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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 1280MB GDDR5 PCIe

Based on 9 reviews

Excellent:

0
Good:

5
Average:

1
Bad:

3

Pros

The term “most bang for your buck” is often attached to the GTX 470.
Highend performance, Compact size

Cons

Not quite as powerful the GTX 480.
Not competitively priced, Suffers the same heat, noise and thermal problems as the GeForce GTX 480

By The Tech Report on July 29, 2010

Putting together these value comparisons is harder than it looks. Oh, sure, looking at our overall value graphs and making broad generalizations is a lot of fun, but it can be quite misleading. You've gotta keep the hidden variables in mind. If this...

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By IT-Review on July 26, 2010

NVIDIA's 470 is not a bad performer. It can certainly compete with ATI, and with newer titles that will make more use of its processing power, the TMU drawback will have even less impact. It does see competition from the GTX 460 card, especially...

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By TopTenREVIEWS on June 01, 2010

If you’re working with a budget but still want plenty of power, look no...

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By Motherboards.org on May 24, 2010

NVIDIA had a bit of a troubled launch with delays to their chip pushing this card back into March causing the market to have one DirectX 11 solution from ATI. The decision to release a card with fewer cores than originally planned must have been a...

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By DigitalVersus on May 19, 2010

The card at a glance For our tests we used the PNY GeForce GTX 470 XLR8. No extras here. This model exactly mirrors the stock card design. The only difference being the PNY sticker. There are two DVI connectors and a mini-HDMI. There's not a great...

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By BeHardware on April 22, 2010

For over six months, NVIDIA has been trying to center as much attention as possible on its new architecture so as to queer AMD’s pitch with the Radeon HD 5000 series. Those in bad faith will also say that it was making all that noise so as to...

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By HardwareZone.com on April 10, 2010

In closing, we are not that impressed with the new GeForce GTX 470. With a launch price of US$349, it finds itself sandwiched between the Radeon HD 5870 and HD 5850, which cost around US$400 and US$280 respectively. And if you consider the performance...

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By The Tech Report on March 31, 2010

These two new GeForces draw more power, generate more heat and noise, and have higher price tags than the closest competing Radeons, but they're not substantially faster at running current games. For many, that will be the brutal bottom line on the...

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By Trusted Reviews on March 29, 2010

It's a tale as old as the industry that the fortunes of one tech company wax while those of another wane. Trends come and go, one technology supersedes another, one left-field, blue-sky idea takes off while another crash lands. It's no...

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By HEXUS.net on March 29, 2010

GeForce GTX 470 1,280MB decent performance credentials and forward-looking architecture are overshadowed by an uncompetitive UK etail pre-order price and ongoing heat/noise/power concerns.The goodPerformance is close to AMD's fastest single-GPU...

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