Fermi on the cheap: GTX 460 out now

[steve_rogers42]

hmm, ben reading a bit over at anandtech, seems the 768mb version is not the one to buy, where as the 1gb version of the 460 packs the punch, enough to impress the guys over there to give it a straight up recommendation...

to the haters, its sitting price wise between the 5830 and the 5850, performance wise its 5850 in some tests and worse off in others, but the big heads up is the scalability from the femi gpu's, as proven by looking at anand's sli 460 bench's...



yea, easily going to retire the 8800GT's with an OC'd version of the 1gb card. the price point and the features are enough to sway me... but then, its gotta duke it out against the upgrade to x58... hmmm. decisions...

btw, pccg has gainward 460's retailing for 350 last i checked.

[Yurtles]

Upgrade my video card? Why? My 8800-something-something (I never remember the lettery bits ) is coming up on 2 and a half years old now and I'm still playing games without significantly cutting the graphics back.
And I know for a fact I won't need to touch it until the next generation of consoles come out either. Hooray for consoles freeing me from the upgrade cycle!

Wow, re-reading that I've come to the understanding that I'm really, really cheap..

[Snootle]

Wow, re-reading that I've come to the understanding that I'm really, really cheap..

It's okay, I am using a 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP Graphics Accelerator.

[sertyg]

Playing Descent 2 in an S3 virge all the way, baby!

[Shinanigans]

Not a bad card nVidia have landed themselves there. Finally, some mid-range competition for ATi!

As Steve said, make sure you take the 1GB version over the 768MB version, as the former uses a 256-bit memory bus, whilst the latter supports a 192-bit memory bus.

GTX460 1GB $300
5850 1GB $350

With ATi's response price-drop, there's not a big margin in either performance or price between the two but perhaps nVidia may be able to drop further after a few weeks? The 5830 doesn't even get a look in anymore @ $270

I'm just wondering wtf nVidia were doing with the GTX465, as it's the '5' model but it's older, slower and more expensive... uhh...

[Capt DropBear]

I'd suggest taking a read of the Anandtech reviews of the GTX460's before completely writing off the 768mb models over the 1gb ones. Some of the overclocked 768mbs ones (eg the EVGA one) actually out perform the reference 1gb model, surprisingly.

[jivemaster]

Just picked one up since reading this news story, and I must say that I am impressed with this card so far. Has definitely exceeded my expectations. Have used the 1gb gtx460 to replace my old factory-oc 8800gt. It has been a massive jump, and brought a new lease of life to my Q6600 core2quad that has served me well for 2.5 years.

My version of choice was the Gainward gtx460 1GB Golden Sample, factory overclocked for $309. Surprisingly quieter than my 8800gt too.

I am reading that this is basically the next 8800gt, in terms of its performance to dollar ratio makes it perfect for anyone wanting to play the latest games on higher settings with a very steady and acceptable fps.

Been playing Crysis Warhead in full 1080p with 30-40fps on gamer, and using a custom autoconfig, you can definitely bring in many of the pretty effects for practically no fps hit.

BFBC2 did not benefit though, apart from making things a little prettier, because it's obviously cpu intensive.

[Capt DropBear]

Just picked one up since reading this news story, and I must say that I am impressed with this card so far. Has definitely exceeded my expectations. Have used the 1gb gtx460 to replace my old factory-oc 8800gt. It has been a massive jump, and brought a new lease of life to my Q6600 core2quad that has served me well for 2.5 years.

My version of choice was the Gainward gtx460 1GB Golden Sample, factory overclocked for $309. Surprisingly quieter than my 8800gt too.

I am reading that this is basically the next 8800gt, in terms of its performance to dollar ratio makes it perfect for anyone wanting to play the latest games on higher settings with a very steady and acceptable fps.

Been playing Crysis Warhead in full 1080p with 30-40fps on gamer, and using a custom autoconfig, you can definitely bring in many of the pretty effects for practically no fps hit.

BFBC2 did not benefit though, apart from making things a little prettier, because it's obviously cpu intensive.

Good to hear you're getting positive results - may I ask what OS you're running (and hence, which DirectX version)? Reason: Having been steered away from the $400 5850's at literally the 11th hour by these new $300 GTX460's, I've placed an order for an OC'ed 768mb model - but I'm only running WinXP, hence limited to DX9... so I know I won't see some of the benefits until a Win7 upgrade comes on the cards.

[finklesteinn]

1 of my 8800gtx died last night boo hoo without sli now my machine is soooo sub standard and am playing bfbc2 in almost all low instead of high settings(yep it made that much difference )

so looks like i might pick up 2 of these for sli instead of going for the 480..... or maybe i should wait and get 2x480 sli....

missues keeps telling me wait till we get to china in a month and buy stuff there as i have found some much cheaper stuff. (missus is chinese and female, the ultimate bargain hunter lols ) but saving $120 on each gtx480 and saving $170 on the cpu and $50 on the mobo and ram, its definatley worth it, cos the saving will go towards a SSD and a new g27 for the release of rfator2 and gt5

[sertyg]

Doesn't anyone remember the S3 Virge? Most people couldn't understand the concept of processing being offloaded to the video card.
I went S3Virge, Voodoo, TNT2, GF 200 MX, GF5950, 7200GS, 8800GT and now Dual GTS250's.
Still waiting to see something fun enough to push this so I am thinking of skipping the 400 series unless they start to drop in price and blow my mind.