Roundup: Nine GeForce GTX 460 1 GB Boards Benchmarked

[Crashman]

[citation][nom]stratus9000[/nom]Good article except for the conclusion. You gave readers the tools they need to make their own purchasing decision, but you didn't pick a winner of the roundup. I guess the Palit GPU won in all the benchmarks, but it would have been nice if you mentioned which card you would buy if you had $240-$250 burning a hole in your pocket. Thanks for the hard work on the article though. Saved me lots of time scouring through forum threads.[/citation]EVGA if it were going into my super-quiet case, to reduce internal heat. Asus if it were going on my bench, to reduce noise when I'm not using a super-quiet case. I pick Asus for the open-air bench because it has more max cooling than MSI, just in case I decide to temporarily tolerate the higher noise level of max fan speed in order to reach a higher overclock.

 

[Emperus]

I guess noise is a more subjective issue.. Personnely, i would like the noise to be minimum while the video card is idle and/or while i am browsing or using office, listening to music and all that stuff.. While gaming, the game audio will cover up the GPU noise so its less of a tension..

 

[Guest]

I have a new i7 HP-380UK and a GTX 260. It's a decent machine, but only an okay card. I think I'll go for the Gigabyte 460 in the next couple of weeks, given its close similarity in size to the standard Nvidia 460.

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]elbert[/nom]Palit has a nice GPU. While besting all the other GPU's what makes it stand out is not scoring highest in temperature or Power draw. Note not counting the exhibition card.[/citation]


well the palit card doesn't exatly do bad on colign and power consumptions , even on those thecard is high on the chart , excluding warrenty issues i'd say teh palit would be the best one to grab. but then a gain forget warrenty most gamers upgrade vid cards every 1-2 years any way.

 

[youssef 2010]

[citation][nom]article[/nom]The performance difference between Palit’s 800 MHz card and the reference version drops to 13% under Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The most likely reason for this smaller performance delta is a CPU performance limitation.[/citation]

Impossible as the Jetway card smoked all of them making a CPU bottleneck impossible to assume

 

[Crashman]

[citation][nom]youssef 2010[/nom]Impossible as the Jetway card smoked all of them making a CPU bottleneck impossible to assume[/citation]It only looks that way because the card is at the bottom. The card is at the bottom because it's not a production card. If you compare the Jetway and Palit numbers, the performance delta shrinks in MW2 compared to other benchmarks.

 

[houseaddikted]

why on earth didn't you run overclock test on each card ?! x_X

 

[Crocodil]

Hi

I'm thinking of buying either the MSI or Gigabyte GTX460 card. I would prefer the former but I'm not sure if it will fit in my case. It's a Cooler Master 690 II with a 25mm fan on the side panel.

The article says that the MSI Cyclone card is 5.1 inches (13 centimeters) wide. Does anyone know how this was measured? I mean - is it the entire card, starting from the PCI-Express slot up to the tip of heatpipes? If not, does anyone know the full width?

Best regards!
Crocodil

 

[bigmattwithagun]

question ... when running these cards in SLI, will you see similar results with the eVGA 460 cards that are of the 768mb variant? the price on these is significantly less and im curious to see whether or not its worth it for two of them, over my gtx 275. thoughts?

 

[Emperus]

Lets restrict this space for discussions on the article.. Queries can be put in the forums..

 

[Guest]

I have a radeon 4890 1gb should I upgrade?

 

[damian86]

This is a very nice article and usefull, I would suggest to get all these video cards and add noise benchmarks to this,update it.
It is amazing the difference in FPS between MW2 and Crysis, it shows you how powerfull both game engines are, totally different.

 

[loga8n]

i've recently purchased the gigabyte 460, and i can tell yall its quiet and runs very cool, i up the clock to a stable 875Mhz been up for over a week now seems fine, with the raise of core voltage i was able to get 900Mhz stable , but i like to run at the latter speed, less noise for me
picked up the care for $200 only, and i need to send a rebate to get an extra $20 off, its a deal for me, why pay $40-$50 to get lifetime warranty?
some company with lifetime only covers the card up until the end of production, which does not mean life time warranty of the card but only for production, in my eyes its not worth paying the extra money, cause 3 years is long enough, technology moves so fast that im sure these cards will be out of production in a few more years, and will make the lifetime warranty useless. but buying these cards depends on the consumer
i bought the gigabyte for the low price, and nice twin fans, silent and cool, performance gains from different cards are not that great
buy the lowest price one that meets your case layout

 

[loga8n]

http://en.expreview.com/2010/10/12/decisive-battle-for-non-reference-asusmsigigabyte-gtx-460-2/10692.html

 

[vada]

can u guyz tell me if the overclocking software provided by other companies can be used on a plait gtx 460 sonic?

 

[Guest]

I have the Asus GTX460 top 775core 4000ram I can run it comfy at 802core 4200 ram (asus uses very good qual ram) all std voltage. 1.025, or 1.1v at 900mhz core over 900 core I get corruption.

 

[Guest]

I am very happy with the Asus, very good cards, excellent cooling 3 copper heat pipe 50% better cooling & performance than my old EVGA 9800GTX. Love Asus products, excellent value for money. Mobo's overclock with simple bios interface 1,2,3 you got 25% higher clock speed for free.