Alright so I was looking to upgrade my GPU to play FFXIV, and I came across this wonderful looking card. Now my question is anyone have it? It's $199-249 dollars which seems pretty damn good for a 400 series. Is there a catch, like I said anyone have this thing yet? I'd really like to know if it's a decent card, it's relatively small from what I've read, which to me is extremely awesome, don't have to upgrade my case to fit a new GPU. I have read tom's hardware review but just curious if anyone has had experience with it. Would love to upgrade without being behind the curve and not shelling out more then 300 bucks for a new graphic card. http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=768-P3-1360-TR&family=GeForce 400 Series Family&sw=
Ofock got a 465 and seems happy with it. It's a small step up from the 460, but they're in the same family. As far as EVGA goes, I like 'em. My current 275 is an EVGA card and I'm pretty sure the 9800 GTX I had was from EVGA also.
It's a good card you'll be happy with it. As I've said in other posts the 400 series are pulling 70 to 80% scaling in SLI, so when you want to upgrade down the road you'll get a huge performance boost from what at the time will be a very cheap upgrade.
465 is NOT the same thing as a 460 look at all the reviews ... get the 1gb model and it is performing better if not = to the 465 I myself will be getting a 460 from work soon as we get em in plus u can overclock t he crap out the 460 with less power consumption and a hell of a lot less heat here is a tid bit from the www.guru3d.com site So then, the GeForce GTX 460. Typically we dive deeply into the graphics core architecture. For this article, being very lengthy, I would like to keep things a little bit more simple and easy to grasp -- to keep things understandable. The GeForce GTX 460 series is to be based on a new chip, initially the Fermi architecture you all have seen on the GTX 465, 470 and 480 is based on the GF100 chip. The Mid-range GeForce GTX 460 is still based on that Fermi architecture, yet for this round NVIDIA designed a new chip, so this is not a GF100 with disabled Shader clusters. Make no mistake here, the architecture is still based on Fermi, same setup, same caches, yet now a much smaller chip with less transistors (2.1 Billion to be precise), called the GF104. GF104 is a less complicated chip to manufacture as the smaller transistor count directly relates to better yields, heat levels, better voltages and thus a better TDP as well. It is a smaller chip to produce. For this round NVIDIA will put the GF104 chip onto two products, the GeForce GTX 460 with 768MB of graphics memory and the GeForce GTX 460 with 1024MB of memory. For the bigger part of the specification the two are similar when it comes to shader processor count, memory bus and clock frequencies, the 1GB model however definitely will be a good chunk faster, as cutting away 256MB of memory also cuts away a chunk of the ROP engine. So you might wonder, why two models? Well, initially we felt that the 768MB version would end up in OEM mostly, then again, at sub-200 USD this card surprised us as it offers a lot of bang for buck alright. Who knows, time will tell which model will sell the best. Regardless of its 768MB of memory, as we'll demonstrate it is a sexy performer in the mid-range for sure. Yes, performance wise these cards will be really interesting. But we'd almost forget that the GeForce GTX 460 cards will be fully fledged DirectX 11 class cards with nice tessellation performance and the full DX11 API feature set. Though only a handful of games really show significant DX11 class quality, we really feel that if you are in the market for a new graphics card, DX11 is obviously the path to follow.
So is this card the best $200ish card?? I was under the impression the ATI cards were best right now for around that range...
it is the best card for 200 for sure now ... it matches around with the 5830 ... it was targeted for the 5770 but it does better then that
I'm using a 9800GT and upgrading to a GTX 460 1GB, should be a pretty big leap. Only 240 bucks, hell I'll buy it!
From what I've been reading the 1GB model completely dominates the 768mb model. It's upwards of 30% better performance, which for 30 bucks difference is quite sexy.
While $30 isn't all that much, you can overclock the 768MB model to perform better than the 1GB. Being that the 1GB is rarely in stock right now, I just got the EVGA SC 768 model for $185 since SC2 was starting to lag. It is on par and sometimes even performs better than the 1GB at stock clocks. http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1364/8/
here's another comparison. http://guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-460-review/21 I think once you decide to go with "super high resolutions" (in more like multiple displays rather 30"+ monitors), it's time for sli or crossfire.
Well i used a 9800gt also and went to a 465 and it was such a huge setup and even tho some say a 460 and a 465 are different i think they are the same my roommate has a 460 and i cant tell any difference. whatever 4XX you get i think well be worth it.
The difference is, with the power draw and heat that the 465 takes in and puts out, it should be a much faster card. The 460's requirements/emissions are much much lower than the 465 and it's performance on Heaven 2 and whatever the other program is who's name escapes me at the moment is superior as well. Now while we all want 480's, because we don't care about heat or power consumption, I am still super impressed that not only has Nvidia offered a solution for all the 5k tiers AMD has but in almost every instance surpassed them. Also, I think the fact that you can get 2 460's run them in SLI and have up to 4 active monitors at once without a retarded $100 display port adapter is freaking awesome.