EVGA GeForce GTX 465 SuperClocked Video Card Review

Posted By Gabriel Torres on Jun 7, 2010 in Video

Introduction

GeForce GTX 465 is the latest DirectX 11-based graphics chip released by NVIDIA, being more accessible than the GTX 470 and GTX 480 models. At USD 280 – USD 300 it is quoted exactly between the Radeon HD 5830 (USD 240 – USD 275) and Radeon HD 5850 (USD 295 – USD 335). Let’s see how this factory-overclocked version from EVGA dubbed SuperClocked (SC) edition fared in our tests.

The new GeForce GTX 465 uses the same core and shader clock rates as GeForce GTX 470 (607 MHz and 1,215 MHz respectively), but it uses a 256-bit memory interface (GTX 470 uses a 320-bit memory interface) and a memory clock that is a little bit lower (3,206 MHz vs. 3,348 MHz). It also has a lower number of graphics engines (a.k.a. “shaders” or “CUDA cores”): 352 against 448. In the table below we compare the main specifications of the four video cards we included in our review. The SuperClocked model from EVGA comes with a small 3% overclocking.

Video Card	Core Clock	Shader Clock	Memory Clock (Real)	Memory Clock (Effective)	Memory Interface	Memory Transfer Rate	Memory	Shaders	DirectX
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
EVGA GeForce GTX 465 SC	625 MHz	1,250 MHz	805 MHz	3,220 MHz	256-bit	103 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 EVGA.

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