Palit GTX 470 Review - PAGE 1

Palit Goes 40nm

Once again we're at a time when video cards are being released, left, right, and center! Multiple companies are releasing cards from the same generation, and in order to keep the competition interesting they add in some of their own features. For many users this is great, for others a little ridiculous, and some find that this makes the decision of an upgrade even harder.

If you do decide you want to upgrade your video card, you'll need to figure out which card you'll be upgrading to. Will you go with ATI, or will you choose to indulge in one of Nvidia's new releases. While both teams offer cards with great benefits, let's focus on one of Nvidia's newer cards. I'm of course talking about the GTX 470.

So what's new with this 40nm GPU? Well it's equipped with 1280MB of GDDR5 on a 320Bit bus, as well as DirectX 11 support. This beast of a chip is also stuffed with 448 stream processors, and 3200 million transistors. In fact, the GTX 470 uses the same GF100 chip the GTX 480 uses. It just utilizes a little less then the GTX 480. To be exact, the GTX 470 uses 32 less stream processors, four less TMUs, and eight less ROPs. The card also has a slightly smaller memory bus, and slightly less memory bandwidth. However, this card should still rip most games to shreds!

We can't just talk about a GTX 470 without taking a look at one, so let's take a look at Palit's version of the GTX 470. This is not an overclocked version of the GTX 470, but the card does have something very special about it. That is of course Palit's "Cooler & Quieter Thermal Design." How exactly will this baby stack up in our charts? Let's find out!