This video card overclocks like a demon and it offers the best price performance ratio of the GTX-4xx family. In other words an affordable Fermi. In the past the GeForce 8800GT was a graphics card with a great price performance ratio and also was a great overclocker, that's what the GTX-460 lineup reminds us of. Two GTX460 cards in SLI would be a great combination.

Overclocking:

The reviewers reached 855MHz GPU core and 1170MHz memory, so they got an 180MHz core speed increase and 270MHz memory speed increase. A 270MHz GDDR5 memory speed increase is very high but the reviewers ran both GPU's at the OC speed in 3D Mark Vantage and several games and saw no evidence of corruption or artifacts, they both also tested clean in ATI Tool.

Benchmarks:

3D Mark Vantage, Metro 2033, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Dirt2, Stone Giant, Unigine Heaven, Crysis, Crysis Warhead, Stalker COP, temperatures, thermal properties, power consumption.

Test Setup:

• Computer Case : Silverstone Raven 2
• Processor : Intel Core I7 980 Extreme
• Mainboard : Asus Rampage 3
• Memory : Kingston HyperX 12GB 1600 MHz 9-9-9-24
• Air Cooler Thermalright Ultra 120 RT (Dual 120mm Fans)
• HDD : 2x Corsair P128 Raid 0, 3x Seagate Constellation 2x RAID 0, 1x Storage
• Optical Drive : Asus BD Combo
• Power supply : Silverstone Strider 1500 Watt

Compared to:

• Asus EAH5870 Voltage Tweak
• Asus GTX-465 Voltage Tweak
• Asus GTX-470 Voltage Tweak
• Asus HD5970
• Gigabyte HD5870 SOC
• Gigabyte HD Radeon 5870
• Gigabyte HD Radeon 4890 OC
• Nvidia GTX-460 768MB
• Nvidia GTX-460 1GB
• Nvidia GTX-480
• PNY GTX-470
• Visiontek HD Radeon 5870