NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 465: Cheaper Isn’t Always Better
by Ryan Smith on May 31, 2010 3:26 AM ESTBattleForge: DX11
While BattleForge can be tough under DX10, under DX11 it’s even more brutal. Here we use the DX11 renderer and turn on self shadowing ambient occlusion (SSAO) to its highest setting, which uses a DX11 ComputeShader.
Once again we have a dead-heat between the GTX 465 and Radeon 5850, except this time it doesn’t break at 2560. At all resolutions the two cards are equally matched. Given that we’re not seeing a divergence at 2560 as we did earlier under DX10, this may point to the GTX 465 being better performing at ComputeShader 5.0 compared to the 5850. Our GTX 465/470 comparison also lends some credit to this idea, with the gap staying at 20%.
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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.