Home / Tech News / Featured Announcement / eVGA GTX 460 768MB Superclocked Review

eVGA GTX 460 768MB Superclocked Review

Rating: 9.0.

GTX460 is ‘Fermi done right' That's what nVidia wants us to believe after a tough year. On Wednesday 30th September 2009, Jen Hsun Huang stood on a global stage with a ‘Fermi card' in his hand and the watching world was treated to a series of demonstrations. Subsequently, we were told by nVidia that while the card itself was a mock-up, the demos had been generated on Fermi. Given that the vast majority of users will never spend more than £200 on a card, nVidia has been desperately looking forward to launching a competitive Fermi product into the ‘affordable price space'. KitGuru pulls out the spanner and oscilloscope to see if GTX460 delivers.

If the card shown last September HAD been production silicon, where would nVidia be now?

Today we see the release of the GTX 460, the baby brother in the Fermi series. nVidia says that it consumes less power, generates less heat and has been priced to tackle the HD5830. They are targeting the only card in the 5 series range which (KitGuru feels) is underpowered and overpriced. From the results we've seen in the KitGuru Labs, nVidia can afford to be a bit more confident than that. Quite a bit more.

The GTX 460 is going to hit the UK market at £175 inc vat, a very sweet spot indeed for gamers who still want a viable partner for their swanky 24 inch screen, without having spending a small fortune. We will be having a look at performance from this reference card.

Today however KitGuru is going to be focusing on the eVGA GTX 460 Superclocked Edition which is being released at around £195 inc vat and comes with a hefty overclock on the core (88mhz) and 50mhz (200mhz effective) on the memory.

Here is the current lineup from nVidia with the eVGA Superclocked card included in the mix.

Model Geforce GTX 460 768MB eVGA GTX 460 Superclocked 768MB Geforce GTX 465 Geforce GTX 470 Geforce GTX 480
Graphics Processing Clusters 2 2 3 4 4
Streaming Multiprocessors 7 7 11 14 15
CUDA Cores 336 336 352 448 480
Texture Units 56 56 44 56 50
ROP Units 24 24 32 40 48
Graphics Clock (Fixed Function Units) 675mhz 763mhz 607mhz 607mhz 700mhz
Processor Clock (CUDA Cores) 1350mhz 1526mhz 1215mhz 1215mhz 1401mhz
Memory Clock (Clock Rate/Data Rate) 900mhz/3600mhz 950mhz/3800mhz 802mhz/3206mhz 837mhz/3348 mhz 924 mhz/3696mhz
Total Video Memory 768MB 768MB 1024MB 1280MB 1536MB
Memory Interface 192-bit 192-bit 256-bit 320-bit 384-bit
Total Memory Bandwidth 86.4GB/s 91.2GB/s 102.6 GB/s 133.9 GB/s 177.4 GB/s
Texture Filtering Rate (Bilinear) 37.8 Gigatexels/sec 37.8 Gigatexels/sec 26.7 Gigatexels/sec 34.0 GigaTexels/sec 42.0 GigaTexels/sec
Fabrication process 40nm 40nm 40nm 40nm 40nm
Connectors 2x Dual Link DVI-I1x Mini HDMI 2x Dual Link DVI-I1x Mini HDMI 2x Dual Link DVI-I1x Mini HDMI 2x Dual Link DVI-I1x Mini HDMI 2x Dual Link DVI-I1x Mini HDMI
Form Factor Dual Slot Dual Slot Dual Slot Dual Slot Dual Slot
Power Connectors 2x6pin 2x6pin 2x6pin 2x6pin 1x6pin, 1x8pin
Recommended Power Supply 450 watts 450 watts 550 watts 550 watts 650 watts
Thermal Design Power 150 watts 150 watts 200 watts 215 watts 250 watts
Thermal Threshold 104c 104c 105c 105c 105c

Become a Patron!

Check Also

Xbox Developer Direct

“A few other surprises” to be announced during Xbox Direct, according to insider

Tomorrow, Microsoft will be going live with its Xbox Developer Direct, in which the console maker is said to be showing off 4 titles in total – including DOOM: The Dark Ages and South of Midnight. According to one insider, Microsoft is keeping its cards close to its chest, with “a few other surprises” said to be announced during the event...

23 comments

  1. performance is very good indeed.

  2. Third time lucky, good card, seems to be almost worth the wait

  3. Nice overclocked performance. Seems a reference card would be a good buy and then manually overclocking it to save some money,.

  4. That evga board is really good value for money, under 200? the 5830 I never liked, and I can see why now.

  5. Very good card from nvidia, power consumption is also impressive considering the performance.

  6. I am quite surprised how good this card is, seems to be the top buy now under £200.

  7. It is a tough call to make, spend a bit extra on evga superclocked to get moer performance for sure out of the box, or save some money, get the reference card and hope it overclocks as good. They all seem to overclock well, but you never know by how much until you take it home and trash it.

  8. I think nvidia shares should go up with this one.

  9. Ohhh, I like this card and I never thought id say that about fermi. which to this point has been a power sucking waste of space.

  10. Yeah I agree the power consumption and noise levels are class leading. well done.

  11. Well color me impressed with this one. Wasnt expecting such good performance and temperatures.

  12. Its still not as good as the AMD 5850.

  13. well of course its not as good as the HD5850, that card competes against the GTX465. its about £50 more?

  14. Big release for nvidia, probably their biggest card release for sales in 4 years. It might save their sales in 2010. I know they are struggling.

  15. performance figures are good, read a few reviews and it seems to be sending the HD5830 home in a coffin. its about time we see nvidia competitive again, even if its a mid range sector. the big sales are here and in the 100-150 sector.

  16. thanks for including the HQV Benchmark 2.0 results.

  17. Interesting results, and its good to see nvidia working on their drivers for IQ now in HQV Benchmark 2.0

  18. fermi for the masses methinks. its a very solid product all round. Cant get over how small it is, but it still needs 2 x6 pin connectors.

  19. Figures are good, noise is great, power drain is excellent. size is tiny. Not much to knock, even the price seems competitive.

  20. wow, nvidia leading a price point, hell just froze over !

  21. I like this card a lot. Might pick one up later in the month.

  22. Have one on preorder.

  23. Nice comeback. I’m waiting to see how AMD will respond, and find it hard to speculate on that. AMD can probably lower prices considerably if it wants, but on the other hand if Southern Islands are indeed expected in a couple of months’ time, perhaps it would just wait for that.

We've noticed that you are using an ad blocker.

Thank you for visiting KitGuru. Our news and reviews teams work hard to bring you the latest stories and finest, in-depth analysis.

We want to be as informative as possible – and to help our readers make the best buying decisions. The mechanism we use to run our business and pay some of the best journalists in the world, is advertising.

If you want to support KitGuru, then please add www.kitguru.net to your ad blocking whitelist or disable your adblocking software. It really makes a difference and allows us to continue creating the kind of content you really want to read.

It is important you know that we don’t run pop ups, pop unders, audio ads, code tracking ads or anything else that would interfere with the KitGuru experience. Adblockers can actually block some of our free content, such as galleries!