GTX 460OC-1GI
Recommended Award
GIGABYTE
GTX 460OC-1GI / N450OC-1GI
RRP: GIGABYTE GTX460OC-1GI: $229.99 | GIGABYTE GTS450OC-1GI: $129.99
Website: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3530#ov
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Test Machine
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Intel Core i7 980X
Super Talent 2200 C8
OCZ AGILITY 2 50GB SSD
Thermaltake Toughpower
1.5KW PSU
• Windows 7 64-bit
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fter having run all the tests, and
several others whose results
are not presented here. We came
away impressed with the GTX460
as it delivered better performance
than we had expected. It seems
NVIDIA did some amazing work
with reworking the GF104 core.
It’s not quite enough to outdo the
Radeon HD5850 but it is certainly
a better product than the HD5830
which retails for a similar price.
When overclocked it sometimes
delivers numbers better than those
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of the GTX470 and the Radeon
HD5850 in selected benchmarks.
At $229 this is incredible value.
The Heaven Benchmark results
were particularly impressive
because the GTX460OC delivered
a marginally better score than we
recorded with a Radeon HD5870
(reference model).
In 3D Mark Vantage the score is
equally impressive but certainly
worth taking note of when the
GPU and Memory have been
overclocked. With a score above
18,000 it delivers numbers
expected of graphics cards costing
anything from $50 to $100 more.
We do feel that GIGABYTE could
have clocked this card a little
higher, given the impressive
cooler that the card comes with.
Fortunately this is easily fixed with
any of the available overclocking
utilities and 850MHz/2000MHz
setting is easily achievable with a
simple slider.
As impressive as the GTX460
was, we couldn’t help but be
a little underwhelmed at the
performance of the GTS450.
Granted it’s a $130 graphics card
and meant squarely at 1680x1050
and lower, we can’t help but feel
there’s some wasted potential in
this graphics card, courtesy of the
128-bit bus. Against the Radeon
5770, the GTS450 struggles unless
overclocked to at least 900MHz,
where it makes up some ground.
Given that this is the cards direct
competitor, it’s puzzling why the
numbers are closer to those of
the Radeon 5670 instead. With
that said, if the ability to use PhysX
and 3D Vision is appealing to you,
the GTS450 is the only DirectX11