MSI GeForce GTX 465 Twin Frozr II

Introduction

NVIDIA's latest member of the GeForce 400 Series is the GeForce GTX 465. The card is based on the same GF100 "Fermi" GPU as the more powerful Geforce GTX 470 and GTX 480. Specs-wise there are some big differences, especially the number of shaders and and ROPs has been reduced considerably to meet NVIDIA's price/performance target.

MSI is the first add-in-board vendor to send us a fully customized GTX 465 design for review. As the name suggests, their GeForce GTX 465 Twin Frozr II is using MSI's famous Twin Frozr II cooler design. All other performance related specifications remain the same as the NVIDIA reference design. Pricewise not much has changed either, MSI ask a very reasonable $10 extra for their own cooling solution.

	Radeon HD 5830	GeForce GTX 275	MSI GeForce GTX 465	GeForce GTX 285	Radeon HD 5850	GeForce GTX 470	Radeon HD 5870	GeForce GTX 480
Shader units	1120	240	352	240	1440	448	1600	480
ROPs	16	28	32	32	32	40	32	48
GPU	Cypress	GT200	GF100	GT200	Cypress	GF100	Cypress	GF100
Transistors	2154M	1404M	3200M	1404M	2154M	3200M	2154M	3200M
Memory Size	1024 MB	896 MB	1024 MB	1024 MB	1024 MB	1280 MB	1024 MB	1536 MB
Memory Bus Width	256 bit	448 bit	256 bit	512 bit	256 bit	320 bit	256 bit	384 bit
Core Clock	800 MHz	602 MHz	607 MHz	648 MHz	725 MHz	607 MHz	850 MHz	700 MHz
Memory Clock	1000 MHz	1107 MHz	802 MHz	1242 MHz	1000 MHz	837 MHz	1200 MHz	924 MHz
Price	$230	$230	$289	$350	$310	$349	$400	$499