<p><span style="font-size: small;"> At the very end of May we saw NVIDIA&rsquo;s first effort to expand Fermi beyond the $300 space with the </span><span style="font-size: small;">GeForce GTX 465</span><span style="font-size: small;">, a further cut-down </span><span style="font-size: small;">GF100</span><span style="font-size: small;"> core priced at launch at $279. Unfortunately for NVIDIA, it wasn&rsquo;t even a lackluster launch &ndash; while GF100 performs quite well with most of its functional units enabled (i.e. GTX 480), disabling additional units isn&rsquo;t doing the GPU any favors. Furthermore disabling those units does little to temper the chip&rsquo;s high power draw &ndash; something that&rsquo;s only reasonable on the higher-end cards &ndash; resulting in a card that ate a lot of power while losing to AMD&rsquo;s Radeon HD 5850.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"> In short, the GTX 465 is a lesson of how you can only cut down GPU so far. NVIDIA went too far, and ended up with a part that had GTX 285 performance and GTX 470 power consumption.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"> Today NVIDIA is back in the saddle with something entirely new: GF104 and the GTX 460. The second member of the Fermi family is ready for its day in the sun, and in many ways it&rsquo;s nothing like we expected. Designed from the start as a smaller chip than GF100, GF104 is the basis of the GTX 460 line of products which fix the GTX 465&rsquo;s ills while delivering the GTX 465&rsquo;s performance. It&rsquo;s what the GTX 465 should have been, and it&rsquo;s priced as low as $199. And as we&rsquo;ll see, it&rsquo;s the first NVIDIA card in a long time that we can give a glowing review for.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/3809/nvidias-geforce-gtx-460-the-200-king">Read more...</a><br /> </span></p>