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EVGA GeForce GTX 460 768MB SC SLI Video Card Review

Manufacturer: eVGA
Product: 768-P3-1362-AR
Date: Fri, Jul 16, 2010 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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EVGA GeForce GTX 460 768MB Overclocking

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 Video Card Base Clocks

The EVGA GeForce GTX 460 768MB video cards start off life at 675MHz on the core clock, 1350MHz on the shaders and 900MHz on the GDDR5 memory. The GeForce GTX 460 has plenty of room left into it for overclocking since it has two 6-pin power connectors on the board. This along with the 75mm cooling fan and 4Gbps memory ICs means that the GeForce GTX 460 has plenty of thermal/power headroom for you to discover by overclocking. We used EVGA Precision to overclock our video card SuperClocked review sample in SLI.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 Overclocking

NVIDIA claims the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 video card is an overclocker's dream, but we will figure that out on our own!

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 Video Card Stock 763MHz/3800MHz:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 Video Card Base Clocks

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 Video CardOverclocked 850MHz/3900MHz:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 Video Card Base Clocks
Running 3DMark Vantage with the Extreme preset we got a base score of X13084 with our SLI test configuration.  By raising the core clock from 763MHz to 850MHz on both cards and bumping up the memory just 25MHz we were able to get a nice boost in performance. With the factory overclocked card overclocked even higher in SLI we were able to get the 3DMark Vantage score up to X14729 3DMarks.  This is an improvement of 12.6%. Not bad for an SLI setup that was already faster than pretty much any single graphics card on the market today!
 
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 Video Card Vantage Overclock

This overclock puts the EVGA GeForce GTX 460 768MB SuperClocked SLI setup ahead of the GeForce GTX480 and the Radeon HD 5970! Not bad for a pair of $219.99 graphics cards.  The total investment here in the video cards is $440, which is less than the Radeon HD 5970 and about what you can pick up a GeForce GTX480 for.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 Video Card AvP Overclock

We tried out the SLI overclock in AvP and found a nice 7.2% jump in performance at 1920x1200 with all of the graphics settings maxed out.  Overclocking the EVGA GeForce GTX 460 768MB cards will bring you significant performance increases as you can see from our overclocked testing.

Next Page - Final Thoughts and Conclusions


Review Index
Page 1 - GeForce GTX 460 SLI Benchmarking
Page 2 - The EVGA GeForce GTX 460 768MB SuperClocked
Page 3 - Retail Box and Bundle
Page 4 - Video Card Test System
Page 5 - Batman: Arkham Asylum
Page 6 - Resident Evil 5
Page 7 - Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
Page 8 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 9 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 10 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 11 - Aliens vs. Predator
Page 12 - FurMark 1.8.2
Page 13 - Power Consumption
Page 14 - Temperature Testing
Page 15 - EVGA GeForce GTX 460 768MB Overclocking
Page 16 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions