Friday, March 11, 2011

EVGA GTX 460 2Win: 2 GF104 GPU to beat the GTX 580

In January we saw at CES in Las Vagas a mysterious dual-GPU video card "Fermi" developed by EVGA. That card is now officially made by the producers of Bree as the GeForce GTX 460 2Win. The EVGA proposal is presented as a project owner, even if developed with external support from nVidia and is characterized by the use of two GPUs GF104 (GTX 460) on a single PCB.

The two GPUs operate at 700 MHz (1400MHz for SPs) and are coupled to each of an allocation of video memory to 1GB of GDDR5 with a 256-bit bus and frequency of 3600MHz (effective). In total, the shaders are 672 and the VRAM is 2GB. The cooling system is a dual-slot solution with radiator, fan and three heatpipes.


The external power connectors are 2 x 8-pin while the video outputs are 4: 3 mini-DVI and one HDMI. EVGA not only offers superior performance to the GTX 580, the current fastest nVidia video card on the market, but confirmed that this is the first "single-GeForce card" technology to support 3D Surround Vision: in fact so far to use the nVidia stereoscopic technology with 3 monitors users were forced to buy two separate video cards GeForce GTX400/500.

The success and survival of this data will depend on two factors: the price of marketing and driver support that EVGA will be able to provide.

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