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Hi guys,

Just relax, and use the upcoming 2.3 intermediate, it has support for these new cards and will make them render 1.5x faster.

Radiance

hi people ,

3 new 2gb 460 cards out there Palit, Gainward and Sparkle !!

around 230€ a piece for the 2GB versions

runs 17°c cooler than a 470chip consumes 160W max and overclocks from stock 675 core to 925MHZ !! (+20% ) making it the same speed as 470 and more memory to boot !!

check them out ...
crazy

crazyhorse666 wrote:hi people ,

3 new 2gb 460 cards out there Palit, Gainward and Sparkle !!

around 230€ a piece for the 2GB versions

runs 17°c cooler than a 470chip consumes 160W max and overclocks from stock 675 core to 925MHZ !! (+20% ) making it the same speed as 470 and more memory to boot !!

check them out ...
crazy

I should be getting the Palit one today!

crazyhorse666 wrote:3 new 2gb 460 cards out there Palit, Gainward and Sparkle !!

Yep, they are the best available cards for Octane Render: quite cheap, lots of memory, almost as fast as GTX 470 after 2.3 intermediate fixes the problem that some cores were not used.

crazyhorse666 wrote:overclocks from stock 675 core to 925MHZ

Octane Render heats the card as much as Furmark, so overclocking leads just to instability and program crashes. It depends on how good ventilation the computer case has and how hot the air is, but usually overclocking a GPU-rendering card is not a good idea!

Anyways, if you have the money, why not buy two 2 GB GTX 460 cards? The new 400-series cards scale really well from one GPU to multiple GPU's.

460 overclocked to 900mhz still runs cooler than the stock gtx470 !

crazy

Here are my results too.

I used a Quadro 5000 + Tesla C2050

This is Directlighting.

Always Quadro 5000 + Tesla C2050

This is Pathtracing.

Kitsune wrote:Yep, they are the best available cards for Octane Render: quite cheap, lots of memory, almost as fast as GTX 470 after 2.3 intermediate fixes the problem that some cores were not used.

Octane Render heats the card as much as Furmark, so overclocking leads just to instability and program crashes. It depends on how good ventilation the computer case has and how hot the air is, but usually overclocking a GPU-rendering card is not a good idea!

Anyways, if you have the money, why not buy two 2 GB GTX 460 cards? The new 400-series cards scale really well from one GPU to multiple GPU's.

After reading the bolded part I think i'll really trade my 470's for these babies (sadly my current setup only has two x16 PCIe slots). Do you think i'll lose much speed going from 2x470 to 2x460?

crazyhorse666 wrote:460 overclocked to 900mhz still runs cooler than the stock gtx470 !

crazy

wah. i think i've had enough seeing my chips going 95+ Celsius!
Tom's was right saying this is 'the Fermi we're waiting for'. Fortunately Octane users don't have to worry about the 2-way sli limit.

Presently they will run about 2/3 speed of the 470.
It would be nice to think they can be made to do more work in the future but I wouldnt bank on it.
It seems they might need cuda 3.2 and some code optimisation in Octane.
Make your decision on the basis of heat, noise, power supply, memory size, price, and current performance

pixelrush wrote:Presently they will run about 2/3 speed of the 470.
It would be nice to think they can be made to do more work in the future but I wouldnt bank on it.
It seems they might need cuda 3.2 and some code optimisation in Octane.
Make your decision on the basis of heat, noise, power supply, memory size, price, and current performance

thanks, i can wait for 2.3 beta final to see its (closer to) full performance. i think it's safe though to assume that refractive will make sure Octane runs optimised on these 460's, as they seem to be very popular.

this particular model seems good, 66 C on full load:

http://en.expreview.com/2010/08/08/excl ... 041.html/5