Zotac Third in Line with 2GB GTX 460 Graphics Card
Zotac Third in Line with 2GB GTX 460 Graphics Card
Posted 08/03/2010 at 7:08am
| by Paul Lilly
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If all you're looking for is vanilla GTX 460 graphics card, this isn't it. Instead, Zotac's upcoming non-reference GTX 460 strays from Nvidia's blueprint by doubling up on RAM to 2GB, following in the footsteps of Sparkle and Gainward, both of which also recently announced 2GB versions of the same card.
Unlike the other two, however, Zotac kicked the cooling scheme up a notch by slapping on a slightly modified Accelero TwinTurbo Pro VGA cooler from Arctic Cooling. The special cooler sports a dense aluminum fin array through which four 6mm copper heatpipes run through. On top of the fins sit two 92mm fans.
Despite the custom cooling system, it doesn't look like Zotac's version will come overclocked from the factory. According to a GPU-Z screenie over at EXPreview, Zotac's card runs at 675MHz, the same speed as Nvidia's reference design, and 25MHz slower than Gainward's 2GB version.
No word yet on price or availability.
Image Credit: EXPreview
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DarkMatter
August 03, 2010 at 7:23pm
1 - It runs cooler ...
2 - It cost less by the pair ..
3 - the GF-104 is the GF-100 done right ...
4 - Its a 2 gig frambuffer that when you put it all together costs a lot less than a 480 .. a win win for us budget cruncers .. but hey .. If one wants to put together a tri level 480 that is water cooled that can heat a small appartment then hey .. go for it...
Keith E. Whisman
August 03, 2010 at 9:40am
Why would anyone purchase one of these? Just purchase two GTX480's and be done with it. There should be a 2gig GTX480, though I'm going to wait for the GTX485 with all the processor cores running. I want the full processor running. The GTX 480 isn't that bad of a card after it's been water cooled. As for the 470, it can be water cooled and volt modded to increase the overclocking potential. CPU Magazine did an article on volt modding the GTX470 and they were able to achieve performance close to and even matching that of the GTX 480.
If you just want a high end card for all that much money then I would get the ATI 5870 unless you want to water cool and volt mod a GTX470.
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