Reviewers Liked
- Competitive performance
- Strong update to previous generation technologies
- Relatively low power usage
- Substantial performance improvement over GTX 460
- Reasonable pricing
- Quieter than other cards in this performance class
- HDMI output
- Support for DirectX 11
- Support for CUDA / PhysX
- Great gaming experience on a mid range card
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Requires 500-watt power supply
- Blocks second expansion slot
- Some versions of last-generation Nvidia cards are a better value
- Power draw limiter could complicate advanced overclocking
- Still limited to two active display outputs per card
- DirectX 11 relevance limited at this time
- No serious drawbacks discovered
- Premium priced mainstream product
- Blocks an adjacent slot
- Requires two six-pin power connectors