On The Bench: EVGA GeForce GTX 460 FTW

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By Don Woligroski
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EVGA is currently selling the fastest GeForce GTX 460 available, and yet this board didn't make it into our Radeon HD 6800 coverage, just to keep things fair. Now we're back with a look at how an overclocked 460 compares to the GTX 470 and Radeon HD 6870.

Benchmark Results: Civilization 5 (DX11)

Civilization V has two distinct areas where it can be tested: diplomacy and the map. The diplomatic view involves beautifully rendered versions of famous leaders like Alexander the Great and the Pharaoh Ramesses, while the map view involves representations of military forces on well-rendered terrain, using DirectX 11's tessellation features to help improve performance, rather than improving realism. We start with the leader benchmark, a test that does give us some comparative information about the products we're testing.

The results are so astronomical that any advantage here is entirely theoretical.

The GeForce cards perform well versus their Radeon counterparts, but all of the frame rates are quite high here.

Don Woligroski
82 Comments Comment from the forums
  • fstrthnu
    Heh, "FTW". Still, EVGA's done a pretty impressive job here. Still a standby till the Geforce GTX 560 comes, but this is pretty darn good heading into winter
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  • macer1
    Why not use the 10.12 beta drivers from AMD ?

    The current test used a 10.10 Beta driver which was more problematic then the 10.9 AMD drivers. Makes no sense to me.
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  • touchdowntexas13
    Typically I think factory overclocked cards are a waste of cash, but this seems like a pretty good value. I am very happy with my GTX 470, but if I could do it over I would of snatched up that GTX 460! The 470 is just so loud and hot. But it's whatever. The 460 didn't come out until 3 months after I bought the 470.
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  • dEAne
    If I to choose I will recommend the EVGA’s GTX460 FTW.
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  • Tamz_msc
    It'd be nice if Nvidia released a card sporting GF104 GPU and all eight streaming multiprocessors enabled, just to see what it can do.
    Bombard the the HD 6950? Maybe at a lesser price? Keeping my fingers crossed for the GTX 560 :D
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  • duk3
    GTX550= GTX460maxcore @ 850mhz :O
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  • IzzyCraft
    macer1Why not use the 10.12 beta drivers from AMD ? The current test used a 10.10 Beta driver which was more problematic then the 10.9 AMD drivers. Makes no sense to me.Because articles take time to write esp when you need to benchmark things.
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  • rohitbaran
    Well, this doesn't sound too good for AMD. A fully enable GTX 460, which will probably launch as GX560 will probably come close enough, if not equal to the Radeon 6950.
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  • Randomacts
    Really?? A bumper sticker??? hahah... wow..
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  • IzzyCraft
    RandomactsReally?? A bumper sticker??? hahah... wow..They didn't have enough fun tricking me into putting lame stickers on my expensive case when i was young so now they want me to put lame stickers on my car.
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