Review-NVIDIA GTX 460M: Mainstream Mobile Gaming, Fermi Style

Testing Platform

Since the GTX 460M graphics card is embedded inside MSI’s GT663R, the notebook became our testing platform. Here is the list of its hardware configuration:

• Processor : Intel Core i7 740QM @1.73 GHz
• Graphics card : NVIDIA GTX 460M 1.5 GB GDDR5
• Memory : DDR3 8 GB
• Storage : 2x 500GB HDD (in RAID-0 configuration)
• Monitor : Built-in LED backlit LCD, 15.6”; 1920×1080
• Operating System : Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• Driver : NVIDIA Forceware 260.99

Test Results

First Person Shooter Games

Alien VS Predator

Setting : DirectX 11; Texture Quality-Very High; Shadow Quality-High; SSAO-On; No-MSAA; AF x16

LEFT4DEAD

Setting : No-AA; AF-Trilinear; Maximum Quality

Metro 2033

Setting : DirectX 11; Advance DOF, No-Advance PhysX, MSAA x4, AF x16

With the above graphics settings, the GTX 460M struggled to produce playable frame rates, even at the reduced resolution of 1280×720. We had to compromise a bit more with the graphics detail settings and came up with the result below:

Setting : DirectX 9; No-Advance DOF, No-Advance PhysX, AAA, AF x16