ECS GeForce GTX 460 1GB Black Video Card Review

ECS Elitegroup is a manufacturer that has been around for a while and has recently been making great strides to appeal to the enthusiast community with their “Black” series of components which bring premium performance and cooling at a great price. The video card we have here today from ECS is their GeForce GTX 460 1GB Black which is factory overclocked to a respectable 765MHz core speed and even comes with the Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo heatsink for maximum overclocking!

ECS GeForce GTX 460 1GB (NBGTX460-1GPI-F) Features

The GeForce GTX 460 1GB is a very highly regarded video card for its price/performance ratio, and this card is no different offering higher-than-standard clock speeds and the slick AC heatsink for the same retail price as the base 1GB versions. Below is a chart of all the contending graphics cards in the $100-230 segment:

Looking at the chart, the primary differences between the 1GB and 768MB GTX 460’s are tied to memory and bandwidth; of course, you can’t forget the 768MB versions have less ROP engines. Today’s testing will involve the HD 5670, 5750, 5770 and, of course, the GTX 460 1GB from ECS. I would have liked to have included the GTS 450 and 460 768MB, but those shall come in due time (maybe not the 768MB) because I simply do not have them on hand. Also, note the Radeon HD 5830 should be mentioned at the $199 price point, though is still over-valued in relation to the HD 5770 which performs close to it.