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eVGA GTX460 FTW Review (versus Reference HD5870)

Lost Planet 2 is a third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom. The game is the sequel to Lost Planet: Extreme Condition which is also made by Capcom, taking place ten years after the events of the first game, on the same fictional planet. The story takes place back on E.D.N. III 10 years after the events of the first game. The snow has melted to reveal jungles and more tropical areas that have taken the place of more frozen regions. The plot begins with Mercenaries fighting against Jungle Pirates.

After destroying a mine, the Mercenaries continue on to evacuate the area, in which a Category-G Akrid appears and attacks them. After being rescued, they find out their evacuation point (Where the Category-G appeared) was a set-up and no pick up team awaited them. Lost Planet 2 runs on the MT-Framework 2.0, an updated version of the engine used in several Capcom-developed games.

We are testing in DX11 mode.

Lost Planet 2 is brand new game which incorporates DX11 technology. We test with this enabled and as we can see the eVGA GTX460 FTW is outperforming the HD5870 by around 8-10fps throughout most of the environment test sections. We think (and hope) AMD can improve this performance with driver updates.

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12 comments

  1. Briliant idea for a review Zardon. that little bugger can fairly fly! fantastic value for money.

  2. very impressive card. I love the looks too, its so simple in design without colours and stickers all over it.

  3. Christ, those 460s are killer. Surprised me how good it is in some of those engines. Is lost planet 2 any good ?

  4. 460GTX is the only good card nvidia have released all year. after that shocking 430 earlier this week its nice this was up to redress the results.

    Good balanced reviewing. Z

  5. I rarely see eVGA cards for sale in my region. Are they having supply issues?

  6. When Harry did Sally

    I love eVGA products, such a shame to see BFG die t his year 🙁 hope this card seels a lot for them, but I cant buy it, even if I wanted. its not listed over here in Canada anywhere.

  7. Well that was a right kick in the nuts for AMD there. stonking performance all round. This card would have dominated, but it seems far too late for me to be a big seller, especially with 6870 and 6850 about to hit the scene 🙁

  8. If nvidia had gotten the 460 to launch in march/april it would be owning the market, sadly after a few months sales, id suspect they are startign to dry up now, with people hanging around for 6850/70. Too many mistakes for nvidia this year.

    Oh yeah, the rest of their range sucks too, which isnt helping consumer confidence.

  9. id still prefer the HD5870, but the pricing in the market is all over the place.

    Lets have a look.

    HD5870, great card but under pressure from 460. so it seems expensive.
    HD5850, its getting whipped by 460
    HD5830 – dead
    HD5770 – big seller, good pricing
    HD5670 – again, great media card, good seller

    GTX480 – overpriced, too hot and the performance leader, but no one cares, apart from people out to break 3dmark scores.
    GTX470 – dead
    GTX465 – who cares
    GTX460 – too late, but leading the way, making the 470 and 465 mean nothing anymore
    GTS450 – crap
    GT430 – overpriced and rubbish.

    Pricing is all wrong with both sides ! Nvidia have the GTX460 priced too low and the other 450 and 430 too high !

  10. just ordered the superclocked from scan. great price.

  11. the 460 continues to surprise me great cards for their price

  12. Just ordered one of these from Scan for just over £180. Gonna have to make up another PCI-e power cable as my 600w PSU only has one output for GFX. Simple job with a few molex connectors and a PCI-e plug. Will be interesting to see the improvement over my 8800GT 😉