NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 460: The $200 King
by Ryan Smith on July 11, 2010 11:54 PM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
- GeForce GTX 400
- GeForce GTX 460
- NVIDIA
BattleForge: DX10
Up next is BattleForge, Electronic Arts’ free to play online RTS. As far as RTSes go this game can be quite demanding, and this is just at DX10.
BattleForge switches things up some. No longer are we RAM/L2/ROP dependent as much as we are on raw shader power. This gives the 1GB GTX 460 only the slightest advantage over the 768MB card, while the factory overclocked cards clearly dominate here.
This also gives us a situation where we can gauge the GTX 460 and GTX 465 in a shader-bound test and see just how well the GTX 460 can do. The result in the favor of the GTX 465 by quite a bit, where it beats the 1GB GTX 460 by nearly 15%. With the need to extract ILP from the GF104 GPU to fully utilize the GPU’s CUDA cores, this looks to be approaching a worst-case scenario for the GTX 460, as it even falls behind last year’s GTX 275 and Radeon HD 4890.
As for the Radeon 5000 series, AMD’s situation improves here. The 5830 still loses, but only by 10%. Meanwhile the 5850 pulls ahead of the 1GB GTX 460 by 18%.
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Alroys - Monday, July 12, 2010 - link
Nice review, but i would have liked to see how well they overclock.beginner99 - Monday, July 12, 2010 - link
Not a bad card. I ordered a 5850 for my new build. 460 is a little less performing but more quite. The ordered 5850 is out of stock and no due date. However till the 460's arrive it will probably also be a few weeks...Need to wait on price. usually quite a bit higher here.KITH - Monday, July 12, 2010 - link
Quiet and Quite are different words...460 is a little less performing but more *quiet*
Usually *quite* a bit higher here.
See the difference? You even used both in your own post.
chizow - Monday, July 12, 2010 - link
Looks like a great part from Nvidia that seems to hit the same target price and performance markets as the wildly 8800GT before it. Much as the G92 and its derivatives dominated the gaming market while bringing DX10 to the mainstream, GTX 460 may be poised to do the same.Griswold - Monday, July 12, 2010 - link
Its not going to dominate anything but nvidias own lineup. AMD will just - finally - drop prices, and thats that.james.jwb - Monday, July 12, 2010 - link
I agree. AMD will either drop the price on the 5850 to make this new card redundant, or not do it and make a major mistake.chizow - Monday, July 12, 2010 - link
I doubt they're willing to drop the price on the 5850 enough to truly compete with the GTX 460, especially the 768MB version.. Maybe match the 1GB version's $230 price point by going to $250 but then what does that do to the 5870? Who's going to buy a 5870 at $400 when a 5850 only costs $250? Either way it looks like Nvidia has that $200-$250 market locked tight and in a few months with MIRs that'll shift to the $160-$220 range.Lonyo - Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - link
Considering the launch prices were $260/$380, there's no reason to imagine a drop to $250 would leave the 5870 at $400.Maybe we would see something like $250/$350. Finally a drop from launch prices.
papapapapapapapababy - Monday, July 12, 2010 - link
i mean why bother? to play ports like "singularity" with bump mapped ( and terrible low res textures?) i mean the pos3 game only uses about 140MB of my video ram! ati, nvidia, intel, amd, no real pc games? > no sale. adeus suckers!mindbomb - Monday, July 12, 2010 - link
What does the presence of hdmi v1.4 ports mean?Does this card have 3d bluray capabilities not seen on other cards?