NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460

Tailor made to hit the gamers’ sweet spot, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460 delivers revolutionary levels of price/performance. With up to 4x the DirectX 11 tessellation performance of the competition*, GeForce GTX 460 packs highly detailed visuals into your games - without sacrificing high frame rates. And with NVIDIA® 3D Vision™, PhysX®, and CUDA™ technologies, GeForce GTX 460 powers all the incredibly realistic effects that your games can throw its way.

	DX11 Done Right Treat your eyes to incredible visual details without sacrificing frame rates. With up to 4x¹ the geometry processing power over competing GPUs, you get incredibly detailed characters, terrain and game environments with blazing fast performance.
© 2009 THQ Inc. Metro 2033 is based on a book by Dmitry Glukhovskiy. THQ and the THQ logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of THQ Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Just Cause 2 image captured on NVIDIA GPU. Provided by Square Enix

Enter a New Dimension Breakthrough the boundaries of your screen. Games, Blu-ray movies, videos and photos enter a new dimension to delight your senses with 3D Vision technology.

Mafia II image captured on NVIDIA GPU. Provided by 2K Games.

Bang For Your Buck Get the perfect blend of power, performance, and price, without sacrificing your gaming experience. Blow away your enemies in full DirectX 11 graphics with NVIDIA PhysX® effects so realistic that you’ll have to remind yourself it’s just a game. Repeat: It’s just a game.

¹ GeForce GTX 460 has 4 times faster FPS versus Radeon HD 5830 in Microsoft DirectX 11 SDK subd11 tessellation test with maximum tessellation level set.

Features :

• Microsoft^® DirectX^® 11 Support
  DirectX 11 GPU with Shader Model 5.0 support designed for ultra high performance in the new API’s key graphics feature, GPU-accelerated tessellation.
• NVIDIA PhysX^® Technology
  Full support for NVIDIA PhysX technology, enabling a totally new class of physical gaming interaction for a more dynamic and realistic experience with GeForce.
• NVIDIA^® 3D Vision™ Ready*
  GeForce GPU support for NVIDIA 3D Vision, bringing a fully immersive stereoscopic 3D experience to the PC. A combination of high-tech wireless glasses and advanced software, 3D Vision transforms hundreds of PC games into full stereoscopic 3D. In addition, you can watch 3D movies and 3D digital photographs in eye popping, crystal-clear quality.

• NVIDIA^® 3D Vision™ Surround Ready**
  Expand your games across three displays in full stereoscopic 3D for the ultimate “inside the game” experience with the power of NVIDIA 3D Vision and SLI technologies. NVIDIA^® Surround™ also supports triple screen gaming with non-stereo displays.
• NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology
  CUDA technology unlocks the power of the GPU’s processor cores to accelerate the most demanding tasks such as video transcoding, physics simulation, ray tracing, and more, delivering incredible performance improvements over traditional CPUs.
• NVIDIA SLI^® Technology***
  Industry leading NVIDIA SLI technology offers amazing performance scaling for the world’s premier gaming solution.
• 32x Anti-aliasing Technology
  Lightning fast, high-quality anti-aliasing at up to 32x sample rates obliterates jagged edges.
• NVIDIA^® PureVideo^® HD Technology****
  The combination of high-definition video decode acceleration and post-processing that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for movies and video.
• PCI Express 2.0 Support
  Designed for the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture offering the highest data transfer speeds for the most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications, while maintaining backwards compatibility with existing PCI Express motherboards for the broadest support.
• Dual-link DVI Support
  Able to drive industry’s largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays up to 2560x1600 and with support for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP).
• HDMI 1.4a Support*****
  Fully integrated support for HDMI 1.4a including GPU accelerated Blu-ray 3D4 support, xvYCC, deep color, and 7.1 digital surround sound including Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD. Upgrade your GPU to full 3D capability with NVIDIA 3DTV Play software, enabling 3D gaming, picture viewing and 3D web video streaming. See www.nvidia.com/3dtv for more details.

Specification :

Tailor made to hit the gamers’ sweet spot, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460 delivers revolutionary levels of price/performance. With up to 4x the DirectX 11 tessellation performance of the competition*, GeForce GTX 460 packs highly detailed visuals into your games - without sacrificing high frame rates. And with NVIDIA® 3D Vision™, PhysX®, and CUDA™ technologies, GeForce GTX 460 powers all the incredibly realistic effects that your games can throw its way.

	DX11 Done Right Treat your eyes to incredible visual details without sacrificing frame rates. With up to 4x¹ the geometry processing power over competing GPUs, you get incredibly detailed characters, terrain and game environments with blazing fast performance.
© 2009 THQ Inc. Metro 2033 is based on a book by Dmitry Glukhovskiy. THQ and the THQ logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of THQ Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Just Cause 2 image captured on NVIDIA GPU. Provided by Square Enix

Enter a New Dimension Breakthrough the boundaries of your screen. Games, Blu-ray movies, videos and photos enter a new dimension to delight your senses with 3D Vision technology.

Mafia II image captured on NVIDIA GPU. Provided by 2K Games.

Bang For Your Buck Get the perfect blend of power, performance, and price, without sacrificing your gaming experience. Blow away your enemies in full DirectX 11 graphics with NVIDIA PhysX® effects so realistic that you’ll have to remind yourself it’s just a game. Repeat: It’s just a game.

¹ GeForce GTX 460 has 4 times faster FPS versus Radeon HD 5830 in Microsoft DirectX 11 SDK subd11 tessellation test with maximum tessellation level set.

• Microsoft^® DirectX^® 11 Support
  DirectX 11 GPU with Shader Model 5.0 support designed for ultra high performance in the new API’s key graphics feature, GPU-accelerated tessellation.
• NVIDIA PhysX^® Technology
  Full support for NVIDIA PhysX technology, enabling a totally new class of physical gaming interaction for a more dynamic and realistic experience with GeForce.
• NVIDIA^® 3D Vision™ Ready*
  GeForce GPU support for NVIDIA 3D Vision, bringing a fully immersive stereoscopic 3D experience to the PC. A combination of high-tech wireless glasses and advanced software, 3D Vision transforms hundreds of PC games into full stereoscopic 3D. In addition, you can watch 3D movies and 3D digital photographs in eye popping, crystal-clear quality.
• NVIDIA^® 3D Vision™ Surround Ready**
  Expand your games across three displays in full stereoscopic 3D for the ultimate “inside the game” experience with the power of NVIDIA 3D Vision and SLI technologies. NVIDIA^® Surround™ also supports triple screen gaming with non-stereo displays.
• NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology
  CUDA technology unlocks the power of the GPU’s processor cores to accelerate the most demanding tasks such as video transcoding, physics simulation, ray tracing, and more, delivering incredible performance improvements over traditional CPUs.
• NVIDIA SLI^® Technology***
  Industry leading NVIDIA SLI technology offers amazing performance scaling for the world’s premier gaming solution.
• 32x Anti-aliasing Technology
  Lightning fast, high-quality anti-aliasing at up to 32x sample rates obliterates jagged edges.
• NVIDIA^® PureVideo^® HD Technology****
  The combination of high-definition video decode acceleration and post-processing that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for movies and video.
• PCI Express 2.0 Support
  Designed for the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture offering the highest data transfer speeds for the most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications, while maintaining backwards compatibility with existing PCI Express motherboards for the broadest support.
• Dual-link DVI Support
  Able to drive industry’s largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays up to 2560x1600 and with support for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP).
• HDMI 1.4a Support*****
  Fully integrated support for HDMI 1.4a including GPU accelerated Blu-ray 3D4 support, xvYCC, deep color, and 7.1 digital surround sound including Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD. Upgrade your GPU to full 3D capability with NVIDIA 3DTV Play software, enabling 3D gaming, picture viewing and 3D web video streaming. See www.nvidia.com/3dtv for more details.

^* NVIDIA 3D Vision requires 3D Vision glasses and a 3D Vision-Ready monitor. See www.nvidia.com/3dvision for more information.
^** NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround require two or more graphics cards in NVIDIA SLI configuration, 3D Vision glasses and three matching 3D Vision-Ready displays. See www.nvidia.com/surround for more information.
^*** A GeForce GTX 460 GPU must be paired with another GeForce GTX 460 GPU (graphics card manufacturer can be different) with the same frame buffer size. SLI requires sufficient system cooling and a compatible power supply. Visit www.slizone.com for more information and a listing of SLI-Certified components.
^**** Supported video software is required to experience certain features. Visit www.nvidia.com for more details.
^***** Blu-ray 3D playback requires the purchase of a compatible software player from CyberLink, ArcSoft, Corel, or Sonic

HardOCP
“There was no time in this evaluation whence the GeForce GTX 460 did not set itself apart as a superior product. Even when performance was merely equaled, it was quieter and using less power... we have simply never seen such an incredible value in a $200 video card before.”

AnandTech
“The $200 King….The end result is a $200 - $230 part that’s better than anything else at those prices on the market today.”

PC Perspective
“The new GeForce GTX 460 1GB, with its $229 standard price tag, looks like a perfect solution for [StarCraft II] as it even allows you to run at 4xAA settings and maintain a good overall experience”

FiringSquad
“it beats the similarly priced Radeon…while bringing exclusive features like PhysX, 3D Vision, and CUDA to the table….anyone in their right mind would have to take them into consideration when looking for a new graphics card.”

ComputerShopper
“The GTX 460 easily becomes the new card to beat for gamers on a budget.”

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GPU Engine Specs:

Graphics card version	GTX 460 1GB GDDR5	GTX 460 768MB GDDR5	GTX 460 SE
CUDA Cores	336	336	288
Graphics Clock (MHz)	675 MHz	675 MHz	650 MHz
Processor Clock (MHz)	1350 MHz	1350 MHz	1300 MHz
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec)	37.8	37.8	31.2

Memory Specs:

Graphics card version	GTX 460 1GB GDDR5	GTX 460 768MB GDDR5	GTX 460 SE
Memory Clock	1800	1800	1700
Standard Memory Config	1 GB GDDR5	768MB GDDR5	1 GB GDDR5
Memory Interface Width	256-bit	192-bit	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)	115.2	86.4	108.8

Feature Support:

NVIDIA SLI®-ready*	2-Way
NVIDIA 3D Vision Ready
NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround Ready***
NVIDIA PureVideo® Technology**	HD
NVIDIA PhysX™-ready
NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology
Microsoft DirectX	11
OpenGL	4.1
Bus Support	PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Certified for Windows 7

Standard Graphics Card Dimensions:

Height	4.376 inches (111 mm)
Length	8.25 inches (210 mm)
Width	Dual-slot

Thermal and Power Specs:

Maximum GPU Temperature (in C)	104 C
Maximum Graphics Card Power (W)	160 W
Minimum Recommended System Power (W)	450 W
Supplementary Power Connectors	6-pin & 6-pin