Digital Alliance GTX 460 1GB Sonic – Extra Megahertz for Extra Performance

Now who’s not interested with the GeForce GTX 460 768 MB? It’s a nice graphics card that undeniably hits the sweet spot between price and performance. Some people however, are still not satisfied with its overall performance. This is where the 1 GB version comes in. Digital Alliance sent us a sample of their “Sonic Edition” GTX 460 with 1 GB of GDDR5 memory on board. Like the rest of their “Sonic Version” graphics cards, it comes pre-overclocked right out from the box.

We’re a bit curious to find out just how better this version would perform over its 768-MB sibling. If you haven’t read our review on that particular graphics card, visit this link right here. Okay, without any further delay, let’s see what we can find inside the box!

Specification

	Digital Alliance GTX 460 1GB Sonic	NVIDIA GTX 460 1GB
Fabrication Process	40 nm	40 nm
Transistors	1.95 Billion	1.95 Billion
Die Size	320 mm²	320 mm²
Core Clock	700 MHz	675 MHz
Stream Processors	336	336
Shader Clock	1400 MHz	1350 MHz
Texture Units	56	56
ROPs	32	32
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory Size	1GB	1GB
Memory Clock (effective)	3600 MHz	3600 MHz
Memory Interface	256-bit	256-bit
DirectX Version	11	11
Shader Model	5	5
Power Connectors	2x 6-pin	2x 6-pin
Bus Support	PCIe 2.1 x16	PCIe 2.1 x16

As we can see from the table above, Digital Alliance sets the core and shader clocks of this 1 GB GeForce GTX 460 a tad higher than NVIDIA’s reference specifications. The core frequency is overclocked by 25 MHz, while an overclock of 50 MHz is applied to the shader frequency.