GeForce GTX 460 Seems Much More Likely [Mid-range GeForce 400 Rumors Grow, New Card To Use GF100, Not New Chip]

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Last night, we reported on the rumor that the mid-range GeForce GTX 460 was going to be announced at Computex in Taiwan this June. Now, the rumors of that card being unveiled seem much more likely, sources within the NVIDIA manufacturing scene are telling Fudzilla.

The sources are reporting that the card will have a price point between $275 and $300, which is close to what we estimated for the mid-range card (we predicted $240 and $304). Interestingly enough, the sources are saying that the card will use a downclocked GF100 processor, not completely new GPU (which speculation would call the ‘GF104′).

The reports go on to stay that the new cards will be announced in June (at Computex), with the them likely to be released a month later, in July. To recap the reported specs from yesterday, they’re saying that the slower card will have 384 Stream processors, 48 texture units, 32 ROPs and a 256-bit memory interface. NVIDIA isn’t disclosing to their partners the clockspeed or amount of VRAM.

They say that you can expect the GTX 460 to compete head-to-head with the ATI Radeon HD 5850 in performance. Since it will be a bit more expensive, website Fudzilla says aptly, “for Nvidia’s sake we can just hope that the performance of this card can defeat ATI’s offering.”

Aside from the new prices and the news that this card will be based on the GF100, it’s worth noting that the sources are reporting ‘strongly’ that this card will be announced. So it seems very likely that this will happen. NVIDIA (as usual) does not comment on unannounced comments, rumors or speculation, so none of this is confirmed (as if you expected otherwise).

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