14 DAY TRIAL // August has finally started off and, as AMD and NVIDIA get ready to unleash their respective batches of new products, their partners are hard at work making new iterations of those devices that have already shown up. Not too long ago, Gainward made quite a few ripples on the graphics front by releasing a special version of the mainstream GTX 460 with a full 2GB of GDDR5 memory. Now, Palit has doubled that offer with its own 2GB model.
Palit practically owns Gainward, so it would not exactly have suffered from leaving that card as the only available 2GB beast, but multiple branding is always a sound marketing strategy and, thus, the Palit GeForce GTX 460 2GB Sonic came to be. This adapter bears all the parts that NVIDIA's original features, only it comes with modified clock speeds.
As end-users no doubt are aware by now, at least to some extent, the GTX 460 is built around the GF104 graphics processing unit. On the reference model, this GPU works at 675 MHz, but Palit went ahead and overclocked it to 700 MHz. The board also boasts 336 CUDA cores, with a shader frequency of 1,400 MHz, and a memory interface of 256 bits. Furthermore, the aforementioned 2GB of VRAM are clocked at 3,800 MHz. All in all, this product should prove quite lucrative in the hands, or systems in this case, of those performance users that run memory-intensive applications.
Needless to say, the newcomer has full support for DirectX 11 and the various technologies that NVIDIA came up with over the years, such as SLI multi-GPU setups, CUDA and, of course, 3D Vision Surround. Finally, the board connects to displays via D-Sub, DVI and HDMI outputs and has a reported price of 239.90 Euro, though exact availability details have not been given.