So its slow, hot, power hungry and expensive! Where do I sign up? *sigh*
Can I make a minor suggestion when a card scores low among cards which are seen as direct competitors. How about throwing in a much cheaper card, such as a 5770 as a point of comparison. I seem to remember in previous card reviews, the list was a lot larger, but this one only has a few cards to compare against.
Power consumption that beats a 5870?! A £230 price tag?! Drop the price down to £200 maximum, ideally <£180 and you have a half decent card. Pricing it the same as a 5850 - that's just plain silly. On the other hand, SLI performance does do well as usual.
At least the temperatures are decent, right? Right? Aw, fudge it.
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Waiting for the 460 and confirmation of the rumour that it can perform as good as a 480 when OCed.
Thats just nVidia marketing typical bull****. It has half the processing power of the 480 so it really doesn't matter how much you overclock it, I really dont think you will hit that level of performance. A 465 cant even match the 5850 so how is a 460 going to beat a 5870 rofl...
PS: Semiaccurate would advise on not pining to many hopes on GF 104/106/108 being anything special. Infact they're likely to be more of the Fermi same!
Originally Posted by Matticus So its slow, hot, power hungry and expensive! Where do I sign up? *sigh*
Can I make a minor suggestion when a card scores low among cards which are seen as direct competitors. How about throwing in a much cheaper card, such as a 5770 as a point of comparison. I seem to remember in previous card reviews, the list was a lot larger, but this one only has a few cards to compare against.
yeah you really need to get a hardware league table going. it is very hard to compare older products / products not included in the given review.
Looks like this generation is all about ATI still. These fermi cards look to be the gas-guzzlers of GPU technology. Though given their previous dominance I suppose it's no bad thing to see the pendulum swing the other way this time around.
I think my GTX285 is still the best graphics card purchase yet. It still is enough to be good for the games I play, and gives the two fingers to the dx11 bandwagon that makes no distinct visual difference when im gaming.
Im hoping the 'better' of the 2 460's that are going to be released come in at around £150-£180 but perform similar to this 465,
Ive seen a few 465 SLi reviews and the fermi cards scale amazingly well, its just price thats the issue, If i could get 2xGTX460's for £300-£350 and get performance similar to 2x5850's then ill jump on it.
But as a single card solution ATi is still the far better option.
Originally Posted by Elton As of right now, Nvidia just needs to lower it's prices, unfortunately that isn't going to happen soon since they'll be losing even more money.
Although I wonder how many sales will balance it out?
If Nvidia lowers their prices ATI will do the same. as the current price is higher then at launch, they will have no problem whatsoever in cutting 20-30£ across the board. leaving us at status quo.
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ReplyShame about the card, I just don't think Nvidia realize how much they have screwed the pooch with fermi.
Can I make a minor suggestion when a card scores low among cards which are seen as direct competitors. How about throwing in a much cheaper card, such as a 5770 as a point of comparison. I seem to remember in previous card reviews, the list was a lot larger, but this one only has a few cards to compare against.
Power consumption that beats a 5870?! A £230 price tag?! Drop the price down to £200 maximum, ideally <£180 and you have a half decent card. Pricing it the same as a 5850 - that's just plain silly. On the other hand, SLI performance does do well as usual.
At least the temperatures are decent, right? Right? Aw, fudge it.
Just 3 from each manufacturer would be fine.
One budget, one mainstream, one top of the range.
Waiting for the 460 and confirmation of the rumour that it can perform as good as a 480 when OCed.
Thats just nVidia marketing typical bull****. It has half the processing power of the 480 so it really doesn't matter how much you overclock it, I really dont think you will hit that level of performance. A 465 cant even match the 5850 so how is a 460 going to beat a 5870 rofl...
A well written review, a shame about the conclusion!
Why? Because it doesn't recommend the card or that the card isn't worth recommending?
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/06/21/what-are-nvidias-gf104-gf106-and-gf108/
yeah you really need to get a hardware league table going. it is very hard to compare older products / products not included in the given review.
465 (which isn't much quicker then my 260 and that cost £130) £240
470 £290
Sad thing is if nvidia were more competitive wouldn't be surprised if ati could drop the 5850/5870 to 4850/4870 prices (i.e. sub £150).
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Compared to the previous generation, there price/performance ratio is shockingly bad.
They keep on throwing more and more shader cores at the problem, but bandwidth and fill rate are barely any better than the previous generation.....
Roll on 2011.......
and i agree with hustler
Ive seen a few 465 SLi reviews and the fermi cards scale amazingly well, its just price thats the issue, If i could get 2xGTX460's for £300-£350 and get performance similar to 2x5850's then ill jump on it.
But as a single card solution ATi is still the far better option.
Although I wonder how many sales will balance it out?
If Nvidia lowers their prices ATI will do the same. as the current price is higher then at launch, they will have no problem whatsoever in cutting 20-30£ across the board. leaving us at status quo.
But with better prices
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