I love your reviews. They really helped me out in the long run.
The PALiT GTX 460 Sonic Platinum 1GB GDDR5 Video Card has a core speed of 800MHz, the Shader Clock is 1600MHz & the 1024MBs of GDDR5 256 bit memory is 4000MHz DDR. It comes with 336 CUDA cores, 56 texture units & 32 raster operators. The texture fillrate is 44.8 Gtexels/s, pixel fillrate is 25.6 GTexels/s & the memory bandwidth is 128GB/s. Without a doubt, this is the best bang-for-the-buck video card currently on the planet.
I love your reviews. They really helped me out in the long run.
Don't get the PALIT. Go with The Gigabyte, or better yet, get an EVGA card,
Anonymous,
It would be nice if you at least tell people why?
Why? Because Palit is a manufacturer and EVGA is a marketing company?
Why? Because Palit focus on Video card and Gigabyte focus is on motherboard?
haha...just messing. But please do tell us why.
Thanks
Hy Rob!
I'm stucked between the GIGABYTE OC version and this PALIT SONIC PLATINUM.
Could you please help me? Is the Palit cool and quiet? Is the palit's cooler a good quality one?
Thanks in adcance.
thx for this,i will show this to my brother,he wants to buy this card
Palit just informed me that another GTX 460 is on the way for SLI testing :)
is a 1000 watts psu ok for palit gtx 460 sonic platinum sli?
Anony,
I think that should be good unless you are running a generic brand 1000w. Some generic brand PSU with 1000w can have false info and run less than 1000w.
Thanks
performance is exceptional put this on an eclipse board with 6 or 8 gigs of skill and could run without wrapping it around a pole.
From anywhere that sells one. EVGA sells them for $10 and there are plenty of sellers on Ebay.
Where would you get the sli bridge?
Where would you get the sli bridge?
Hello Rodney, you very positive, smiling man, nice to look at your reviews, big thanks from Russia for your work. It's rly nice product, not so bad as GF100 chip, but have very interest, exclusive technologies by nvidia, also i get this card, becouse nv have good drivers support in linux, not so bad as ATI. So it's my chose.
Hello Rodney, you very positive, smiling man, nice to look at your reviews, big thanks from Russia for your work. It's rly nice product, not so bad as GF100 chip, but have very interest, exclusive technologies by nvidia, also i get this card, becouse nv have good drivers support in linux, not so bad as ATI. So it's my chose.
I might try this card for my next bild
I probably would've gotten this card if I didn't get the HD5850 a month before.
Does it support 3 monitors on the single card since it has the additional vga port
Does it support 3 monitors on the single card since it has the additional vga port
Rodney, you need to start doing fps readings on battle field bad company 2, im pretty sure that game uses the most resources to date.
jepp, thats right ;)
i think crysis warhead is.
Please test the card with the new BIOS:
http://guru3d.com/news/palit-geforce-gtx-460-sonic-could-have-issues-/
Please test the card with the new BIOS:
http://guru3d.com/news/palit-geforce-gtx-460-sonic-could-have-issues-/
All manufacturers should do this.
I did edit my old Sapphire Radeon 4870X2 bios my self.
I canged the target temp, default fan speed and fan response time (75C,40%,1s), and the card became tolerable.. :) I also installed extra fans for cooling the case. At 4.00GHz with my core i7 920, the card performed wery well, 24778 3DMARK06 points LOL :O)
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817256064
This is my power supply, can I hook this thing up to it? If not, what adapters do I need
Your PSU comes with 3 x 6-Pin, 1 x 6+2-Pin. You only need 2 of those 3 x 6-pins for the card itself and this card also comes with an extra 6-pin to Molex adapter. Most ATI cards use the 1 x 6+2-Pin, basically the same with two extra ground wires.
I sleep fine at night knowing we are banning people who deserve it. 
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Just found this on neweggg.com for 200$ with free shipping and I live in canada, this is PERFECT!
i want this so bad but i hav no money =)
By the way... As I saw on Newegg pictures, MSI's GTX460 1GB Cyclone version does not have a VRM heatsink and runs pretty cool.For those who really want that heatsink, stop QQing and get the Gigabyte GTX460 1GB version, which has plenty of cooling features. Until next time, take care.
LOL That was one KISS ****** Review
I'm confused, 224 unified shaders but 336 processing cores, I thought they were both the same? My gtx 275 has 240 unified shaders, which I believe are cores. What's going on here?
I just got word from Palit and they will be sending another GTX 460 for SLI testing.
Now that's 100% KickAss! 
Huzzah!
WOW, I'm really seriously thinking about selling my 5770 and getting this card....
If you look at this review.
Palit Sonic Platinum score 14000 on 3dmark Vantage.
ATI 5770 1GB score 8700...thats almost double the performance.
And even though that review have the heatsink VRM, that doesn't mean heatsink increase double the performance.
http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-460-review/23
I understand that this is a ATI dominated and remember Palit used to sell ATI also, it just that ATI did not supply Palit with enough GPU to sell world wide so we have to stop selling ATI.
Thanks.
My 5770 doesn't perform nearly as well as the 460. Even though the clocks are higher, there's something else going on....
Like how Intel's i7 920 @ 2.33GHz is faster than AMD's Phenom II x4 965 @ 3.2GHz.
Depends on what 460 card you are comparing it with. Go into ATI CCC and set every setting for performance. AA off, AF off, v sync force off, etc...
I am really disappointed about PAILIT
The card Rodney is reviewing is clearly missing the VRM heatsinks :(
See video review (2.01)
http://futuremark.yougamers.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1412355
I am really disappointed about PAILIT
The card Rodney is reviewing is clearly missing the VRM heatsinks :(
See video review (2.01)
http://futuremark.yougamers.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1412355
Because they passed the temp test properly without heatsinks on the vram so it's not needed...
Yeah, but without those heatsinks that means less of an overclock.
It's normal for the finished retail products to differ from the engineering samples. This is why I never read early reviews of hardware that use these samples. To avoid this you should only watch Rodney's 3GM video reviews. I wouldn't get all hyped up about this honestly. It's not a bait and switch tactic. Some review websites like to review the engineering samples because it gives them time to write articles and take pictures before the hardware is released. Rodney is asked all the time if he wants to review these engineering samples, but he normally declines and waits for the retail product. I'm sure at some point in the production of these cards they budgeted the costs and effectiveness of the VRM heat sinks. Contrary to the thinking processes here, most memory technologies do no require cooling if they are running within acceptable levels. What they have done here is make an effectively powerful video card at the cost of 200$ ~ 250$. These concerns about heating and noise are most likely overly exaggerated. Then again, we are only talking about a kickass mid-range video card. XD
Those reviews are Engineer samples. And GURU3d is in UK. So UK region that sent the sample to them was out of our control.
Palit USA sent Rod the correct one which is the mass production one.
Understand that when we send to our press in the US, we send mass production samples. If you have question regarding why UK or other region sent out the one with heatsink, please contact them for further questions.
But we will look into this and keep you updated, but keep in mind the US/Canada have a 2 year warranty so there is no reason for consumer not be confident enough to buy our product. Palit US is the only region that offer 2 years warranty to North America at the moment due to high demands.
Thanks
First of all, thank you for responding.
My main concern is that this card is the OC version and they are saying that the
ambient romtemperatur limit is sett to 45C. The inside of a computer case can reach 50C..
1. A room of 45c is 115 F...I dont think anybody is that crazy to play in a room over 100 degree.
2. This is a Midrange card and is already default overclocked.
3. Please look at all the manufacture that sells GTX460. Do you see the heatsink in them that they are selling in retails? I only see their heatsink in reviews also.
Thanks.
1. A room of 45c is 115 F...I dont think anybody is that crazy to play in a room over 100 degree.
2. This is a Midrange card and is already default overclocked.
3. Please look at all the manufacture that sells GTX460. Do you see the heatsink in them that they are selling in retails? I only see their heatsink in reviews also.
Thanks.
Sorry for my bad english
What is the limit of the inside of a computer case, inn C?
If my case was hitting 45ºC I'd buy a better case before buying video card.
I think the importance is how is the temperature of the video card (usually 45c-70c). The Palit Sonic Platinum have heatpipes on the cooling unit so it does keep the video card cool and also have 2 ball-bearing on the cooling fans for quietness. I wouldn't worry too much about temperature as this is a mid-range card. If you read alot of reviews, alot of medias did not talk much about temperature.
But if you read about GTX480/470 reviews, there was much talk about the temperature reaching 80c.
Thanks
hi im from the uk and i just got the 768MB card it hasn't got the VRM heatsinks.
but not all the uk reviews showed the card with them .
PALiT said they aren't going to have VRM heatsinks installed on them. The ones in reviews that do have them are engineer samples. The ones that are being mass produced don't have those heatsinks, which in my opinion is sad.
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