The video card market, after a period of calm, which saw the Radeon HD 5000 solutions so dominate the undisputed market, is now living a moment of great ferment. The renewed competition, thanks mainly to variations of Fermi NVIDIA recently introduced on the market, has given new vitality to a segment that has always characterized for its particularly lively. In this scenario, as reported by various online sources , the imminent arrival of a new proposal that will be included in the GeForce GTX 460. This new model, identified as NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE, is characterized by the presence of only 288 shaders, which will be supported but 1GB of GDDR5 memory.

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At present, the GeForce GTX 460 is composed of two solutions, both characterized by the presence of 336 shader and differentiated by the amount of memory: they are available proposals with 768MB or 1GB of graphics memory GDDR5. The new born then, which should arrive on the shelves for November 15, is characterized by a substantial decrease in the number of shaders inside the GPU used GF104. The reason for this choice is not clear at the time and has not been absolutely confirmed by NVIDIA. As you can see from the slide, the newest addition to NVIDIA's home should be equipped with a memory bus 256-bit capable, thus ensuring a bandwidth of 108 GB / s, compared to 86GB / s of the GeForce GTX 460 with 768MB video memory.