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Nvidia's $200 GTX 460 Ups Bargain Performance

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the pixels-and-profits dept.

NervousNerd writes "Nvidia's first DirectX 11 offerings ran hot and offered a negligible performance difference compared to ATI's Radeon HD 5800 series for the cost. Also missing was the $200 mid-range part. But that stopped when Nvidia released the GTX 460 based on a modified version of their infamous Fermi architecture. The GTX 460 offers incredible performance for the price and soundly beats ATI's $200 offering, the HD 5830."

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  1. Re:Bargain? $200? by yincrash · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't think it's stupid to spend more than $100 on a video carrd (I definitely have), but it does seem hard to argue that $200 is a bargain priced video card. I would probably call it mid-range?

  2. Re:Bargain? $200? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Did you consult the dictionary before typing that? Bargain isn't related to how much something costs, but how much it is worth compared to how much it costs. This is a bargain.

  3. Re:Bargain? $200? by radicalpi · · Score: 5, Funny

    If 200$ is mid-range, what does that make 300$ and 400$ videocards, assuming we call 500-600$ videocards the high-end?

    Upper middle class with distinction

  4. Soundly beats the 5830? by dward90 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Soundly beating the 5830 is a stretch at best. On Tom's Hardware's Benchmark Results, the 460 is outperformed by the 5830 in every benchmark, Crysis, and AvP test. It loses sparingly in the rest of the games, but calling it the clear better of the 2 is just isn't realistic.

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