Palit GeForce GTX 460 Sonic Platinum

Nvidia’s release of the GF104 processor was a real breakthrough for the company which had not had an inexpensive chip to produce profitable mainstream graphics cards. The GF100 processor, the first in the Fermi series, was too expensive, hot, big and sophisticated to fill the part as the GeForce GTX 465 was a vivid example of: that GF100-based card could not deliver as much performance as its high price implied.

The GeForce GTX 460 has improved the situation dramatically. Now Nvidia offers two affordable solutions, the senior model of the new series being especially appealing: officially priced at $229, it supports all modern technologies including PhysX and CUDA and is much faster than the ATI Radeon HD 5830 and GeForce GTX 465, making the latter outdated.