In three weeks the announcement of GeForce GTX 460 will take place, based on the specially developed video chip GF104. It is assumed that GeForce GTX 460 will consist of two similar video card, which are distinguished by the memory capacity and bus: 768 mb memory and 192- bit bus in the first case, and 1024 mb and 256- bit bus in the second case.
Associate confirmed that both versions GeForce GTX 460 will work at identical frequencies - 675/1350/3600 MHz, and also have 336 stream processors. It is considered that GF104 chip has 384 stream processors, but series video card will have only 336 of them active. Situation resembles to the GeForce GTX 480 - chip GF100 it also has 512 steam processors, but it is satisfied only by 480 active steam processors.
Due to the presence of 56 textural blocks and higher core frequencies GeForce GTX 460 will possess higher textures filling speed in comparison with GeForce GTX 470. Also are given the preliminary data about the speed level of GeForce GTX 460. The video card version with 768 mb GDDR5 memory in the test 3DMark vantage extreme at default frequencies collects about 6000 points, which approximately corresponds to productivity level Of GeForce GTX 465. The overclock of core to the frequency 830 MHz without an increase in the default voltage allow GeForce GTX 460 to pass in this test GeForce GTX 470 with the result of 8000 against 7650 points.
The recommended cost of GeForce GTX 460 version with 1024 mb memory will be equal to $249, and version with 768 mb memory is evaluated at $229.