Gainward GeForce GTX 460 SE 1 GB @ techPowerUp

Shortly after the GTX 580 product release nVidia announced a new 400 series card designed to provide GTX 460 performance with slightly less cost.

Last week NVIDIA launched their GeForce GTX 460 SE which is designed to give a good price/performance level without compromising on memory amount. But is this enough to compete with the full GTX 460 variants that have 768 MB or 1 GB of memory?

Video memory, or the frame buffer, size is usually a good indicator of maximum resolution combined with texture size.  Simply put video quality.  Less memory means you'll have to run lower res to use the same size textures.  This was one of the main reasons the GTX 460 1GB was so much faster than the 768MB counterpart.  The SE comes with 1GB video ram but with a considerably slower GPU.

Normally this is also where I mention the Sexy Red PCB on most custom Gainward products, maybe one day we'll get to see some more Gainward gear grace the pages of Ninjalane.com

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