14 DAY TRIAL // After NVIDIA unleashed the performance-grade GeForce GTX 460 DirectX 11-capable graphics adapter, its manufacturing partners went out of their way to release their own versions, overclocked or otherwise, and Club 3D has just come out and unveiled its latest pair of such adapters, quaintly named GeForce GTX 460 Overclocked Edition.
The two newcomers differentiate themselves from each other through little, if anything, besides their memory capacity.
One of the cards is a boosted model with 768MB of GDDR5, whereas the other one is, predictably, equipped with 1GB of VRAM, and this is, in fact, the only difference between the two.
The two Club 3D GeForce GTX 460 Overclocked Edition have the GF104 graphics processing unit clocked at 750 MHz, instead of the stock 675 MHz, and the VRAM set at 3,800 MHz, as opposed to 3,600 MHz.
Another element that the video boards have in common is their dual-slot cooling solution, which sees to the task of making sure that the extra MHz don't cause the device's untimely death.
What's more, the Fermi video cards have a memory interface of 192 bits (256 bits on the 1GB), a maximum digital resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels, a maximum analogue resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels and dual-DVI and mini HDMI outputs, for compatibility with a wide range of monitors.
Needless to say, the video cards fully support PCI Express 2.0, HDMI 1.4, 32x Anti-Aliasing and NVIDIA's various proprietary technologies, such as 3D Vision surround, 2-way SLI (for multi-GPU setups), CUDA, PhysX, PureVideo HD.
All in all, these newcomers should further intensify the competition on the video front, not just between NVIDIA and AMD products, but also between the former's various manufacturing partners.
The GTX 460 Overclocked Edition with 768MB of GDDR5 is listed, in Europe, with a price of 209 Euro, whereas the 1GB model sells for 215.38 Euro.