gtx 460 tested with 10 games and 10 different cpu's!

[happy medium]

Some real cool info here.

http://translate.google.com/transla...o/gigabyte-gtx-460-oc-10-jocuri-10-procesoare

 

[RussianSensation]

That upgraded cooling on the Gigabyte board sure looks good (and quieter than the stock version).

Mostly what I expected -- mid-range card works well with mid-range processors such as X3 435 and X4 635. After xbitlabs showing CPU bottlenecking at 4AA, it's even more interesting that in some games there is still a CPU bottleneck even at 8AA 1920x1200 with a mid-range GPU. Glad to see another website show that you'll want a decent quad core for GTX480 type speeds or higher. DX11 games though are far too GPU limited due to the intensive effects! This explains why CPU speed is almost irrelevant on such a card.

Great article happy!

 

[Skurge]

Great article, terrible graphs.


Oh and Happy, how did you end up on a Romanian website?

 

[toyota]

lol at the E2140 in most games.

 

[Grooveriding]

The 460 can't give playable frames in Crysis and Metro at 1680x1050 ? Also barely playable in AvP and Stalker at 1920x1080.

GTX 285 gives the same framerate at 1920x1200 as the 460 does at the lower res of 1680x1050 ?

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article/2009/01/15/evga_geforce_gtx_285_ssc_edition/3

Hrmph, thought it had more juice than that. I'm sure it can offer playable frames if turn down the graphics settings though.

 

[toyota]

The 460 can't give playable frames in Crysis and Metro at 1680x1050 ? Also barely playable in AvP and Stalker at 1920x1080.

GTX 285 gives the same framerate at 1920x1200 as the 460 does at the lower res of 1680x1050 ?

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article/2009/01/15/evga_geforce_gtx_285_ssc_edition/3

Hrmph, thought it had more juice than that. I'm sure it can offer playable frames if turn down the graphics settings though.

um they put the card at a VERY unrealistic settings for those games. DX10 enthusiast(very high) and 8x AA is not a setting someone with any common sense would use on a gtx460. with Metro2033 they clearly have tessellation, advanced DOF and are forcing AA which again are not settings that any single gpu can run much less a gtx460.

 

[dookulooku]

The 460 can't give playable frames in Crysis and Metro at 1680x1050 ? Also barely playable in AvP and Stalker at 1920x1080.

GTX 285 gives the same framerate at 1920x1200 as the 460 does at the lower res of 1680x1050 ?

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article/2009/01/15/evga_geforce_gtx_285_ssc_edition/3

Hrmph, thought it had more juice than that. I'm sure it can offer playable frames if turn down the graphics settings though.

1. In general, you can't compare benchmarks for a particular app across different sites, unless it's a built-in benchmark or something like 3dmark. Different sites have different testing methodology.

2. The GTX 285 in the Hardocp review is overclocked, plus it's NOT running the same settings. It's running at GAMER settings, except for the options listed in the box, which are ENTHUSIAST settings. All enthusiast settings would lower the frame rates by about 25-30%.

 

[netxzero64]

very helpful article though... you can gauge yourself to where you stand on gaming performance

 

[toyota]

very helpful article though... you can gauge yourself to where you stand on gaming performance

not really because some of the games were ran at extremely unrealistic settings that a gtx460 cannot handle.

 

[netxzero64]

and lousy graphs...

 

[Grooveriding]

um they put the card at a VERY unrealistic settings for those games. DX10 enthusiast(very high) and 8x AA is not a setting someone with any common sense would use on a gtx460. with Metro2033 they clearly have tessellation, advanced DOF and are forcing AA which again are not settings that any single gpu can run much less a gtx460.

True, the Crysis settings at 1920x1080 with 8xaa are unrealistic, but the 1680x1050 settings with 2xaa are reasonable, and it still does not deliver playable frames.

I would of thought at that res you could play games on their highest settings, but the 460 looks to still need to be set to medium settings to deliver playable framerates in modern games.

 

[toyota]

True, the Crysis settings at 1920x1080 with 8xaa are unrealistic, but the 1680x1050 settings with 2xaa are reasonable, and it still does not deliver playable frames.

I would of thought at that res you could play games on their highest settings, but the 460 looks to still need to be set to medium settings to deliver playable framerates in modern games.

playable in Crysis/Warhead is anything better than 25-30 for an average so really just knock of the AA at 1680 while using enthusiast settings and it would be perfectly fine. not to mention they could have easily used DX9 in Warhead while still using enthusiast settings which would also give a few more fps.

 

[Grooveriding]

playable in Crysis/Warhead is anything better than 25-30 for an average so really just knock of the AA at 1680 while using enthusiast settings and it would be perfectly fine. not to mention they could have easily used DX9 in Warhead while still using enthusiast settings which would also give a few more fps.

So.. dialing down the settings ? It's not big a deal, 460 SLI is pretty impressive, I just thought a single 460 would of been able to outdo a 285.