NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 465: Cheaper Isn’t Always Better
by Ryan Smith on May 31, 2010 3:26 AM ESTDIRT 2
Codemasters latest racing game marks the return of a racer to our benchmark suite. As the first DX11 racer, DIRT 2 makes pretty through use of the DX11’s tessellation abilities, not to mention being the best looking racer we have ever seen.
DIRT 2 was a game the earlier members of the GTX 400 series did fairly well at. However for some reason that goes out the window on the GTX 465, as a near-parity performance at 1680 becomes a 20% deficit at 2560. At 1920 (which we would consider the sweet-spot for this card) it falls behind by 10%. As far as we can tell, the Radeon 5000 series scales better with resolution on this game than the GTX 400 series does, and while this wasn’t too bad for NVIDIA since the GTX 470 started out well enough, starting out at near-parity for the GTX 465 only means things get worse.
Meanwhile getting back to our GTX 465/470 comparison, the gap remains constant – the GTX 465 falls behind by roughly 20%.
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poohbear - Monday, May 31, 2010 - link
Why's the 5770 10fps slower than the 4870? is that a mistake? they perform on par especially w/ the recent driver updates for the 5770.poohbear - Monday, May 31, 2010 - link
in mass effect 2.:p hate the no edit feature!Ryan Smith - Monday, May 31, 2010 - link
There aren't any typos; those are the results we got for those cards on the 10.3a drivers.temps - Monday, May 31, 2010 - link
I can vouch for that. When my 1gb 4870 died, it was replaced with a 5770. In ME2, I saw a 10-15fps drop across the board with the same settings.. that didn't do it for me, so I ended up stepping up to a 5850.BoFox - Tuesday, June 1, 2010 - link
Didn't you know that the 5770 is generally slower than 4870? The 4870 has far, far greater memory bandwidth despite a 100MHz lower core clock.tno - Monday, May 31, 2010 - link
I think a repost to the feed is appropriate when someone goes through this again and polishes it up. I couldn't finish the second paragraph it was so full or mistakes. Really guys there is no shame in hiring a copy editor.softdrinkviking - Tuesday, June 1, 2010 - link
i don't care about typos in this kind of article.aside from problems with the numbers, i think everyone knows what is meant.
i feel like it's expected that tech blog sites are littered with typos.
actually, i'd like to hear about this from ryan smith or somebody here.
do you guys want us to post typo corrections in the comments?
i don't care, but what does anandtech want?
taltamir - Monday, May 31, 2010 - link
According to the graph, the GTX465 gets 89 C not 91 C.
taltamir - Monday, May 31, 2010 - link
nevermind, I see now that there are two graphs, one for furmark and one for crysis.multivac - Monday, May 31, 2010 - link
NVIDIA filled in the first 2 spots in their lineup with the GTX 480 and GTX 480, with obvious room to grow out the family in the future.end of the first paragraph.
still reading but im sure its a great article
cheers!