Continuing the Success Story – Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 Graphics Card

 

Nevertheless, this forced Nvidia to go back to the drawing board and come up with a card that could do without the negative features of its predecessors, offer excellent gaming quality and perhaps also make things a little competitive by cutting down on the price. Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 is the solution that matches all these requirements. While the Nvidia GTX 465 was supposed to be a watered-down version of GTX 480, the GTX 460 is a graphics card that has been designed from scratch and delivers high-end performance for a great price.

 

 

The GeForce GTX 460 graphic cards may seem small at just 8.25" but continues to have the heat-sink and cooling fan in a dual slot. Further, it has the standard single mini-HDMI-output and two Dual-link DVI outputs. Let us now see what the GeForce GTX 460 is made up of from the inside. It uses a new core called the GF104 based on the Fermi architecture and uses the advanced 40nm processor. The GF104 features 1.95 billion transistors and has only two graphics processing clusters. This is more than enough to accommodate 336 CUDA cores, 7 streaming multiprocessors, 56 texture units and 32 (1 GB) Raster Operations. Since the die size is smaller, it costs less to make, reducing the final price; uses less power and generates less heat.

 

 

There is no doubt that with a price tag of just R2,500, this DX11 graphics card is going to attract a lot of passionate gamers. Most players are looking at graphics card that can offer a great gaming experience but for a reasonable price and at R2,500, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 might just be hitting the sweet spot. And there is no doubt about the performing ability of the card. When AA is enabled, Fermi ensures that the GTX 460 can continue to play high-end games at the same quality without seeing any drop in the frame rates. Even at very high loads, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 continues to deliver without taking up too much power and is only reasonably audible.

 

 

Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 1 GB not only stacks up nicely against ATI Radeon HD 5850 but it helps build a nice range of cards from Nvidia who now offer gamers a wider collection to choose from. The GTX 460 certainly brings Nvidia back into the game.

 

Graphics card	GeForce GTX 460 768MB	GeForce GTX 460 1024MB	GeForce GTX 465 1024MB
Graphics Processing Clusters	2	2	3
Streaming Multiprocessors	7	7	11
Shader processor	336	336	352
Texture Units	56	56	44
ROPs	24	32	32
Core Clock	675 MHz	675 MHz	607 MHz
Shader Clock	1350 MHz	1350 MHz	1215 MHz
Memory Data rate	3600 MHz	3600 MHz	3200 MHz
Graphics Memory	768MB GDDR5	1024MB GDDR5	1024MB GDDR5
Memory interface	192-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory bandwidth	86.4 GB/s	115.2 GB/s	102.6 GB/S
Texture Fillrate Bilinear	37.8 GigaTexels/sec	37.8 GigaTexels/sec	26.7 GigaTexels/sec
Fab node	40nm	40nm	40nm
TDP	150 Watts	160 Watts	200 Watts

 

If you are interested in top quality gaming PCs, you should certainly take a look at the amazing range of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 Based Gaming PCs. We offers some of the most powerful, yet low-cost gaming PCs in the market today.