Built from the ground up for DirectX 11, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460 delivers the ultimate next generation gaming experience. With up to 4x the DirectX 11 tessellation performance of the competition*, GeForce GTX 460 packs highly detailed visuals into your games - without sacrificing high frame rates. And with NVIDIA® 3D Vision™, PhysX®, and CUDA™ technologies, GeForce GTX 460 powers all the incredibly realistic effects that your games can throw its way.
DX11 Done Right
Treat your eyes to incredible visual details without sacrificing frame rates. With up to 4x¹ the geometry processing power over competing GPUs, you get incredibly detailed characters, terrain and game environments with blazing fast performance.
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Enter a New Dimension
Breakthrough the boundaries of your screen. Games, Blu-ray movies, videos and photos enter a new dimension to delight your senses with 3D Vision technology. |
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Microsoft® DirectX® 11 Support
DirectX 11 GPU with Shader Model 5.0 support designed for ultra high performance in the new API’s key graphics feature, GPU-accelerated tessellation.
NVIDIA PhysX® Technology
Full support for NVIDIA PhysX technology, enabling a totally new class of physical gaming interaction for a more dynamic and realistic experience with GeForce.
NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ Ready*
GeForce GPU support for NVIDIA 3D Vision, bringing a fully immersive stereoscopic 3D experience to the PC. A combination of high-tech wireless glasses and advanced software, 3D Vision transforms hundreds of PC games into full stereoscopic 3D. In addition, you can watch 3D movies and 3D digital photographs in eye popping, crystal-clear quality.
NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ Surround Ready**
Expand your games across three displays in full stereoscopic 3D for the ultimate “inside the game” experience with the power of NVIDIA 3D Vision and SLI technologies. NVIDIA® Surround™ also supports triple screen gaming with non-stereo displays.
NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology
CUDA technology unlocks the power of the GPU’s processor cores to accelerate the most demanding tasks such as video transcoding, physics simulation, ray tracing, and more, delivering incredible performance improvements over traditional CPUs.
NVIDIA SLI® Technology***
Industry leading NVIDIA SLI technology offers amazing performance scaling for the world’s premier gaming solution.
32x Anti-aliasing Technology
Lightning fast, high-quality anti-aliasing at up to 32x sample rates obliterates jagged edges.
NVIDIA® PureVideo® HD Technology****
The combination of high-definition video decode acceleration and post-processing that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for movies and video.
PCI Express 2.0 Support
Designed for the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture offering the highest data transfer speeds for the most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications, while maintaining backwards compatibility with existing PCI Express motherboards for the broadest support.
Dual-link DVI Support
Able to drive industry’s largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays up to 2560x1600 and with support for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP).
HDMI Support*****
Fully integrated support for HDMI including GPU accelerated Blu-ray 3D4 support, xvYCC, deep color, and 7.1 digital surround sound including Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD. Upgrade your GPU to full 3D capability with NVIDIA 3DTV Play software, enabling 3D gaming, picture viewing and 3D web video streaming. See www.nvidia.co.uk/3dtv for more details.
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First and foremost, despite being the first graphics cards you could fold on, all of ATI's current crop of GPUs are massively outperformed by Nvidia's Fermi-based cards. For example, the GeForce GTX 460 1GB is an astonishing two and half times faster than the similarly priced Radeon HD 5850. Given that the GeForce GTX 460 1GB only draws 8W more than the Radeon HD 5850 when folding, the Nvidia card is clearly a lot more energy efficient too.
We've often looked at Galaxy's custom range of NVIDIA graphics cards and quietly wished for UK availability. The cards in general tend to offer something that's a little different, and we're happy to see them marketed to European consumers under a new-look KFA2 brand, complete with the promise of localised customer service. One of the first products to emerge - the KFA2 GeForce GTX 460 1GB LTD OC - offers excellent out-the-box performance at a reasonable price.
Scan has managed to put this impressive specification together for just £717 exc VAT and the overclocked processor, powerful graphics card and decent chassis mean you're getting an awful lot for your money. The 3XS H55 does little wrong, and takes away a deserved Recommended award.
Essentially what this all means is that if you're looking for something to power that 30-inch panel you've always wanted to have running in its native resolution a pair of GTX 460s is the way to go.
KitGuru
KitGuru has been singing the praises of the GTX460 since it was released. We thought both eVGA and MSI versions we reviewed offered superb value for money with class leading performance. The Zotac AMP! Edition is the fastest GTX460 card we have tested to date, thanks to the very generous core and memory clock enhancements.
Zotac have created the fastest GTX 460 we have tested to date. This is a product which features all of the great functionality from more expensive models and packs it into a £215/$250 package. Whether it is HTPC use (including 3D Blu-Ray) or just firing up the latest game, the Zotac GTX 460 AMP! Edition is an impressive card.
Taking the winning formula that is NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 460, Inno3D's pre-overclocked 1GB card offers commendable out-the-box performance and is able to keep both cool and quiet under load.
Our glut of numbers indicates that putting two pre-overclocked GeForce GTX 460 768MB cards into a system gives you excellent performance in a wide range of games. EVGA's SuperClocked cards ship with a £10 premium over default-clocked models but offer a noticeable bump in performance.
At £680 exc VAT, it remains affordable for a high-end base unit, but matches or exceeds similarly priced systems for performance and build quality, and the chassis is a particular strong point. With its brand-new Fermi graphics card and a well-overclocked processor, it's an impressive all-round package.
The ten-year warranty is incredible and it's obvious EVGA is really trying to cater for its customers' needs. The factory overclock is impressive...
Based on the results that we have obtained, we believe that the GTX 460 768MB represents excellent value for money. Fantastic work NVIDIA.
In terms of extra features, Nvidia does have the edge over ATI at present. Its 3D Vision technology is long-established with lots of software support. In addition, its CUDA application acceleration is the only one supported by Adobe (great for Photoshopfans), plus there’s the company’s PhysX technology for better in game physics.
£716 won't buy you an Intel Core i7 970X chip, but that for that same outlay you get a system that should last you a good while. Recommended if you want a no-fuss, tidy build from folk who know what they're doing.
If you've got yourself a GTX 460 card by now, it would be criminal not to overclock it. ...If you haven’t placed your order for a GTX 460 1GB already, do so while stocks last!
The GTX 460 is a triumph, cheaper than its closest rivals without ever compromising on raw performance.
All told, then, the GTX 460 1GB is an impressive beast. On average throughout our tests, it performed better than ATI's competing cards at this price range, it's not too noisy and power consumption is as competitive as anything else. Once you factor in Nvidia's exclusive extras like PhysX and 3D gaming, you have a clear winner.
Kit Guru
...this is a cracking product. The superclocked, 768MB EVGA GTX460 is the best nVidia card to hit the market since October 2006.
Impressed by single-card performance of the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 460 1,024MB, the deal is sweetened by the knowledge that adding a second will provide near-perfect scaling and multi-monitor goodness. Two cards are well worth a look if you are planning on spending more than £300 on your next graphics upgrade.
Kit Guru
With the GTX460, SLI scales beautifully with both clocks and GPUs… A pair of GTX460 cards can keep pace with the world's fastest graphics card.
The huge amount of overclocking headroom and the fact the card remains pretty damned quiet while it's doing it too makes it a winner. …Time to head to the job centre for a fair few other cards then.
NVIDIAs new GTX 460 offers a huge range of features... exceeding its direct competition from ATI in every way. A great, well balanced and flexible addition to the GTX 400 series.
...if you’re in the market for a £200 graphics card, then the GTX 460 1GB is the sweet spot at the moment.
Cooler, quieter and smaller than previous Fermi Cards, Sharp performance at sub-200 GBP price points and they overclock well.
The GTX 460 768MB is a solid card, but scratch together the extra £20 and get the 1GB version if you can: you wont regret it.
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