Nov 24, 2010 10:08 GMT  ·  By

With NVIDIA having released a toned down version of the GeForce GTX 460, its partners were quite quick in making sure they had their own cards out more or less immediately, and Gigabyte has now brought out a version of its own.

The GeForce GTX 460 video board from NVIDIA has been around for many months already and has served the performance market quite well.

Mostly, it made an impression thanks to its good performance and far lower power draw compared to the more powerful GTX 470 and GTX 480.

As such, its maker saw fit to tweak it a bit and make it more accessible to even the bulk of the mid-end market.

This led to the development of the GeForce GTX 460 SE, where SE stands for second edition.

It is still based on the GF104 graphics processing unit (GPU), which means it comes with all the benefits of the Fermi architecture, DirectX 11 being just one of them. It also comes with DVI, HDMI and D-Sub (by adapter).

Nevertheless, the board has fewer CUDA cores, 288 to be exact, though the rest of the specifications were all Gigabyte's decision.

The newcomer has the GF104 running at a frequency of 740 MHz, which represents a significant jump over the stock 650 MHz.

Additionally, the shaders work at 1,460 MHz, while the 1 GB of GDDR5 VRAM has a clock speed of 3,400 MHz and a memory interface of 256 bits.

Finally, to deal with the extra heat, Gigabyte used not only an Ultra Durable PCB (printed circuit board) but also the WindForce 2X cooler, which comes with two fans.

Full information on any and all specifications can, of course, be found on Gigabyte's official website.

As for pricing and availability, pre-orders can already be set in Europe, for the sum of about 160 Euro.