Tuesday, March 2nd 2010
GeForce GTX 470 Graphics Card Pictured
A picture of what NVIDIA's reference design for its next-gen performance graphics card, the GeForce GTX 470, could look like made it to sections of the media. The card is characteristically shorter than the GTX 480 reference design card spotted earlier. The GeForce GTX 470 will be the slightly more affordable part in the series. It is based on NVIDIA's new GF100 graphics core. The GTX 470 has 448 CUDA cores (shader cores), and has a 320-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. Board partners will sell these cards with 1280 MB of memory. The back of the card shows tracks for 10 memory chips (confirming the 320-bit wide memory interface), and interestingly, also lacks traces for an external display IO processor (like the NVIO2 processor on GT200 based accelerators), cutting down the overall cost of manufacturing. The card draws power from two 6-pin power connectors, and has two SLI fingers for 3-way SLI support. Its connectivity includes two DVI-D, and HDMI.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
38 Comments on GeForce GTX 470 Graphics Card Pictured
It definitely looks like rivets holding the heatsink on, though nVidia might have done that to prevent early samples from having the heatsink removed for more candid shots.;)
I'm still waiting on performance numbers and pricing, but given the specs I don't see how this would have a problem outperform the HD5870.
480 should be around $574
wanna take bets? :p
Lately (last month or so) I've been considering that Nvidia itself has been the source of many of the BS, especially the one coming from Charlie Demerjian and the likes. You know, there's nothing Nvidia could say to make Fermi look better before launch, nothing, really. So IMO it could be better to use the bad publicity instead, because as you know, bad publicity does not exist, only publicity exists. Later at launch the truth would surface and it would be a shock, the biggest success in marketing and at the same time they would destroy the credibility of some known bloggers. Then again this is just me speculating in the same manner as such bloggers...
Is this the first video card to have this?
This isn't the first card to have holes in the PCB for the fan intake. I believe it is common on the Quadro cards now.
Not lookin to bad. Nice seein it all black b4 all the company's start putting logos all over it. Even though u only see it till u install it. I don't care bout what it looks like. As long as it performs well and has a trusted name behind it. They should have made the fan bigger. It'll help keep noise level down some.
We soo need some benching against ATI's latest.
Any1 know what connections we'll prob get on this? kinda lame to b using vga anymore on these higher cards, JMO.