GeForce GTX 460

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Introduction :

There are many types of PC gamers. Some enjoy less elaborate titles graphically and others enjoy squeezing your graphics to more complex and multi-systems the most demanding games. Between the two extremes we place most of us who use the computer with all sorts of games and enjoy also elaborate graphics and the latest graphics technologies. Products like the new GTX 460 Allows us to most of us enjoy the full potential of the latest graphics generations of chips at the same time keep feet on the ground our adjusted with investment. The GeForce 460 is the first generation of processors Fermi GF104. This generation, cut benefits, costs also enter the possibility of renewed and other applications through a more sustainable consumption. It is best to keep the important part of architecture, like a lot of engines CUDA, or the techniques specifically designed for today's DirectX 11.

That is, the GTX 460 is a shortened version of the GTX 480 while retaining all the main features only lost some "punch" in the implementation. It is a chip that also works much more loose and give integrators a much better chance of differentiation from their competition through their own models to incorporate serial overclocking dissipation or more elaborate designs. In the GTX 460 we find two different versions. Its performance is very similar to changes as the amount of memory, 768MB and 1GB, respectively, due to the architecture of control memory GF104 this differentiation we find that there are some less capacity memory bus for 768MB model and therefore slightly less memory bandwidth resulting in any loss in performance especially at high resolutions and with demanding filters screen. It also affects the number of units ROPs (Raster Operations units) also impact directly on the screen filling capacity of the card.

The GTX 460 will find first class benefits including support for DirectX 11, including as interesting as the techniques for integrating units engaged in July. Of course, this board supports CUDA, with its star performance for games like PhysX, and supports installation in configurations of up to two cards using SLI. Among the most significant benefits that can support all the modern connections: dual-link DVI, DisplayPort and HDMI 1.4ay is also capable of generating digital sound (7.1 with the main standards of sound) directly without audio and bridges Previous generations of Nvidia.

Its other added benefits, especially by updating the Nvidia ForceWare drivers are supported by Bluray-3D, 3D games and also conventional 3D widescreen monitors up to three simultaneous.

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Gainward GeForce GTX 460 Golden Sample :

If there is a manufacturer specializing in designing their own PCB to improve or enhance products cheaper Nvidia Gainward this is certainly. The GTX is a chip that gives the integrator the potential to offer customers a compact, efficient, powerful and versatile, Gainward has not missed an opportunity.

In its initial portfolio GTX 460 offers three different products and prices with distinct benefits. First a 768MB model as a model of entry and the heavyweights in the form of release "Golden Sample (GS)" and Golden Sample Goes Like Hell (GS- GLH ) comprising both 1GB of GDDR5 memory also factory overclocked in the case of model GS is 700MHz for the GPU while memory holds a 3.6GHz frequency QDR. GS- GLH model is the most advanced GPU with a frequency of 800MHz and a working memory GB 4GHz QDR. The model "Golden Sample" is what we have been lucky enough to analyze in detail and I can say about this card, which surprised its power for its size. It is a truly compact card surprised not only by a high power, which then can see, but because potential to adapt to computer configurations compact HTPC type, being even more compact than a Radeon 5770.

This model features a redesigned PCB Gainward, more compact even than the reference model, and has two power connections PEG rate of six contacts. Requires both, like all the GTX 460 which we find in the market. It is made of a double- slot format with a central fan and a very large dissipation system through heatpipes. It is a card with character, it is to keep their frequencies above the benchmark, and a higher overclocking potential, so when the processing load to demonstrate its momentum with a sound quite remarkable. If I say that the growth has been quite successful in controlling fan rotation frequency, and that Windows will not have any hassle thanks to its wide range of work.

The connectivity of this small card is one of the things that surprised it. In its only 20cm in length find two dual-link DVI, DisplayPort and a connection HDMI 1.4a. Yet I must clarify that we can only use simultaneously up to three of the four connectors and in the case of three one must always be the DisplayPort connector.

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Gainward GeForce GTX 460 Golden Sample :

If there is a manufacturer specializing in designing their own PCB to improve or enhance products cheaper Nvidia Gainward this is certainly. The GTX is a chip that gives the integrator the potential to offer customers a compact, efficient, powerful and versatile, Gainward has not missed an opportunity.

In its initial portfolio GTX 460 offers three different products and prices with distinct benefits. First a 768MB model as a model of entry and the heavyweights in the form of release "Golden Sample (GS)" and Golden Sample Goes Like Hell (GS- GLH ) comprising both 1GB of GDDR5 memory also factory overclocked in the case of model GS is 700MHz for the GPU while memory holds a 3.6GHz frequency QDR. GS- GLH model is the most advanced GPU with a frequency of 800MHz and a working memory GB 4GHz QDR. The model "Golden Sample" is what we have been lucky enough to analyze in detail and I can say about this card, which surprised its power for its size. It is a truly compact card surprised not only by a high power, which then can see, but because potential to adapt to computer configurations compact HTPC type, being even more compact than a Radeon 5770.

This model features a redesigned PCB Gainward, more compact even than the reference model, and has two power connections PEG rate of six contacts. Requires both, like all the GTX 460 which we find in the market. It is made of a double- slot format with a central fan and a very large dissipation system through heatpipes. It is a card with character, it is to keep their frequencies above the benchmark, and a higher overclocking potential, so when the processing load to demonstrate its momentum with a sound quite remarkable. If I say that the growth has been quite successful in controlling fan rotation frequency, and that Windows will not have any hassle thanks to its wide range of work.

The connectivity of this small card is one of the things that surprised it. In its only 20cm in length find two dual-link DVI, DisplayPort and a connection HDMI 1.4a. Yet I must clarify that we can only use simultaneously up to three of the four connectors and in the case of three one must always be the DisplayPort connector.

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Overclocking :

Personally I believe that with graphics options that exist in the market and the possibilities of using two or more graphics cards simultaneously, the overclocking became meaningless in the world of computer graphics for quite some time. It is surely a personal opinion and that you share many do not remove the GTX 460 is promoted and sold as a graphics chip with a lot of hidden potential.

All manufacturers, or nearly all, sell factory overclocked cards, as we have seen in Gainward, although frequencies depend on the manufacturer's factory guaranteed end the truth is that what Nvidia's own data in a 800MHz for the GPU, compared the 675MHz of the reference model, which often catapults the CUDA engine up to 1600MHz. The working frequency is the highest of the range "Fermi" Nvidia and achieved with much lower levels of consumption.

Comparative analysis :

By price the direct rival of the GTX 460 a day this review is the Radeon 5830. AMD card that has passed unnoticed by the success of other models, especially the Radeon 5850 which is priced a little higher but also a much brighter performance. We talked about price € 229 for models of Geforce GTX 460 1GB which is the direct competitor of the Radeon 5830. Apart from the evidence you shall see if this new model emphasizes that Nvidia is much more compact and that consumption is very similar in both models.

Machine for the comparison :

• Processor: Core i7 - 870 to 4GHz.
• Motherboard: Maximus Formula III .
• Memory: 4GB ( 2x2GB DDR3) GSkill Rip- jaws .
• Hard disk: 40GB Intel X25 -V .
• Power Supply : PC Power & Cooling Silencer 910W .
• Drivers : Nvidia ForceWare 258.96 and Catalyst AMD 10.6.

3DMark 2006. DX9

3DMark Vantage. DX10

Heaven Benchmark 2.1. DX11 . 1920x1200. Very High Quality

Alien Vs Predator. DX11 . 1920x1200, 4x AF, 1x FSAA, High quality

Resident Evil 5. DX10. 1920x1200. FSAA 4x , AF 16x. Highest Quality

Dawn Of War 2. DX10. 1920x1200. 16x AF, 4x FSAA, very high quality

Colin McRae. Dirt 2. DX11. 1920x1200. AF 16x FSAA 8X, Ultra Quality

It is clear that in view of these results, where the Radeon 5830 can hardly defend themselves in a couple of test, AMD is forced to reduce the price of one product that could overshadow the GTX 460 is definitely the Radeon 5850. This model if it can compete as equals with the Geforce GTX 470 and would embarrass the new Nvidia graphics. One thing that undoubtedly will benefit all users with ever more attractive prices.

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Conclusion :

Finally, Nvidia has a real winner DX11 product. Its previous engines surprised by its power but now impresses with its great balance between all the elements essential for a graphics card is a success in sales. It has the power, formatted, consumption is fairly tight and has scalability to deliver outstanding performance. A product that will delight those players who want the best but know well spend their money and a new opportunity to create more compact computers and powerful gaming. The new GTX 460 makes obsolete even some of its older models, especially the GTX 465, which equals or exceeds in many major benefits, which will undoubtedly pass almost unnoticed in the history of Nvidia products crushed by high performance the new GF104 thanks mainly to a much tighter price.