NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 is a high-end desktop graphics card of the Fermi generation. It is based on the GF100 chip and offers only 448 of the 512 available CUDA cores. The similar named laptop graphics card Nvidia GeForce GTX 470M is definately slower as it offers only 288 shaders and reduced clock speeds.
The performance of the GTX470 is usually enough for the highest settings and Full HD resolution. However, very demanding games in our benchmarks like Witcher 2, Far Cry 2 or Metro 2033 were not playable at the highes settings with Antialiasing. See the benchmarks below for more details.
| Manufacturer | NVIDIA | |||||||||
| GeForce GTX 400 Series |
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| Codename | GF100 | |||||||||
| Architecture | Fermi | |||||||||
| Pipelines | 448 - unified | |||||||||
| Core Speed * | 607 MHz | |||||||||
| Shader Speed * | 1215 MHz | |||||||||
| Memory Speed * | 1676 MHz | |||||||||
| Memory Bus Width | 320 Bit | |||||||||
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | |||||||||
| Max. Amount of Memory | 1280 MB | |||||||||
| Shared Memory | no | |||||||||
| DirectX | DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 | |||||||||
| Current Consumption | 225 Watt | |||||||||
| Transistors | 3000 Million | |||||||||
| technology | 40 nm | |||||||||
| Features | DirectX11, OpenGL 4.2, 3D Vision, PhysX, CUDA | |||||||||
| Notebook Size | large | |||||||||
| Date of Announcement | 12.04.2010 | |||||||||
| Link to Manufacturer Page | http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-... |
Benchmarks
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| AMD FX-8350, GTX 470, Asus M5A97 Evo Desktop | FX-8350 | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB 314.22 | 162190 |
| 2600K | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB 313.96 | 192793 |
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| 2600K | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB 313.96 | 25111 | |
| AMD FX-8350, GTX 470, Asus M5A97 Evo Desktop | FX-8350 | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB 314.22 | 26403 |

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| 2600K | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB 313.96 | 2747 | |
| AMD FX-8350, GTX 470, Asus M5A97 Evo Desktop | FX-8350 | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB 314.22 | 2768 |





















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| 2500K | 4096 MB | 260.99 | 4267 | ||
| AMD FX-8350, GTX 470, Asus M5A97 Evo Desktop | FX-8350 | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB 314.22 | 4711 |
| Core i7-2700K, GeForce GTX 470, Samsung SSD 470 | 2700K | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB GDDR5 285.62 | 4718 |
| 2600K | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB 310.33 | 4746 | |
| Core i7-3960x, GeForce GTX 470, SSD | 3960X | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB GDDR5 285.62 | 4822 |
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| 2500K | 4096 MB | 260.99 | 4017 | ||
| Core i7-3960x, GeForce GTX 470, SSD | 3960X | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB GDDR5 285.62 | 4334 |
| Core i7-2700K, GeForce GTX 470, Samsung SSD 470 | 2700K | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB GDDR5 285.62 | 4342 |
| 2600K | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB 310.33 | 4377 | |
| AMD FX-8350, GTX 470, Asus M5A97 Evo Desktop | FX-8350 | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB 314.22 | 4393 |
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| 750 | 4096 MB | 260.99 | 14400 | ||
| 2500K | 4096 MB | 260.99 | 15601 | ||
| AMD FX-8350, GTX 470, Asus M5A97 Evo Desktop | FX-8350 | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB 314.22 | 16729 |
| Core i7-2700K, GeForce GTX 470, Samsung SSD 470 | 2700K | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB GDDR5 285.62 | 16777 |
| Core i7-3960x, GeForce GTX 470 | 3960X | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB GDDR5 285.62 | 17982 |
| Core i7-3960x, GeForce GTX 470, SSD | 3960X | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB GDDR5 285.62 | 18100 |
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| 750 | 4096 MB | 260.99 | 15048 | ||
| Core i7-2700K, GeForce GTX 470, Samsung SSD 470 | 2700K | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB GDDR5 285.62 | 15187 |
| 2500K | 4096 MB | 260.99 | 15330 | ||
| Core i7-3960x, GeForce GTX 470 | 3960X | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB GDDR5 285.62 | 15370 |
| Core i7-3960x, GeForce GTX 470, SSD | 3960X | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB GDDR5 285.62 | 15468 |
| AMD FX-8350, GTX 470, Asus M5A97 Evo Desktop | FX-8350 | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB 314.22 | 15484 |
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| Standard 1280x1024 | |||||
| 750 | 4096 MB | 260.99 | 18497 | ||
| AMD FX-8350, GTX 470, Asus M5A97 Evo Desktop | FX-8350 | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB 314.22 | 20462 |
| 2500K | 4096 MB | 260.99 | 22519 | ||
![]() | 920@3.8 | 6144 MB | 1280MB GDDR5 | 22622 | |
| Core i7-2700K, GeForce GTX 470, Samsung SSD 470 | 2700K | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB GDDR5 285.62 | 24564 |
| Core i7-3960x, GeForce GTX 470 | 3960X | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB GDDR5 285.62 | 25787 |
| Core i7-3960x, GeForce GTX 470, SSD | 3960X | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB GDDR5 285.62 | 25881 |
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| 750 | 4096 MB | 260.99 | 70644 | ||
| 2500K | 4096 MB | 260.99 | 75164 | ||
![]() | 920@3.8 | 6144 MB | 1280MB GDDR5 | 75793 |

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| 750 | 4096 MB | 260.99 | 59.9 | ||
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| Toshiba MK6461GSYN 640GB HDD Desktop | 2600K | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB 296.10 | 10435 |
| Core i7-2700K, GeForce GTX 470, Samsung SSD 470 | 2700K | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB GDDR5 285.62 | 17129 |
| Samsung SSD 840 250 GB Desktop | 2600K | 8192 MB | 18342 | ||
| Samsung SSD 470 Desktop | 2600K | 4096 MB | 20335 | ||
| OCZ Vertex 4 256 GB Desktop | 2600K | 8192 MB | 20746 | ||
| Samsung SSD 830 256 GB Desktop | 2600K | 8192 MB | 20852 | ||
| Intel SSD 510 250GB Desktop | 2600K | 4096 MB | 21155 | ||
| Intel SSD 510 250GB Desktop | 2600K | 4096 MB | 21155 | ||
| Core i7-3960x, GeForce GTX 470, SSD | 3960X | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB GDDR5 285.62 | 21346 |
| Intel SSD 520 Series 240GB Desktop | 2600K | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB 285.62 | 22422 |
| OCZ Vector 256 GB Desktop | 2600K | 8192 MB | 22689 | ||
| Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256 GB Desktop | 2600K | 8192 MB | 23183 |

















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| Core i7-3960x, GeForce GTX 470, SSD | 3960X | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB GDDR5 285.62 | 5432 |

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| Core i7-3960x, GeForce GTX 470, SSD | 3960X | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB GDDR5 285.62 | 7.8 |
| Core i7-3960x, GeForce GTX 470 | 3960X | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB GDDR5 285.62 | 7.8 |





















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| Core i7-3960x, GeForce GTX 470, SSD | 3960X | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB GDDR5 285.62 | 7.8 |
| Core i7-3960x, GeForce GTX 470 | 3960X | 8192 MB | 607 / 1674MHz | 1280MB GDDR5 285.62 | 7.8 |




















Game Benchmarks
The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailled information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
AMD FX-Series (Desktop) FX-8350 4GHz
GeForce GTX 470 (607MHz), 1280MB (1674MHz) , 314.22
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GeForce GTX 470 (607MHz), 1280MB (1674MHz) , 313.96
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GeForce GTX 470 (607MHz), 1280MB (1674MHz) , 310.64
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GeForce GTX 470 (607MHz), 1280MB (1674MHz) , 310.33
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Intel Core i7 (Desktop) 2600K 3.4GHz
GeForce GTX 470 (607MHz), 1280MB (1674MHz) , 306.23
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GeForce GTX 470 (607MHz), 1280MB (1674MHz) , 301.42
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GeForce GTX 470 (607MHz), 1280MB (1674MHz) , 296.10
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GeForce GTX 470 (607MHz), 1280MB (1674MHz) , 295.51
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GeForce GTX 470 (607MHz), 1280MB (1674MHz) , 285.62
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