GTX460 vs GTX260, are the reviewers snowing us?

[galen0329]

Why is everyone (Toms, Anandtech etc.) so enthusiastic about GTX460? For real life gaming use, the performance is about the same as GTX260, the price is higher. There is no way to SLI the GTX260 with GTX460. It looks to me like an evolutionary reissue of existing product to me, the same ploy NVIDIA pulled with 8800gt and 9800gt some time ago. Less power consumption is good, the higher price is not. Am I missing something?

 

[hunter315]

Because its the first Fermi GPU to use reasonable levels of power and give good performance for its price point. Its a totally different chip than the GX260 so its not at all like what was done with the 8800GT to the 9800GT and the 9800GTX+ to the GTS250. The GTX 460 is done at 40nm, has DX11, and will provide better CUDA performance for those it affects.

Also, try to find a GTX260 at all today, let alone one for less than the GTX460.

 

[galen0329]

Because its the first Fermi GPU to use reasonable levels of power and give good performance for its price point. Its a totally different chip than the GX260 so its not at all like what was done with the 8800GT to the 9800GT and the 9800GTX+ to the GTS250. The GTX 460 is done at 40nm, has DX11, and will provide better CUDA performance for those it affects.

Also, try to find a GTX260 at all today, let alone one for less than the GTX460.

Your points are well taken. The Fermi GPUs are more hot air than substance. What will 40nm chip get us? Less power consumption to me and lower cost to Nvidia? My point is that the GTX460 performance is vintage 2008 and Nvidia is replacing a good card with a cheaper to make card, of the same real life performance. The GTX260 was beginning to slide down pricewise. I guess it was time to replace it with a marginal update to keep the price up. It is too bad there is not much competition in the GPU field. Should the reviewers bring all of that up?

 

[Mousemonkey]

The cheapest GTX260 from Scan.

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/XFX-Geforce-GTX260-576Mhz-896MB-GDDR3-Dual-DVI-PCI-E-Card

And the cheapest GTX460's.
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/768MB-Inno-3D-GTX-460-3600MHz-GDDR5-GPU-675MHz-Shader-Clock-1350MHz-336-Cores-DVI-mHDMI


http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/768MB-Palit-GTX-460-3600MHz-GDDR5-GPU-675MHz-Shader-Clock-1350MHz-336-Cores-DVI-D-Sub-HDMI

an evolutionary reissue of existing product to me

Surely that could be said of every new GPU that is released regardless the company that makes it?

 

[galen0329]

The cheapest GTX260 from Scan.

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/XFX-Geforce-GTX260-576Mhz-896MB-GDDR3-Dual-DVI-PCI-E-Card

And the cheapest GTX460's.
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/768MB-Inno-3D-GTX-460-3600MHz-GDDR5-GPU-675MHz-Shader-Clock-1350MHz-336-Cores-DVI-mHDMI


http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/768MB-Palit-GTX-460-3600MHz-GDDR5-GPU-675MHz-Shader-Clock-1350MHz-336-Cores-DVI-D-Sub-HDMI

an evolutionary reissue of existing product to me

Surely that could be said of every new GPU that is released regardless the company that makes it?

You are right. It looks like the right way to deal with that is to keep your latin motto in mind.

 

[Mousemonkey]

You are right. It looks like the right way to deal with that is to keep your latin motto in mind.

It works for me! [:mousemonkey] :lol: