Rumor: GeForce GTX 460 To Be Unveiled At Computex

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File this one in the ‘rumor mill’ section, but website Fudzilla has a few sources within NVIDIA’s manufacturing partners and they’re reporting that NVIDIA is going to announce and detail a new mid-range GeForce GTX 460 card at Computex in Taiwan this June. The GTX 400 series just launched in March with the high-end GTX 480 and GTX 470.

The source reports that the mid-range GTX 460 will be between the ATI Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 5850 in both pricing and performance. Judging by current market prices, that would but the price of this card somewhere between $240 and $304. Performance wise, it’s said to have 384 Stream processors, 48 texture units, 32 ROPs and a 256-bit memory interface.

NVIDIA is holding the processor speed and amount of VRAM close to their vest as they’re not yet releasing that information to their manufacturing partners. NVIDIA doesn’t comment on unannounced products, but we have seen multiple rumors pointing to the summer for them coming out with a mid-range/mainstream GeForce 400 series card. If you were going to unveil it, Computex would be the place.

Not sure if it’s going to be a new Fermi-based chip (GF104 or something) or the same GPU used in the current GTX 480 and 470 models (the GF100). We’ve heard unverified rumors from other questionable websites that NVIDIA was getting dreadful yields on their GF100 processors. NVIDIA might go with a new mid-range chip, or a downclocked GF100. If they go with a GF100 again, that certainly buries rumors that they were only getting a 20% yield on the chips.

As for the other Fermi-based cards, the GTX 480 and 470, they’re becoming more and more available from retailers in North American and Europe. Prices are said to be varying wildly from “good deal” to “crazy expensive” as retailers are reporting big swings in both supply and demand on the new DirectX-11 cards.