14 DAY TRIAL // It seems that enough time experimenting with one of NVIDIA's graphics adapters has given Galaxy enough mastery over the board's build to create a version with a more compact cooling module.
As consumers may or may not know, the GeForce GTX 460 video card from NVIDIA has been on sale for a while now.
Basically, it is the Santa Clara, California-based Company's board aimed at the upper level of the mainstream market, otherwise known as the performance segment.
Based on the Fermi micro-architecture, it has support for advanced multimedia and gaming, being able to handle most recent titles at maximum settings.
Of course, since its launch, NVIDIA's various partners have modified the card according to their own tastes, most often making a factory overclocked and/or custom-cooled version.
Now, Galaxy though it was time to make a GTX 460 that, while staying faithful to the reference clocks, has a more compact build.
As DonanimHaber has it, the new board that Galaxy has in store for its customers is a GTX 460 that takes up a single PCI Express slot.
This should make it lighter and easier to set up in multi-GPU configurations on mainboards whose PCI Express slots are not as many or as far apart as two-slot cards would need for a successful SLI setup.
The actual feature set is unchanged. The card still uses the GF104 GPU, as well as 1 GB of GDDR5 VRAM.
The frequencies are of 657 MHz for the graphics processing unit, 1,350 MHz for the shaders and 3,600 MHz for the aforementioned memory.
Finally, the card, of course, boasts support for DirectX 11, CUDA, PhysX and, as already stated, SLI, among other things.
Unfortunately, the report had no sort of details on when or where this device will start selling, nor at what kind of price point.