NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 465: Cheaper Isn’t Always Better
by Ryan Smith on May 31, 2010 3:26 AM ESTBattlefield: Bad Company 2
The latest game in the Battlefield series - Bad Company 2 - is another one of our new DX11 games and has been a smash hit at retail. It’s also surprisingly hard on our GPUs, enough so that we can say we found something that’s more demanding than Crysis. As BC2 doesn’t have a built-in benchmark or recording mode, here we take a FRAPS run of the jeep chase in the first act, which as an on-rails portion of the game provides very consistent results and a spectacle of explosions, trees, and more.
NVIDIA’s 257.15 drivers did a lot to improve Bad Company 2 performance, a very necessary thing given the GTX 400 series’ original poor showing at the game. As a result the gap is shorter than it once was, but the GTX 465 still takes it on the chin here. With an increase in resolution comes an increase in the gap between the GTX 465 and the 5850, starting at 9% and culminating at 23%. If NVIDIA can work a bit more out of their drivers the GTX 465 may close the gap at 1680, but it’s still going to be pretty far behind at any higher resolutions. NVIDIA does have an advantage here when it comes to image quality (specifically, anti-aliasing), which will jump in to with our comprehensive review of the 257.15 drivers later this week.
As for the GTX 470 versus the GTX 465, the GTX 465 stays within 78% and 84% of its bigger sibling.
Meanwhile the Waterfall benchmark repeats something we saw on our initial GTX 480 review: NVIDIA does better than AMD when it comes to minimum framerates. We’ve been able to rule out a Video RAM advantage here thanks in part to the use of 1GB of VRAM on the GTX 465, so we have to look elsewhere to explain this. At this point we believe we may be shader bound, which would be to the GTX 465’s advantage.
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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.