
It has been a while since we have been able to call an Nvidia card a “winner”, but today’s the day we see a true midrange winner with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 460. Basically the GTX 460 is one step down from the GeForce GTX 465 we saw a few months ago and is set to compete with the ATI Radeon HD 5830 which carries the same price tag. This is also the first Fermi graphics card that has launched with two, slightly different versions – a 1 GB version and a 768 MB version.
Today’s release has also seen a new core being used for the GPU. So far, the GTX 480, GTX 470 and GTX 465 have all used the Fermi GF100 core, however the new GTX 460 uses a different Fermi-based core known as the GF104. The GF104 core carries just 1.95 billion transistors compared to the 3 billion on the GF100 which helps keep prices down, power, size and temperatures down and also fairly moderate performance which brings it into the mid-range section of graphics cards.












