OC3D Review: nVidia GeForce GTX 460 768MB GDDR5 Review

[silenthill]

Ok ALX these are the results at 1920 x 1200 0xAA 16xAF, DirectX 11, Maximum Detail with a the HD 5970 average FPS was 110 and with a single 480 average FPS was 59 and with a single 460 average FPS was 44 and with two 460 in SLI the average FPS was 66. hope your satisfied now because it was a hell of a job and the NVIDIA driver just wasn't stable but STALKER: Call of Pripyat just looks amazing in DX11 Maximum Detail also we did have a issue with the 460's in SLI the screen goes blank for a few seconds now and again I really don't know what that is because I don't have that issue with my 480's in SLI.

 

[AMDFTW]

like its been said before,SLi is driver dependant,the 400 series drivers need to mature for all cards to be running correct

 

[alienware]

Excellent stuff.. Thanks for that SH.

It confirms what I thought though. As I say, Crysis is heavily loaded toward Nvidia and that's why pretty much every benchmark where they put ATI cards against Nvidia cards uses it. It basically makes the Nvidia cards look really great.

Hilarious how a pair of 460s actually beat a 480. Not saying much for Nvidia's flagship card is it?

As for the blank screen thing? quite possibly the bridge connector. I had so much crap out of mine when I ran the 8600s in SLI. Constant artifacts, blank screen and crashing. In the end I cleaned the cards contacts with alcohol and that sorted it. Common problem with SLI apparently.

 

[silenthill]

Great review, well done Mul, great price too from CPL at scan and overclockers the cheapest is 152£ seams that nvidia have come up with actually something worth buying but ATI will definitely bring their prices down on certain cards to compete with this card so don’t be hasty guys.

Moring guys, I’ve just been taking a look at the retail prices for ATI cards and look at this the HD 5970 is 446£ that’s 50£ lower than last week and the HD 5870 is 284£ also the HD 5850 199£ that almost the price of some 1G 460’s, remember what I said about ATI will counter attack when the 460 was released.

 

[sunjoo]

nicely done review

 

[I Hunta x]

Aye its a counter attack with pricing but might need to be dropped a little more to be able to compete with the 460 tbh, i know quite a few people who have been using nvid cards and would have been happy to pay a bit more for a nvid card than an equal gaming performance ati card because of the much better folding performance.

alot better folding with pretty good fps > then > bad folding with slightly better fps > then > saving say £25 for for the same fps and bad folding - is the order most people who are both both avid gamers and folders would agree with tbh. (only time i could see if being difference is if they already had a top notch dedicated folding rig set up and wanted to make a pure bang for buck gaming machine so they didnt have to interupt any of the cards in the dedicated machine)

id be happy to pay say £25 more on a nvidia card than an ati card if it gave the same gaming performance just for the extra folding grunt as in all honesty £25 is very little if your trying to get good gaming and folding performance.

Should be picking one of these up either on thurs or in 2-3 weeks depending on how the bills are this week.

 

[silenthill]

You do have a good point X; I didn’t put folding in my calculations.

 

[I Hunta x]

yeah its not a huge % of the market realy, quite a large % of folders are just people who use there main/only card when the pc's on and there not gaming tbh.

id be pretty tempted to get a 2nd 460 tbh but id need a new mobo + new psu as my current board is crossfire only and my psu only has a 6+2 and a 6

 

[silenthill]

yeah its not a huge % of the market realy, quite a large % of folders are just people who use there main/only card when the pc's on and there not gaming tbh.

id be pretty tempted to get a 2nd 460 tbh but id need a new mobo + new psu as my current board is crossfire only and my psu only has a 6+2 and a 6

A lot of people have AMD M/B and SLI is not a option that’s why I recommended to wait for the 490 which is a dual GPU 460 it will be an easy upgrade option.

 

[w3bbo]

Nice review Tom. I would personally prefer some competitor values in the graphs other than vs OC but I also appreciate the time it takes to do the tests!

Keep up the great work m8.

 

[alienware]

There are loads of AMD boards with SLI mate. I have one (Crosshair 2). The problem is they use the Nforce chipsets and they aren't very good when compared to the 780/785 etc.

He has a 775 C2D though, finding a half decent SLI board should be cheap and easy. I sold a 680i eVGA about 6 months back with an E4500 in it for £65. Sure it didn't support all the latest quads and wasn't the greatest overclocker in the world but hey, tri SLI capable man.

 

[silenthill]

Yes but most of them are old and don’t support DD3, what I meant is that there are a lot of people who have the new AMD M/B like the (870,880.890,770.760,790,785) and would like to try the NVIDIA cards but unfortunately don’t have the SLI option.

 

[AMDFTW]

just got my 460 (1gb)

how did you check the CUDA cores,as mine is showing the same amount in GPU-Z

 

[Mul.]

I couldn't find an application that read stream processor count correctly. The performance itself was enough to indicate that over 224 were active!

Nice review Tom. I would personally prefer some competitor values in the graphs other than vs OC but I also appreciate the time it takes to do the tests!

Keep up the great work m8.

Hey W3bbo, unfortunately I didn't have a comparable graphics card to hand. If I had, I would have most certainly offered some comparisons

 

[AMDFTW]

oryt thats annoying as there is no way to fins out

also did you find that the core and shader was linked in afterburner and also that you could not unlink it,its hurting mu overclock

 

[thestepster]

its linked in everything mate