Our previous reviews showed how nicely the latest Fermi GTX 460s perform compared to the higher end GTX 470 and top of the line GTX 480. While the charted performance on the GTX 460 did lack compared to the GTX 480 (this was due to a lower amount of stream processors on the GTX 460), the real-life performance in today's latest games was still quite pleasing. In some instances, the stock GTX 460 did have a bit higher performance over the GTX 470, and Palit has now introduced an even faster version of the mainstream GTX 460: the Palit GTX 460 Sonic Platinum 1GB GDDR5.The Palit GTX 460 Sonic Platinum comes with 336 Stream Processors, along with a 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 memory. The stock GTX 460 also had these specifications, but the performance increase the Sonic Platinum has actually comes from the core speed and memory speed improvement. The Palit GTX 460 Sonic Platinum runs at a core speed of 800MHz, a shader clock speed of 1600MHz, and a memory frequency of 2000MHz. That's a 125MHz increase over the standard 675MHz core speed, a 250MHz increase on the shader clock speed, and a 200MHz increase on the Memory frequency from 1800MHz. Palit also redesigned the layout of the GTX 460 (including the cooler), to make sure that the GTX 460 Sonic Platinum runs optimally.