Nvidia had just released the GTX 465 which was a scaled down GF 100 card using a total of three graphics processing clusters with 11 streaming multiprocessors and 352 cuda cores to do battle with the likes of the HD 5830 and HD 5850 (albeit with mixed results). It still pulled a lot of juice and ran warm just like its big brother the GTX 480. Pricing left a lot to be desired based purely on performance. Fast forward a little more than a month and we have the release of the GTX 460 with its modified Fermi architecture using a GF 104 40nm core that comes equipped with two GPC clusters housing 7 streaming multiprocessors, 336 CUDA cores, 56 texture units and either 32 or 24 ROP units depending on the amount of memory onboard. You have two separate versions of the GTX 460, one with 768Mb of memory on a 192 bit bus (24ROP) and 1024Mb on a 256bit bus (32 ROP). The Palit GTX 460 Sonic Platinum overclocking Edition is based on this GF 104 design and is one of three models that Palit offers. This model comes with what may be the highest clock speeds out of the box at 800Mhz on the fixed function units 1600Mhz on the Shader domain and 2000Mhz for the GDDR5 memory. With specifications like that this card may well be what the GTX 465 was not, the right card at the right price.