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Review: ZOTAC GeForce GTX 460 1GB in SLI - beating up on GTX 480

by Tarinder Sandhu on 13 July 2010, 18:48 4.5

Tags: GTX 460 1,024MB, ZOTAC

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How we test

Hardware

Graphics cards ZOTAC GeForce GTX 480 1,536MB ZOTAC GeForce GTX 470 1,280MB ASUS GeForce GTX 465 1,024MB ZOTAC GeForce GTX 460 SLI ZOTAC GeForce GTX 460 1,024MB EVGA GeForce GTX 460 768MB Sapphire Radeon HD 5870  2,048MB HIS Radeon HD 5870 1,024MB  Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 1,024MB Sapphire Radeon HD 5830 1,024MB
Current pricing, including VAT £375 £280 £215 £370 £185 £163 £400 £325 £230 £170
Shader model 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0
Stream processors 480 448 352 336 x 2 336 336 1,600 1,600 1,440 1,120
GPU clock speed (MHz) 700 607 607 675 675 675 925 850 725 800
Shader clock speed (MHz) 1,401 1,215 1,215 1,350 1,350 1,350 925 850 725 800
Memory clock speed (MHz) 3,698 3,348 3,208 3,600 3,600 3,600 5,000 4,800 4,000 4,000
Memory bus width (bits) 384 320 256 2 x 256 256 192 256 256 256 256
CPU Intel Core i7 965 Extreme Edition (3.20GHz, 8MB L3 cache, quad-core, LGA1366 - Turbo Boost on)
Motherboard ASUS P6X58D Premium
Motherboard BIOS 0808
Mainboard software Intel Inf 9.1.1.1025
Memory 6GB Corsair DDR3-1,600 CL9
Memory timings and speed 9-9-9-24-1T @ DDR3-1,600
PSU Corsair HX1000W
Monitor Dell 30in 3007WFP - 2,560x1,600px
Disk drive(s) Corsair Nova V128 SSD
Graphics driver ForceWare 258.80 ForceWare 258.80 ForceWare 258.80 ForceWare 258.80 ForceWare 258.80 ForceWare 258.80 Catalyst 10.6 Catalyst 10.6 Catalyst 10.6 Catalyst 10.6
Operating system Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit

Software

Benchmarks Unigine Heaven v2.1 tessellation benchmark
Aliens vs. Predator DX11 benchmark 
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 v553292 - FRAPS-recorded benchmark
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - ultra quality - FRAPS-recorded benchmark
Crysis Warhead v1.1.1.711 - frost map - gamer quality
DiRT 2 v1.1, London map - ultra quality

Power-draw
Temperatures
Real-world noise
HEXUS.bang4buck and HEXUS.bang4watt

Notes

Benchmarks were conducted at 1,680x1,050, 1,920x1,080, and 2,560x1,600, where applicable, with decent degrees of image quality. The middle resolution has been changed from 1,920x1,200 to better reflect the resolution of HD monitors.

We've also updated the graphics drive to ForceWare 258.80 on all GeForce 400-series cards and have matched it up with Catalyst 10.6 for the AMD-based cards.

As we FRAPs two games in the suite - Battlefield and Call of Duty - and DiRT 2 reports minimum framerates, you will see those three games with two bars next to each card, denoting average and minimum framerates.

Making the GeForce GTX 460 1,024MB and SLI pair easier to spot in the upcoming graphs, we've coloured them in different shades of green.