Reviewers Liked
- Both cards' performance, cooling, low noise
- Performance
Reviewers Didn't Like
- The GTX470 GS still feels a little hot, although cooler than the reference card
- Noisy, Power consumption
Gainward GeForce GTX 470 Golden Sample 1280MB GDDR5 PCIe
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Expert reviews and ratings
For decent Nvidia PhysX enriched DirectX 11 gaming performance in a small form factor, the Gainward GTX460 GS-GLH is a good choice. As for the higher end parts, I hope Gainward applies its 2GR8 2COOL Twin Fans to the upcoming 512-core GTX485 line, too....
By The Inquirer onNVIDIAs new GTX 460 offers a huge range of features, matching or exceeding its direct competition from ATI in every way. A great, well balanced and flexible addition to the GTX...
By HardwareHeaven onAs we can see, the difference between the cards is only a few percent. Everything that can be said for the 470 applies to 470 GS as well. It's faster than 5850 at its most comfortable resolution, but even the overclocked...
By IT-Review onGainward GeForce GTX 470 1280MB GDDR5 Golden Sample is simply an excellent product. It has a highly efficient and quiet cooler and it's factory-overclocked. In other words, buy it if the price is...
By iXBT Labs onThe Gainward GTX 470 GS GOOD sure is a fast card, and also matched nicely the performance of the Ati HD 5850 in all the tests. At high AA/AF-settings it usually managed to pull a slightly larger lead over the competition. Overclocking the card was a...
By Metku.net onGainward GTX 470 Golden Sample is the first nonreference GTX 470 we received and it did pretty well on our tests. The card comes preoverclocked to 650MHz for the GPU and 850MHz for the memory, which isn’t a radical change from the reference clocks...
By Fudzilla onDa poco nVidia ha presentato le sue ultime VGA che si sono dimostrate delle schede sicuramente dotate di Performance elevate, ma con alcuni difetti di progettazione molto evidenti, come il calore prodotto e la rumorosità del Heat Sink. Solitamente...
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Wenn man bereit ist, mittels „Afterburner“ die Lüfterdrehzahl unter Windows zu reduzieren, ist die Karte durchaus eine Überlegung wert – aber nur dann. Wer das nicht möchte, der sollte sich definitiv nach einem anderen...
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