14 DAY TRIAL // NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 460 today, and its partners ASUS, EVGA and Sparkle, among others, immediately followed up with custom models. These three definitely went off-script and offered factory overclocked models of the video boards, and Sparkle even brought out one with no less than a full 2GB of GDDR5. Nevertheless, none of them can claim to actually match what ECS did with its own Black GTX 460. Though one might think a jump from 675 MHz to 753 MHz is impressive, it is hardly comparable to what ECS pulled off.
Apparently, the company wanted to really give an impression of what Elitegroup means, so it actually drove the frequency of the GF104 graphics processing unit all the way up to 800 MHz. This makes it one of the more fearsome beasts on the market right now, at least as far as the mainstream/performance segment is concerned. This frequency also suggests a shader clock of 1,600 MHz. Other specifications include 1GB of GDDR5 VRAM, an interface of 256 bits and 336 CUDA cores.
The Black GTX 460 is, basically, its maker's flagship GTX 460. It, of course, supports all the special technologies that NVIDIA makes a point of providing. This includes OpenGL 4.0, 2-way SLI multi-GPU setups, PhysX, DirectX 11 (obviously) and even 3D Vision Surround. Finally, it boasts dual-DVI and HDMI outputs. This board will be sold alongside a 768 MB model with a memory bus of 192 bits but, unfortunately, pricing details have not been disclosed yet.
“Targeting at the high-end segment, ECS Black GTX 460 graphics card delivers a stunning gaming effects with its genuine hardware and firmware design, which bring the critical gamers over 20% overclocking capability and boost the gaming power far more than reference designed graphics card,” states the official announcement.