

930 MHz GPU for Asus with 1.062V. Not bad

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NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 460: Part 2 - The Vendor Cards - AnandTech

930 MHz GPU for Asus with 1.062V. Not bad

still cooler than a stock HD5850

[alcachofa]

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/795-...e-gtx-460.html

English version will follow this week.

[Olivon]

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/795-...e-gtx-460.html

English version will follow this week. Average scores through 12 games :

Can't believe how cold they run :

Ci-mer

Great review, as usual

[alcachofa]

Y'a pas de quoi

Definitely my favourite french site for reviews they don't seem to like hotlinking of their graphs though

[Dr_Swizz]

on the Inpia review, how is a 800Mhz 5830 consuming 60W less than a stock 5850 with both under full load:

I noticed that too and it simply doesn't add up. They must have mixed up the results or something.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szr41GsG2qA

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SLI performance: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/N...e_GTX_460_SLI/

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[matose]

Did you see that 2 x Geforce GTX 460 768MB SLI beats Geforce GTX 480 and is cheaper too: 3DMark, FC2, HAWX, RE5, DIRT 2, AvP, Unigine Heaven 2.1, Just Cause 2, STALKER: CoP.

Also, both Geforce GTX 460 OC-ed at 860 / 2300 beats the HD 5850 easily: Just Cause 2, AvP

Good job NVIDIA, now we're waiting for "Gemini"

Also a scaling test with GTX 460 OC on 10 different procesors you can find here

BTW, HD 5830 has a bigger TDP than HD 5850

[Taskforce]

I really want to like this card, but just don't see any significant improvement to upgrade from a 200 series just yet, however I'm curious if it will stream True-HD audio over the HDMI 1.4 port.

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91% of HD5970 performance for 64% of the price

[snoid_zero]

I really want to like this card, but just don't see any significant improvement to upgrade from a 200 series just yet, however I'm curious if it will stream True-HD audio over the HDMI 1.4 port.

It will but it is not supported in the initial shipping drivers and will be made available at a later unknown date.

The GTX 460 will offer full bitstreaming audio capabilities, something the GF100 GPU powering the other GTX 400 series cards could not do. This means that the GTX 460 will be able to bitstream DTS Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD along with the 8 channel LPCM audio capabilities supported by the previous GTX 400 series cards.

[Ket]

91% of HD5970 performance for 64% of the price

Uhm.. Thats TWO 460s vs. 1 5970 I dunno what prices are like there but here a 5970 costs about £470, two 460s cost about £400.

[NKrader]

nice

[NKrader]

^best reply ever..

[GoldenTiger]

One pair of stock-overclocked 810mhz core/4000mhz 256-bit memory 1GB GTX 460 cards coming in for $450 shipped after Bing CashBack for an SLI setup. One heck of a sweet deal!

[tajoh111]

Uhm.. Thats TWO 460s vs. 1 5970 I dunno what prices are like there but here a 5970 costs about £470, two 460s cost about £400.

Where is the price like that. Thats an abnormally low cost for a 5970 and an abnormally high cost for a gtx 460.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/produc...=56&subid=1830

Here a 1gb gtx cost 180 or 360 pounds for two vs 520 pounds for a 5970.

With only a ten percent performance delta, it doesn't justify anything greater than 100 pounds in price difference.

[xdan]

On Gainward GTX 460 1GB GLH( 800/1600/4000) it's posible to adjust GPU voltage, and most probably on Palit GTX 460 PLATINIUM(same clocks, same PCB, a little different cage cooler) because Gainward is a subvendor of Palit.
But all GTX 460 with ON NCP 5388 can adjust voltge with MSI Afterburner1.61 normaly.
Gigabyte 460OC 1gb can to.

[Johnny87au]

after checking out those screenshots wouldnt it be better to just go with 1x 5870, basically almost same price as 2x 460s, yet the 5870 gives better results and leaves more room incase you ever wanna add another card for crossfire..!?

[Picao84]

after checking out those screenshots wouldnt it be better to just go with 1x 5870, basically almost same price as 2x 460s, yet the 5870 gives better results and leaves more room incase you ever wanna add another card for crossfire..!?

5870 gives better results than GTX460 in SLI? where?

[Johnny87au]

5870 gives better results than GTX460 in SLI? where?

Actually retract that statement lol, big missup.. was reading it wrong..

[cold2010]

Palit GeForce GTX 460 1GB Sonic Platinum

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/339...ard/index.html