ECS GTX 460 Black Series (NBGTX460-1GPI-F) Video Card Review

Posted By Gabriel Torres on Sep 21, 2010 in Video

Introduction

The ECS GTX 460 Black Series (NBGTX460-1GPI-F) comes with 1 GB GDDR5, pre-overclocked, and with a high-end cooling solution from Arctic Cooling. Let’s check it out.

The GeForce GTX 460 comes with higher core and shader clock rates (675 MHz and 1,350 MHz) than the GeForce GTX 465 and GeForce GTX 470 (607 MHz and 1,215 MHz for both of them). The memory clock used on the GeForce GTX 460 is actually higher than the one used on the more expensive models (3,600 MHz against 3,206 MHz on GeForce GTX 465 and 3,348 MHz on GeForce GTX 470), but the memory bus width depends on the GTX 460 model you have: the 768 MB model uses a 192-bit memory interface (translating into a 86.4 GB/s maximum theoretical transfer rate), while the 1 GB model uses a 256-bit interface (115.2 GB/s maximum theoretical transfer rate). The GeForce GTX 465 has a 256-bit memory interface (102.5 GB/s), and the GeForce GTX 470 has a 320-bit memory interface (133.92 GB/s). The main difference among the GTX 460, GTX 465 and GTX 470 is the number of graphics engines (a.k.a. “shaders” or “CUDA cores”): 336, 352, and 448, respectively. On the table below we compare the main specifications of the six video cards we included in our review. The GTX 460 Black Series model from ECS comes with a 13.3% overclocking.

Video Card	Core Clock	Shader Clock	Memory Clock (Real)	Memory Clock (Effective)	Memory Interface	Memory Transfer Rate	Memory	Shaders	DirectX
GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB)	675 MHz	1,350 MHz	900 MHz	3,600 MHz	192-bit	86.4 GB/s	768 GB GDDR5	336	11
GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB)	675 MHz	1,350 MHz	900 MHz	3,600 MHz	256-bit	115.2 GB/s	1 GB GDDR5	336	11
ECS GTX 460 Black Series	765 MHz	1,530 MHz	925 MHz	3,700 MHz	256-bit	118.4 GB/s	1 GB GDDR5	336	11
GeForce GTX 465	607 MHz	1,215 MHz	801.5 MHz	3,206 MHz	256-bit	102.6 GB/s	1 GB GDDR5	352	11
Radeon HD 5830	800 MHz	800 MHz	1 GHz	4 GHz	256-bit	128 GB/s	1 GB GDDR5	1,120	11
Radeon HD 5850	725 MHz	725 MHz	1 GHz	4 GHz	256-bit	128 GB/s	1 GB GDDR5	1,440	11

You can compare the specs of these video cards with other video cards by taking a look at our AMD ATI Chips Comparison Table and NVIDIA Chips Comparison Table tutorials.

Now let’s take a complete look at this model from ECS.

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