14 DAY TRIAL // Not long ago, a certain Chinese website known as eNet.com suddenly dazzled the web by publishing a certain article that held information on the exact performance capabilities of NVIDIA's upcoming DirectX 11-capable graphics card based on the Fermi architecture. The article has since been pulled. Fortunately, though, the folks over at Hexus were able to gather the information on this adapter that is slated to engage the ATI Radeon HD 5830 one-on-one when it comes out next month.
Similar to the GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480, the GTX 465 showed mixed results in benchmarks. For instance, in NVIDIA-optimized games like Far Cry 2, the device actually outmatched the Radeon HD 5870. On the other hand, in Crysis Warhead, the video controller lost the race to the HD 5830. For those that want to make an even clearer idea, the GTX 465 was also subjected to tests under the eXtreme preset of 3DMark Vantage. The score it yielded was of 5,488, 20% less than what a GTX 470 can return.
Unlike the mainstream models that NVIDIA will release in late summer (based on the GF106 and GF108 GPUs), the GTX 465 will be enabled by the same GF100 that the 470 and 480 boast. This means that, in order to reach a lower TDP and price, its maker had to disable some of the chip's features.
This is precisely what occurred. For instance, five streaming multiprocessors (SM) are disabled, which puts the number of CUDA cores at 352, instead of 384. The GPU also has only 32 ROPs instead of 48 and just 1GB of GDDR5, with a 256-bit interface. There is no mention of a price at this point, but this final detail will be disclosed when the adapter is made official. This will happen at Computex, on the 3rd of June.
