Which GTX460?

Stay away from anything that says GTX 460 SE (Affectionately named Slow Edition, with good reason!) as it's about 2/3 of a real GTX 460

Stick to the GTX 460 1Gb cards that aren't SE

That EVGA one will do fine
 
It certainly should. Does the 850mhz version have increased memory clocks as well? The stock is 1800mhz (DDR)
 
I have experience with using NVIDIA GTX 460, it has 3800 MHz (effective) memory and PhysX and CUDA technologies supports gamings.
 
Hi linkin,

I was unable to find the DDR clock rating. However, the 720mhz one has 3600mhz memory (effective) and the 850mhz one has 4000mhz memory (effective).
 
I wouldnt bother getting an Overclocked version that will probably cost $20-30 more than a standard clocked 460,You can overclock it yourself for free!

I have the GTX 460 768mb version,overclocked to the clocks you can see in my sig,ive not even touched the voltage so could possible go higher as the card runs very cool.
 
Nevakonaza said:
I wouldnt bother getting an Overclocked version that will probably cost $20-30 more than a standard clocked 460,You can overclock it yourself for free!

I have the GTX 460 768mb version,overclocked to the clocks you can see in my sig,ive not even touched the voltage so could possible go higher as the card runs very cool.
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How is that 768mb version working out for you? I heard that they are a lot slower than 1GB versions, like 20 % slower.
 
it's not notably slower at all unless you play in very high resulotion where the 1GB makes a big difference. just search google for "460GTX 768MB review" and you'll find plenty of tests.
 
It's not the amount of memory that causes less performance, they reduce the amount of cores/shaders/whatever that are actually on the GPU die itself.
 
Stream processors are the same between the 1gb and 768mb. The difference is the 768mb only received a 192 bit memory bus VS the 1gb's 256 bit bus. This causes memory bandwidth to be much lower. Bandwidth for the 1gb is 115 gb/s and it's 86 gb/s on the 768mb card.
There's not a 20% difference, it's 10% tops. The lesser memory bandwidth and amount of memory only hurts if you run really high AA and AF settings with high resolution (1080p or higher). But anything up to 8x/8x will be pretty much unaffected. And also if running 1680x1050 or less the 768mb can handle anything you can throw at it then.
 
Nevakonaza said:
I wouldnt bother getting an Overclocked version that will probably cost $20-30 more than a standard clocked 460,You can overclock it yourself for free!

I have the GTX 460 768mb version,overclocked to the clocks you can see in my sig,ive not even touched the voltage so could possible go higher as the card runs very cool.
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thats a crazy OC you did to you GPU man :D
 
Matthew1990 said:
How is that 768mb version working out for you? I heard that they are a lot slower than 1GB versions, like 20 % slower.
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Its a really good card,people seem to diss the 768mb version saying its crap but they have probably not even tried one them them self.

20% slower..nah,if you compare both the 768mb and 1gb version on anandtech bench theres about 1-3fps diffrence between both the cards.

It runs games flawless,It does however struggle with Nvidia Sled demo,that brings it to its knees,But im not sure if that was developed for the GTX 480 so that might be why.

to the OP,if you can get the 2gb version someone posted above.that would be the perfect GTX 460.
 
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