New Palit GTX460 Sonic Uses 2GB GDDR5

12% increase at 1080p is cool so will be waiting for TH to do a review on this card. Usually these higher than normal memory video cards from generic brands don't pan out though but hopefully it will this time around.

Not a bad looking card there. Wonder how much more the extra GB of ram adds to the price. Probably will be the best way to go for SLI, what with the extra ram and all.

Sweet! What is the price?

this would be great for those thinking to use this in SLI for Surround gaming.

Rumors say around $280.

Price range is about $259-269.

This is a simple marketing move, by the time this card needs 2GB ram at some arbitrary high resolution, it is already fill rate limited. So the extra ram won't do much good, if at all.

It may not do much for gaming but it would be phenomenal using Adobe's Mercury Playback Engine. That is something which seems to be strictly hindered by available video memory. I almost bought a Palit GTX 460 on Monday but decided to wait a bit and am now glad that I did.

I'm sticking with ATI..

Bah, who cares about all these kiddie gamer video cards?? I use an ATI X1600 from 2006. Works perfectly, does everything I need it to. If I want to play games, I turn on my PS3.

Just what I need to enjoy GTA IV while being a meaningful upgrade over my two 9800gt 1gb editions on my game rig.

got my 4870 for $80

I get it, for many this is just a marketing move. I respect this opinion but I now see this differently. I recently purchased a GPU based rendering software only works on Nvidia CUDA programing language on gamonig or Pro cards (OctaneRender). For this software the memory installed on the GPU is critical as this is the only memory the software uses. Two 2 GB 460 card are more appealing to me as I could use a combined none SLI 2 x 460 card setup for a total 670 CUDA cores and 2 GB of total memory for less than $600. The software is capable to use the combined CUDA cores power of 2 GPUs but the memory needs to load all resources on each GPU so It wont see a 4GB of total memory.

Also, I read some researchers using CUDA could use the 2GB memory on a gaming card as a cheap replacement for 4GB TESLA GPUs. I think this move is appealing to none gamers, but I can't say some gamers wont find this useful.

That extra gig really isn't helping anything with performance level card. Some suckers still go for it.

Actually Palit is not generic. They have large market penetration in Europe.

How much gain over 1 GB version? I mean is the card even capable of utilizing that much memory? 2 GB 5870 doesn't seem to benefit much, so I doubt a GTX 460 will get any noticeable boost.

Makes me wonder if they're going to put VRM heatsinks on this time.

hopefully evga will follow suit. I like a lifetime warranty.

Man you beat me to it...

I read it as a 12% performance increase over the 285 2gb.

That's what I see as well. Doesn't really seem like a huge upgrade in its-self but that's 12% PLUS dx11 PLUS far better cuda PLUS 100% scaling if you do sli etc... None of those features alone would be worth the money, but combined.. I don't think it's a bad deal.

Never heard of them, they don´t sell in most Western Europe.

I hope one day one company will release a GTX 460 with 3-way and 4-way SLI support. If it scales so well with 2-way SLI, I hope that it can scale as well beyond that.

I hope you live in Europe when stating such thing.

Because we are no.1 discrete graphic card seller and brand in Europe unless you can name a brand that is no.1.

They're available in the UK though, so that's all-right.

As it's a mid-range card that is highly unlikely to happen, 3 and 4 way SLi is reserved for the high end cards just as the low end lose SLi altogether.

If you dont care about video cards, Honestly why bother reading obvious article such as this then POSTING? I dont know about you but if it's something i dont care about, i dont read it.

Now as for gaming, PC rules over game consoles. Much more up to date hardware, far better graphics, best of all you got a wide variety of uses of a pc. Game consoles, even with all there add-on of multi media features, there still highly limited use (and getting smaller like Linux OS feature removed).

Now run along play on your outdated ps3 and dont read on articles you wont care for.

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Anyways, +1 for Cryogenic.

1GB is good for the card but unless you got cuda apps that could use the 2GB's in that card, Im doubtful that gaming will benefit from it due to the limited bandwidth.

Palit is a great brand. One of the things they've done well is use custom cooling options, not found on many of the other brands. They cater to the enthusiast market. From my experience, everything they do seems to be top notch.

They do make great product. I think only reason why people dislike them is because this big company do not offer life-time warranty.

But hey, they tried and have 2 year warranty for now. I think I read on the forums they are trying to push for life-time warranty but it does conflict with their other regions.

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LMAO! If only that were true! Have you read the number of comments on any Mac or iPhone news article here on Toms? The vast majority are by people who do not own, and do not intend to own an Apple product! Ha!