14 DAY TRIAL // NVIDIA may have finally made the official introduction of its GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 adapters, but neither of the two has managed to start selling, with the Santa Clara company, as well as its partners, still waiting for April 12. In the meantime, mainstream end-users will have to resign themselves to waiting for a few months to pass if they intend to buy an NVIDIA card of their own, as the existing two do not have a very wallet-friendly price or power consumption. Fortunately, the folks over at Expreview seem to have, at least, stumbled upon one of the cards that will address this segment.
The fact that NVIDIA plans to launch more affordable Fermi products during the second and third quarters of the ongoing year is not exactly news but, so far, there hasn't been any real information on what these cards will be able to do and how price-competitive they will be with the equivalent products from Advanced Micro Devices.
Now, the report reveals that, at the start of June, NVIDIA intends to release the GeForce GTX 460. This card will have specifications and a price point rivaling those of the ATI Radeon HD 5850. Unfortunately, the Expreview team was unable to find out all the specifics.
The few details that the report was able to uncover include the adapter's use of the P1025 reference PCB design, a memory interface of 256 bits and 1GB of GDDR5 memory. There is no word on how many processors the card will have, nor is there any hint as to what the clock frequencies will be. Unlike with the GTX 470 and GTX 480, however, it seems that NVIDIA's partners will be allowed to experiment with the design, which means that there should be a variety of GTX 460 offers at launch instead of the same card with a different sticker.
Unless NVIDIA decides, for whatever reasons, to delay this card, the official introduction should be made on June 1.