Thursday, June 24th 2010
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 Reference Design Pictured
Here are the first pictures of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 460 graphics card, an upper-mainstream model based on the company's new GF104 GPU which was pictured earlier. The pictures reveal the reference design card to be shorter than any of the GF100-based graphics cards (such as GTX 470, GTX 480), and compacted in many ways. The cooler is dual-slot, and instead of an air-channel that's draws air from the interior and blows it out from the rear, the cooler has a centrally-located fan right over the GPU. As expected from the older article, the GPU package indeed is rectangular in shape rather than square.
The PCB is black, though a green PCB cannot be written off given the product's positioning. There are traces for eight memory chips on the card (looking at the components on the reverse-side of the PCB), confirming a 256-bit wide memory interface, though six chips are occupied (indicating that for this SKU only, a 192-bit wide memory interface is used. There is only one SLI finger showing that it only supports 2-way SLI multi-GPU standard. Connectivity on the rear panel is consists of the usual 2x DVI-D and mini-HDMI. Power is drawn in by two 6-pin PCI-E power inputs. Other specifications include DirectX 11 compliance, 336 CUDA cores, 768 MB of 192-bit GDDR5 memory (or another SKU with 1 GB of 256-bit GDDR5 memory), and clock speeds of 675 MHz core, 1350 MHz shader (CUDA cores), and 900 MHz (or 3600 MHz effective) memory. The GTX 460 768 MB is expected to launch next month at a price of US $230.
Source:
PCinLife
The PCB is black, though a green PCB cannot be written off given the product's positioning. There are traces for eight memory chips on the card (looking at the components on the reverse-side of the PCB), confirming a 256-bit wide memory interface, though six chips are occupied (indicating that for this SKU only, a 192-bit wide memory interface is used. There is only one SLI finger showing that it only supports 2-way SLI multi-GPU standard. Connectivity on the rear panel is consists of the usual 2x DVI-D and mini-HDMI. Power is drawn in by two 6-pin PCI-E power inputs. Other specifications include DirectX 11 compliance, 336 CUDA cores, 768 MB of 192-bit GDDR5 memory (or another SKU with 1 GB of 256-bit GDDR5 memory), and clock speeds of 675 MHz core, 1350 MHz shader (CUDA cores), and 900 MHz (or 3600 MHz effective) memory. The GTX 460 768 MB is expected to launch next month at a price of US $230.
63 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 Reference Design Pictured
1. HD 5770 can be had for $150
2. the power consumption its a lot a lower even after Oced (and we know that people that use this kind of card doesn't about PSU and they usually have crappy PSU)
3. lower temperature
4. and IF this thing SUPPOSED to have performance between HD 5830 and HD 5770 then the different would be just lower than 10 FPS
so if NVdia didn't lower the price to $150-$170 then i don't see it can compete HD 5770
but im saving up to buy a 5830 or 5850 till then.
even if i get 20fps or over at max settings im happy.
and i just upgraded to Q8400 OCed to 3.00GHZ. i hope a quad core helps in future games regardless.
sadly many people say Q8400 is bad because it has low cache. but if an application is made to use 4 cores, even the slowest quad core would be faster than the fastest dual core just because of the 2 extra cores.
already many games utilize 4 cores fully. such as The Risen, GTA 4, Shattered Horizon, Just Cause2, and some others.
a quad core helps in those games regardless. am i wrong?
btw i doubt you can MAX Crysis 2 with 8800 GTX at any reasolution,
as i said, as long as i get 20fps maxed out im very happy. im not picky about frame rate.
so far i can play any games maxed out. even though in some demanding games i dont get a constant 30fps but low fps dont bother me.
they should have learnt something from their mistake.
the reason people pirate is that the game is too demanding so therefore not worth buying.
they will face piracy and low sales if their game is too demanding and is made only for a handful of high end users. BIG MISTAKE.
But let's not go off-topic, and sorry for this post, but I'm just fed up of the anti-Crysis crap.
*lower in relation to Crysis' max setting, making it equal to the max settings from the rest of games.
crysis 1 isnt yet playable on max settings. so we should wait for another 10 years to play at on max settings?
this is just stupid.
but luckily there is only 1 stupid company like that and that is Crytek.
It's not Crytek's fault if GPU development has slowed down so much. It's taken 4 years to release 2 true generations* and it's been just a ~50% improvement with each new generation, instead of the 100% increase we were all used to. When Crytek was developing Crysis they were thinking about a -until then- normal evolution and by now they were expecting about a performance level where a GTX480 would be a mainstream/performance part. Also by the time that Crysis was released the GTX2xx and HD4xxx cards should have been out, instead of the 8800GT/HD3xxx.
*yes! your card has 4 years. Mine which is already 3 years old too is not faster than yours, and it was high-end when I bought it. I don't know how long have you been playing PC games, but try taking a 2002 card and playing any graphically stunning 2005 game. Best of luck, and that's 3 years not 4. FYI it took as many or more GPU generations to play Unreal maxed out, or Doom3, or many many others and even Half-Life1/2. The difference is that at that time we had a card every year and the new ones were twice as fast. More so it was usual for the new midrange card to surpass the 1 year old high-end card. i.e 6600GT vs FX59xx/9700/9800 Pro, 7600GT vs 6800 Ultra... And now? The best deal on midrange is HD5770 which costs more than previous generation high end cards and is significantly slower. And let's not talk about previous gen either...
EDIT: Until my current card I have owned whichever was the fastest card on every single generation (sometimes having to buy 2 cards in same year) and I did so, because that was the only way to play MOST games at max settings. Now with my 3 year old card I can play every game except 2-3 at max settings. It's not Crysis that asks for too much, it's the all other watered down crappy console ports which have changed the landscape.
a 5770 is slow and yet expensive for its performance. i dont know if that would be the case for 460 or not.
but 5850 is a high end card and not mainstream and expensive.
in here where i live a 5850 is $500 at least and a 5770 is $250 at least. and im not interested in 5770.
but the question is that a 5850 is worth buying at $500 or $400???????? thats alot of money just for a video card.
i still like PC gaming, but the high cost of upgrading has been an issue for me as for the mainstream gamers.
and maybe this high cost is what will destroy the PC gaming eventually.
Many of the tech retailers in my country don't import directly from China or India but they are forced to import the items from distributors in Miami, so what could be a simple business from China to X country, has been corrupted with many large distributors in between gaining their juicy margins, then that is why we are offered a GTX285 for $475 or a $500 5850. So for that reason I prefer buying my hadware on internet and making the duty payments myself (I avoid using Fedex, UPS and such cause they charge a lot for their duty services).
PC gaming won't die as long as the biggest game market in the world (US) receives the better HW prices.
so maybe we can buy those counter-feited video cards at much lower price???
if Nvidia and ATI dont care about their budget and mainstream customers then why should we care about them???
their goal is to keep milking their customers. i wont let them to abuse me like this and take money out of me like this.