14 DAY TRIAL // NVIDIA was quite prompt in its delivery of the GeForce GTX 460 graphics card and, of course, so were its various manufacturing partners. Already the market is swarming with a myriad of customized cards, each with its own clock tweaks and special coolers. Club 3D decided to stay closer to what NVIDIA had in mind, however, so it only built a pair of video board that, while not boosted in terms of performance, have prices similar to those that NVIDIA chose.
Predictably, the two newcomers differ from each other through their memory capacity and bandwidth. Specifically, Club 3D made one with 768 MB of GDDR5 VRAM, as well as one with 1GB of memory. Their memory interfaces are of 192 bits and 256 bits, respectively. Also, obviously, the video boards are based on the GF104 Fermi graphics processing unit.
The GF104 GPU is based on the 40nm manufacturing process technology and has a clock speed of 675 MHz, on both versions of the device. Club 3D also preserved the number of 336 CUDA cores. That said, the shaders operate at a speed of 1,350 MHz, whereas the VRAM runs at 3,600 MHz. Furthermore, besides the obligatory DirectX 11, the products support HDMI 1.4, NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology, 32x anti-aliasing, CUDA, PhysX, 3D Vision surround and, of course, 2-way SLI for multi-GPU configurations.
Club 3D threw in dual-slot coolers on and dual-DVI outputs besides the obligatory HDMI port. This should let the devices communicate with a wide range of displays. Finally, unlike tis rivals, the hardware maker chose not to disclose the prices of its latest creations as of yet. Still, considering their specs, one can assume that the 768 MB card costs around $200 and the other revolves around $230. Either way, this final bit of information shouldn't stay under wraps for long.