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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 - The Second Fermi Card

By Kenny Yeo - 10 Apr 2010

Test Setup

Test Setup

We'll be testing the GeForce GTX 470 using our new X58 system:

  • Intel Core i7-975 (3.33GHz)
  • Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P motherboard
  • 3 x 1GB DDR3-1333 OCZ memory in triple channel mode
  • Seagate 7200.10 200GB SATA hard drive
  • Windows 7 Ultimate

On paper, it seems that the GeForce GTX 470 has taken quite a hit in terms of hardware specs against its larger GTX 480 brother such as losing one entire streaming multiprocessor, having a narrower 320-bit wide memory bus, reduced frame buffer size and not forgetting lower clock speeds. Hence, it'll be interesting to see how that translates to actual real world performance differential against the performance leading GTX 480.

Additionally, with a set launch price of US$349, the GeForce GTX 470 finds itself sandwiched between the Radeon HD 5870 and HD 5850, so it'll be intriguing to see how NVIDIA's latest matches up against the two Radeon 5800 series cards.

The full list of cards and the driver versions used:

  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 (ForceWare 197.17 Beta)
  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 (ForceWare 197.17 Beta)
  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 (ForceWare 196.21)
  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 (ForceWare 196.21)
  • ATI Radeon HD 5870 (Catalyst 10.2)
  • ATI Radeon HD 5850 (Catalyst 10.2)
  • ATI Radeon HD 4890 (Catalyst 10.2)

The list of benchmark used are as follows:

  • Futuremark 3DMark Vantage
  • Crysis Warhead
  • Far Cry 2
  • Warhammer: Dawn of War 2
  • Battlefield Bad Company 2
  • "Heaven" from Unigine
  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
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7.5
  • Performance 8
  • Features 8.5
  • Value 7
The Good
High-end performance
Compact size
The Bad
Not competitively priced
Suffers the same heat, noise and thermal problems as the GeForce GTX 480
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