Chinese hacks have apparently managed to get their hands on an early sample of the GTX 465, Nvidia's third graphics card based on the Fermi architecture.

If the numbers are to be believed, Nvidia enjoyed crippling the new card, as it only features 352 stream processors and a 256-bit memory bus. It packs 1GB of GDDR5 memory and it's clocked at 607/1215/3206 MHz.

This is quite a bit less than the GTX 470, let alone a GTX 480 and it's clear that performance was significantly effected. The card ended up a bit faster than the HD 5870 in Far Cry 2, but it was quite a bit slower than an HD 5830 in Crysis Warhead. In Unigine's Heaven benchmark the card ended up between the HD 5850 and HD 5870.

Mind you, these numbers should be taken with a grain of salt. Even if the benches are legit, it's still too early and Nvidia has quite a bit of time to polish its drivers prior to launch. However, the card probably won't have an easy time against AMD's rather affordable HD 5800 series cards.

The original article over at enet.com.cn has been removed, but you get some details at TweakTown.