Digital Alliance GTX 460 1GB Sonic – Extra Megahertz for Extra Performance

Microsoft DirectX SDK

Setting : 1920×1080; Default, DirectX 11

When it comes to tessellation-enhanced 3D model rendering in this DirectX SDK benchmark from Micosoft, GeForce GTX 460 can really show its teeth.

Unigine Heaven 2.1

Setting : 1920×1080; DirectX 11, AF x16, No-AA

Unigine Heaven 2.1 is one of the first DirectX 11 benchmarks. In its tessellation-intensive runs, the Digital Alliance GTX 460 1 GB Sonic Version managed to score past the 30 FPS mark.

MediaShow Espresso

Setting : Hardware Acceleration On

Our MPEG-4 video transcoding test shows that both versions of Geforce GTX 460 are quite a better performer compared to the Radeon HD 5830, at least in the 1920×1080 transcoding scenario. When encoding to 720×480, all graphics cards are equally fast.