GTX 460 2GB: worth the wait?

[sikcle]

So most of the manufacturers of the GeForce gtx 460 fermi cards have 768MB and 1GB versions released.

Now several of them are prepping non-reference 2GB versions.

Are these worth the wait, performance boast and price increase?


Anyone care to guess as to how much more these things should cost and relative performance inc.?

 

[OvrClkr]

And my 2 cents... here's the benchmarks to close the door on this topic http://benchmarkextreme.com/Articles/GTX%20460%20OC/P1.html. Here it displays results of testing a Nvidia 460 2GB against 1GB and 768GB against other cards including the 480 stock and overclocked. The 460 in sli out performs the 480 stock in every category as well as overclocks better than the 480!! Read the benchmark. You will see for $500.00 the best investment is 2 x 2GB 460's in sli over the 480 for the same price... better performance, ready for 3D (you need two cards for 3D), AND you will be just like me :- {) I run 2 Palit GeForce® GTX 460 Sonic 2GB (2048MB GDDR5) in sli on an ASUS Maximus III Extreme with 8GB Corsair Dominator GT through a C300 SSD... I have the best performance and quality video card(s) of all my ROG friend gamers.

Broken link, anyways I assume you are running anything between a 27/30" LCD with your setup (or triple display?) Enlighten us and post your results, I would love to see the gains you have obtained by having 2 extra gigs of ram

 

[Lapton]

And my 2 cents... here's the benchmarks to close the door on this topic http://benchmarkextreme.com/Articles/GTX%20460%20OC/P1.html. Here it displays results of testing a Nvidia 460 2GB against 1GB and 768GB against other cards including the 480 stock and overclocked. The 460 in sli out performs the 480 stock in every category as well as overclocks better than the 480!! Read the benchmark. You will see for $500.00 the best investment is 2 x 2GB 460's in sli over the 480 for the same price... better performance, ready for 3D (you need two cards for 3D), AND you will be just like me :- {) I run 2 Palit GeForce® GTX 460 Sonic 2GB (2048MB GDDR5) in sli on an ASUS Maximus III Extreme with 8GB Corsair Dominator GT through a C300 SSD... I have the best performance and quality video card(s) of all my ROG friend gamers.

I'm all for dual 2gb 460s, but I highly doubt that they would outperform a single 480 in a game that isn't optimized well for SLI. So, I think that the solution to the problem would be for a GPU distributor to make a 2gb 480 with all 512(?) CUDA cores unlocked. This GPU would work well in games not designed for SLI, and also have enough VRAM for games such as modded Oblivion, GTA4, etc. Also, it would completely own the 5870, and it would probably also beat the 6870 in most situations. Because of this, I'm still confused as to why Palit or another company hasn't done this yet.

 

[ares1214]

I'm all for dual 2gb 460s, but I highly doubt that they would outperform a single 480 in a game that isn't optimized well for SLI. So, I think that the solution to the problem would be for a GPU distributor to make a 2gb 480 with all 512(?) CUDA cores unlocked. This GPU would work well in games not designed for SLI, and also have enough VRAM for games such as modded Oblivion, GTA4, etc. Also, it would completely own the 5870, and it would probably also beat the 6870 in most situations. Because of this, I'm still confused as to why Palit or another company hasn't done this yet.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/181?vs=158

Highly doubt they would beat a 480 in games? Those are the 1 gigs. You all way overestimate the value of memory. Unless you are using triple 2560x1600 monitors, 4 gigs of VRAM is a utter waste. 2 is too much for normal resolutions. And that unlocked one would definitely beat a 5870. Its a one year old card. Except its very low yield, would be very high cost/temps/power, and i highly doubt it will beat a 6870 in most situations. 6870 is supposed to be 20-30% better than the GTX 480. It would be pretty impossible to get performance like that from a small and simple upgrade.

 

[bystander]

And my 2 cents... here's the benchmarks to close the door on this topic http://benchmarkextreme.com/Articles/GTX%20460%20OC/P1.html. Here it displays results of testing a Nvidia 460 2GB against 1GB and 768GB against other cards including the 480 stock and overclocked. The 460 in sli out performs the 480 stock in every category as well as overclocks better than the 480!! Read the benchmark. You will see for $500.00 the best investment is 2 x 2GB 460's in sli over the 480 for the same price... better performance, ready for 3D (you need two cards for 3D), AND you will be just like me :- {) I run 2 Palit GeForce® GTX 460 Sonic 2GB (2048MB GDDR5) in sli on an ASUS Maximus III Extreme with 8GB Corsair Dominator GT through a C300 SSD... I have the best performance and quality video card(s) of all my ROG friend gamers.

The problem with the benchmarks you posted, is they don't show the 1GB version of the 460's. It doesn't tell us anything about weither the extra memory helps.

There are setups and settings that are capible of giving the extra vram an advantage, but it's rare. You have to have at least 1920x1200 resolution and maxing out AA (or perhaps Super-sampling AA) to have any games see an advantage, and it would still be the rare game that would see an advantage.

The 2500+ resolutions with AA would be the main advantage of the 460 2gb, but at that resolution, it might not have the power to allow you to up the AA to those levels that it needs the ram.

 

[swifty_morgan]

here Bystander. You might like this..............

http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/801683-surround-gaming-nvidia-gtx460-mainstream-card.html

 

[bystander]

here Bystander. You might like this..............

http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/801683-surround-gaming-nvidia-gtx460-mainstream-card.html

I believe that is those conditions that I was talking about. Extreme resolutions do give a reason for the extra ram.

 

[quantichem]

my 2 cents here as well: this card is particularly useful for those who like to do some programming in CUDA - 2GB lets you do some very nice calculations. i don't pretend to read the minds of nvidia but this is probably what these cards are targeted for

 

[benski]

I think it would be a good card for those wanting to SLI them and span 3 displays with Surround or 3d Surround. Probably not much advantage for the single display users though.

 

[Mousemonkey]

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