NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 465: Cheaper Isn’t Always Better
by Ryan Smith on May 31, 2010 3:26 AM ESTSTALKER: Call of Pripyat
The 3rd game in the STALKER series continues to build on GSC Game World’s X-Ray Engine by adding DX11 support, tessellation, and more. This also makes it another one of the highly demanding games in our benchmark suite.
At lower resolutions, the GTX 465 does consistently worse than the 5850 – at both 1680 and 1920 it’s 12% behind. What’s more interesting is that at 2560 the GTX 465 gets absolutely demolished – that’s not a typo, it really did get 4.7fps. Why? We know that Stalker loves VRAM, which is why 2GB Radeon cards and NVIDIA’s other GTX 400 series cards do so well. But with only 1GB the GTX 465 pays the price. As for why the price is so severe, AMD and NVIDIA use different memory management strategies, so AMD is likely using a strategy that handles texture swapping under Stalker better than NVIDIA does. As a result the 5850 can generally cope, while the GTX 465 chokes. Ultimately this is not a game the GTX 465 will ever be playing at 2560.
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osideplayer - Monday, May 31, 2010 - link
Sorry for the typo's I didn't editrobert3892 - Monday, May 31, 2010 - link
I would like to know why you didn't benchmark a GTX 465 SLI?Ryan Smith - Monday, May 31, 2010 - link
We only have the 1 card.spathotan - Monday, May 31, 2010 - link
Still satisfied with my GTX 285 I bought in February 2009, and these benchmarks support me.mianmian - Monday, May 31, 2010 - link
Under load, GTX465 "drawing 17W less than the GTX 470 and 72W more than the 5850"It is different than the chat indicate.
The label for 5870 , GTX465, GTX470 must be switched by accident.
Ryan Smith - Monday, May 31, 2010 - link
A graph went AWOL. It has returned.AnnonymousCoward - Monday, May 31, 2010 - link
ATI is so far ahead.n0nsense - Tuesday, June 1, 2010 - link
The GTX465 is physicaly identical to GTX470.You can overclock it at least to 750MHz. You can flash 470 BIOS and achieve same thing as with unlocking Phenom's cores. And i couldn't find a word about it in all pages.
This makes this card much more interesting then anything from AMD.
Actually it is even more interesting then 470. The price is 70$ lower.
I'd like to see research on these "features". Let's hope someone is already working on it ;)
7Enigma - Tuesday, June 1, 2010 - link
- cannot guarantee an OC that high when looking at the variabliity of the chips-cannot guarantee unlocking extra areas of the card since these are clearly harvested from "bad" 470/480's
-power consumption/noise is already quite bad and doing either of the above would make this even worse.
It would have been interesting for it to be mentioned in the conclusion however as a POSSIBLE plus.
rohitbaran - Tuesday, June 1, 2010 - link
I think that the GTX 465 isn't that fast compared to 5850. The tests were done using catalyst 10.3a. I saw benchmarking done with catalyst 10.5 and differences were wider. The GTX 465 lagged behind the 5830 in many cases forget the 5850, which proved to be a bit too mighty for the newcomer 465. So I don't agree completely with the conclusion that 465 offers same performance to price ratio as the 5850.