The problem with getting the best in graphical performance is that the experience doesn’t come cheap. The price tags attached to high-end graphics cards skyrocket. Now Nvidia has announced something for both high-end as well as cost conscious gamers. The GeForce GTX 460, the latest edition to its Fermi-class of GPUs, delivers DirectX 11 gaming but is priced in the 199 USD range, something the company claims is the market’s “sweet spot”.
Built for DirectX 11 tessellation, the GeForce GTX 460 GPU is capable of up to 4 times tessellation performance over what the company calls “competing GPUs”. Either way next-generation DX11 gaming is brought to a new price segment.
The Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 comes in two versions – the GTX 460 768MB with a 192-bit memory interface and an 86.4 GB/sec memory bandwidth, and the GTX 460 1GB with a 256-bit memory interface and a 115.2 GB/sec memory bandwidth. Both versions have 336 Cuda cores, a 675 MHz graphics clock, and a 1350 MHz processor clock.
The GTX 460 768MB graphics card is available at retailers at an estimated price of 199 USD (approx. Rs. 9,300) while the GTX 460 1GB graphics card is priced at 229 USD (approx. Rs. 10,705).