14 DAY TRIAL // As there is always room for more video boards, and knowing the appeal of the freshness factor, EVGA decided it was time for its collection of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 video boards to expand, so it brought out two newcomers, both featuring the FTW name.
The GeForce GTX 460 released by NVIDIA some time ago is the most powerful of its cards for the mainstream, catering to the upper segment known as the performance market.
Already a multitude of custom-made adapters have reared their heads or outright started selling, and EVGA is eager to make another contribution, or two in this case.
As such, it developed the GeForce GTX 460 1024 FTW and the GTX 460 FTW 1024MB EE, Both of which have been tweaked and come with higher clocks than those of NVIDIA's original creation.
This leaves the cooling solutions as, in fact, the only noteworthy difference between them, the EE version being designed differently from the reference model.
For those interested in numbers, the GF104 graphics processing unit has a frequency of 850 MHz, which is a fair bit higher than the stock 675 MHz.
This leaves the 1GB of GDDR5 VRAM operating at 4,000 MHz, instead of 3,600 MHz, and the shaders clocked at 1,700 MHz (1,350 stock).
Both models have 336 CUDA cores, of course, and a memory interface of 256 bits, as well asobvious support for DirectX 11 and NVIDIA's own technologies (CUDA, PhysX, SLI etc.).
What's more, EVGA's cards are designed with dual-DVI and HDMI video outputs and a MOSFET heatsink that boosts stability.
The hardware maker has already added the non-EE and EE GTX 460 video boards to its official website and has given them prices of $260 and $270, respectively. Both are backed by a 2-year limited warranty and can be seen in detail on their product pages.
