It's rare to come across a universally lauded product nowadays, but NVIDIA's fresh new
GTX 460 is just that sort of exceptional creation. Contrary to its
GTX 465 elder brother, the 460 isn't a chopped-down top-tier part and is instead built on the new GF104 core. This smaller core, designed from the start to perform humbler functions, has ameliorated the famed
power inefficiency that has been a
Fermi signature so far, and has resulted in
AnandTech describing the new card as "the $200 king." You'll get 768MB of onboard RAM at that point, but we'd splurge an extra $30 to make that a round gigabyte and enjoy some extra L2 cache and ROPs on the card. Either way, the GTX 460 seems to have completely killed off the market for the 465 and is stepping all over ATI's toes with its competitive pricing and, for once, decent heat and power metrics. Oh, and apparently it "overclocks like a monster" too -- hit the links below for the full reviews.
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posted July 12th 2010 3:03AM
The good thing about this is AMD is going to reduce the prices of their cards, competition is always nice for the consumer and the industry as a whole.
How much better is this than my 9800GT?
@LuffyZoro This much ---->
@LuffyZoro A lot... so much that it's raping you right now.
@LuffyZoro ^^^^ formatting fail. :-( C'mon, Engadget, give us a Preview button...please?
Sexy. I was planning on getting a $300 5850, but I'll keep an eye on this.
ATI.
Nvidia.
You have until September to win my heart.
Price drop battle nnnnnnnnoooooooowwwwwwwwwww
Cue sumo hand chop match start
I'm looking for a new graphics card now, I need it so I could play Minesweeper on my windows 98 machine. Will this card have enough power to do that? Thanks!
I used to be such the video card guy, now I don't even use my hand built PC. Hell, I don't even remember what video card I put in there. I've been using my Dell XPS from a few years back as my main PC (hooked up to my same 24" monitor and desktop k/m).
Not sure what's going to bring me back to (desktop) PC land. Maybe Diablo 3 :)
Cody
I'd be into it if hadn't gotten a midrange Rad 5770 over 6 months ago.
No sarcasm, I like Nvidia and ATI equally, but N is so late to the party with a decent upper-midrange product.
I just purchased GIGABYTE GV-N460OC-1GI. I know Nvidia is a bit late to the "party" but when you run Linux, ATI just isn't the way to go. Plus Nvidia adds VDPAU which is a godsend for people who run video encoding. My last card was a 8600GT so this is a huge step up in performance too. The only issue I see is driver support. Hopefully Nvidia gets Linux support quickly for this card so I don't have to run Win7 for too long... LOL
Mweh, gonna upgrade to a 5850 from my 8600 GTS, I don't need CUDA nor OC'ing.
My gigabyte mobo is a pci-e 1. I have a 9600gt. Should I wait to get a mobo with pci-e 2? My understanding is 9600gt is not bottlenecked with one lane. Any suggestion, please.
wow, i have always felt bad for AMD/ATI. They come up with the more technically advanced cards (ex. first DX10 and DX11, shader model 5.0 etc.) then nVidia comes up with the same technology but improved in both power and price.
I have a great respect for ATI, but i'm still a nvidia fan.
@Icepop4who The thing is this card is a bit late. ATI is planned to have its new cards out this fall and Nvidia still hasn't released lowend 4xx cards. Even still the Nvidia cards still run a bit hotter adn until now were priced a bit higher, and I'm betting ATI will drop their prices in the next few days/weeks to compete.
Someone please let me know where you can get a $200 5870 card because I cant find that anywhere at newegg. I was going for a 5970 but now if i can get two 5870's for $400 would be a sweet deal!
@drutyper
I found the 5870 for $112 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16828800132&cm_re=5870-_-28-800-132-_-Product
HAHA - same model number...
FYI the 5830 can be had for under $200
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102878&cm_re=5830-_-14-102-878-_-Product
Uhm wow, this is everyones favorite new card? I'm glad Engadget is assuming things for people now. Nvidia will never be my "favorite" card again. Not unless they stop their dishonest rebranding of chips and lose the high prices. I've always bought Nvidia for the last 10 years. No more. AMD/ATI all the way now. Tired of Nvidia and even Intel thinking they can charge me 10 times the price for something that ATI offers while only being marginally better in most cases.
@RAWRscary
No $hit!
Ive used intel and nvidia always but at this point you just cant beat what ati and amd are putting out.. ive been loyal to them a lobg time but why bother paying more when you can get such aggressively priced good quality gear from their competition..
Whenever U upgrade its all about price vs performance.. let the fanboys waste their money
BEWARE - i would not buy one of these until the over-heating problems are rectified. otherwise go for a brand that has its own cooling, they screwed up the fan design or something. they are already failing