Last month we took a look at the EVGA and Galaxy GeForce GTX 465 graphics cards when NVIDIA launched them. We even ran them in SLI together and brought you a look at SLI performance numbers when running a pair of them. What has changed in the past month? Well, for starters a GeForce GTX 465 can be picked up for $249 now, which is a price drop of $30 or 11%.

NVIDIA has also been perfecting their Forceware drivers and while 257.15 beta drivers were cutting edge last month Forceware 258.80 beta drivers are all the rage this month. When PNY offered to send out their GeForce GTX 465 XLR8 Performance Edition graphics card we jumped at the chance as it not only would give us a chance to look at their graphics card and bundle, but also give us a chance to run the latest drivers and give you the latest performance numbers to see how things stack up between ATI and NVIDIA this summer. Since we’ve already covered the GeForce GTX 465 video card basics in our launch coverage, we’ll give you a quick refresher and go straight to the PNY GTX 465 video card!

The GeForce GTX 480 is the flagship desktop gaming graphics card right now from NVIDIA, but at $449 they are too expensive for your average gamer. The GeForce GTX 480 features 480 CUDA cores, 60 texture units and 48 ROP units. Next down the line you have the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 retails for $309 and has 448 CUDA cores, 56 texture units, and 40 ROP units. Last month NVIDIA released the GeForce GTX 465 that retails for just $249 and has 352 CUDA cores, 44 texture units and 32 ROP units. It should be noted that the GTX470 and GTX465 share the same PCB and even the same core, but obviously some things have been disabled on the GTX465. NVIDIA kept the core clock speed at 607MHz and the shaders at 1215MHz, but slowed the GDDR5 memory down to 802MHz.

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