Galaxy Nvidia GeForce GTX 465 Review
Nvidia launched their much anticipated DX11 video cards about a month ago, the GTX 480 and the GTX 470, to much fanfare. We posted our review of the GTX 480, published by our own Senior editor Mark Poppin here, here and here. He concluded that the GTX 480 was the fastest single video card. Along with premiere performance comes a premiere price tag of $499 MSRP. This price tag is out of the range of many users and casual gamers who are not looking to play at the highest resolutions but still want the new features such as DX11 and hardware tessellation. For them Nvidia is launching the GTX 465 today which is built from the same GPU and technology powering the GTX 480 and the GTX 470. The GTX 465 will be Nvidia’s attack on the mid-range $200-$300 price segment in between the HD 5830 and the HD 5850 pricing. This is a hard launch with the boards available for purchase even before launch on Newegg.com. Link.
The GPU in the GTX 465 is the same as the one used in the GTX 470 and the GTX 480. This is possible due to the industrial practice of die harvesting the GPUs that do not have fully functional units to make up the required number of Streaming Multiprocessors (SM) for the GTX 470 and the GTX 480. These GPUs can be used in GTX 465 by disabling the defective SMs. Each Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) contains 32 stream processors. For example, the GTX 480 has one SM disabled which leaves it with 480 stream processors instead of the expected 512 (The GPU in the GTX 480 has 16 SMs). Similarly, the GTX 470 has 2 SMs disabled giving it 440 stream processors. In addition, the GTX 465 has 5 SMs disabled leaving it with 352 stream processors. The memory bus width has also been reduced to 256-bit from the 320-bit for the GTX 470, while the clocks remain the same as the GTX 470.
It will be interesting to see the GTX 465 compete with the GTX 275 and the HD 5830. The GTX 275 in comparison to the GTX 465 has fewer stream processors but higher memory bus width giving it a higher bandwidth. The HD 5830 uses higher clocked GDDR5 memory at the same memory bus width as the GTX 465 which gives it a bandwidth similar to that of GTX 275.
About Galaxy
Galaxy, established in 1994, is a Nvidia Add-in-Board (AIB) partner which manufactures products from the low-end GeForce 7200 series to the high-end GTX200 series. They manufacture products based on Nvidia’s reference design as well as using their own in-house production facilities to manufacture graphic cards based on their own designs using high-end coolers from Arctic Cooling and others.
Galaxy has shipped to the US for a long time as they built video cards for many of the tier 1 brands in the market today. They realized they could create a brand for themselves and save the end customer the middleman fees. Two years ago they launched Galaxy in the US and their products are now available at Best Buy, Microcenter, Fry’s, Dell.com, Newegg, TigerDirect and many other sites. They have excellent quality and toll-free tech support with a 2 year transferable no-registration warranty.
I see you had less than stellar performance in CoD 4 just like I did. For me the GTX285 outruns the GTX470, and the gap is even wider with Windows 7.
Dude, your graphs are completely screwed up. Lower numbers are sometimes showing higher bars than higher numbers and vice/versa. You have a lot more work ahead of you. This article could not possibly have been edited and proofread as there are several model number, shader number mistakes throughout the article.
Nice thorough article, but it shouldn’t have been released like this. And if somebody did edit the article, fire them. 😉
– Keys
Hey Keysplayr, I think that the “screwed up” bar charts are actually cool. I noticed that the length of the bar is the addition of the minimum frame rate plus the average, then plus the maximum.
It gives greatest emphasis on the minimum, and also greater emphasis on the average than the maximum. Say, if the minimum is really low, then it will really affect the rest of the bar. (If the game dips to the “average minimum” quite frequently, say a few times a minute or so, then I’d definitely emphasize it the most.)
Oh well, yeah, I know it’s screwed up anyways, but this is an awesome review. Didn’t know about the RE5 3D vision demo (one of my fave games and I have Stereo 3D)!!! Thanks, MrK!
Only 1 in a hundred thousand would notice those “errors”, and only 1 out of them all said anything. =P
Good article, although it would have been nice to see that card face against the 5850!
I agree Bo_Fox, this is a pretty good review and I can’t wait to get my GTX 465 to replace my aging AGP slot’d PC with a new system.
The price seems very reasonable at less than $300 at newegg
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