GeForce GTX 470

Written by Boldson on 06 November 2009. Posted in GeForce GTX 4XX Series

Due to problems with the release of suitable chips, the new Nvidia flagship and its "assistant" in the face of the GTX 470 use stripped-down versions of the processor. GeForce GTX 470 has 448 stream processors, 56 texture sampling and filtering units (TMUs), 40 raster operations units (ROPs), clock speeds of 607/1215/837(3348 QDR) MHz for core, shader domain and memory respectively, 320-bit memory bus, 1280 MB GDDR-5 video memory, maximum power consumption 215 W

Specifications NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

Name	GTX 470
Core	GF100
Process technology (µm)	0.040
Transistors (million)	3000
Core frequency	607
Memory frequency (DDR)	3348
Bus and memory type	GDDR5 320-bit
Bandwidth (Gb/s)	133
Unified shader blocks	448
Frequency of unified shader units	1215
TMU per conveyor	56
ROP	40
Shader Model	5.0
Fill Rate (Mpix/s)	25620
Fill Rate (Mtex/s)	39500
DirectX	11.0
Memory	1280
Interface	PCIe 2.0

The GeForce GTX 470 is packaged more elegantly. The board is 24.1 cm (9.5") long - again, about a centimeter shorter than the rival AMD Radeon HD 5850. Additional power (in addition to the PCI Express bus) is provided by two six-pin connectors. The maximum thermal package is declared 215 W ( nearly 30 watts less than the Radeon HD 5870.) Gone are all the heatpipes and the radiator placed on the surface of the casing of the card. The card also occupies two slots and is completely enclosed in the casing. The fan blows air through the fins of the card, throwing it out through the I/O panel output.

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The graphics card's temperatures under load and idle are not as aggressive as the GTX 480, although both cards can handle GPU temperatures as high as 105 degrees Celsius. The performance of the GTX 470 averages on par with the Radeon HD 5870, making it a very attractive purchase.