dOm1naTOr said:
Why do they still call it GTX 460. Why not GTX 455 or something. I doubt if it will be priced that lower, as it packs 256 bit memory and has 1GB of GDDR5.
Ya I second that dude. I HATE it when they make these faltu SE editions. Simply becoz it CONFUSES the market too much. In Lammy road more than half these idiots will not know the diff and will keep quoting the price of the SE edition thinking it is the same as the normal edition and that just adds more confusion.
Performance wise though there will be hardly any diff like the 260 192cores and 260 216 cores, there was less than 10% performance diff. The difference could be larger in High resolutions like HD res's. I guess that is why NVIDIA is calling it 460 GTX SE.
From the manufacturing/ marketing angle it does make sense...why let ruined chips go, they are still good, therefore bump up the mem bit ratio, slight lesser clocks and sell. Atleast they are NOT conning ppl into rebranding the 460GTX, like they did with GEForce 440MX chips which were 2 generation old cards and had no "4 series" masala in it, only a Geforce 2 rebranded to sound cool.
If honestly = calling it a SE edition because of screw ups from their side and screw ups always happen. I think it is alright.
A Marketing thought, they ought to have called it 455GTX and underclocked it, they would have made news that these cards can be overclocked to 460 status! similar to the ATI 9500 Pro editions if you recall, though that was a diff scenario.
