14 DAY TRIAL // It seems that the GeForce GTX 460 SE is not the type of card to be released by just one of NVIDIA's partners, as EVGA has now come forth and announced not one but two such boards.
When it first came out, the GeForce GTX 460 from NVIDIA was quite well received by the market, especially compared to the enthusiast-grade GTX 470 and 480.
Still, its performance and price kept it more or less confirmed to the higher level of the mainstream and above.
Now, EVGA has created two new video controllers, the GeForce GTX 460 SE (Special Edition) and GeForce GTX 460 SE Superclocked, which have 288 CUDA cores instead of 336.
As one can guess from the names, the former stays faithful to the reference design, while the second one features factory overclocking.
The 'regular' SE card has the GF104 running at 650 MHz, the shaders clocked at 1,300 MHz and the 1 GB of GDDR5 memory operating at 3,400 MHz.
The second board, as already stated, is faster, with the GPU working at 720 MHz, the shaders at 1,440 MHz and the VRAM at 3,600 MHz.
Both have a memory interface of 256 bits and can connect to various displays via dual-DVI and HDMI outputs.
Needless to say, DirectX 11 graphics (which include such things as tessellation and DirectCompute, among other things) are fully supported, as are NVIDIA's own technologies.
The list includes PhysX, CUDA, Blu-ray 3D and SLI (for multi-GPU configuration).
All in all, the newcomers are meant as a more affordable alternative to the original GTX 460 and have already started being listed.
The EVGA GTX 460 SE sells for $179.99, whereas the GTX 460 Superclocked has a price tag of $189.99. Both are backed up by a two-year warranty and can be seen in detail here.