Graphics card overview

GeForce GTX 470

Nvidia

GeForce GTX 470

1280 Mb GDDR5 Released 26 Mar 2010 DESKTOP

Core configuration

GPU	GF100
Architecture	Nvidia_Fermi
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs	448 : 56 : 40
Raytracing Cores	none
Performance	1089.00 GFLOPs

Memory configuration

Memory Size	1280 Mb
Memory Bus Width	320 bit
Memory Speed	837 MHz 3348 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth	134.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The GeForce GTX 470 is a graphics card released by Nvidia on 26 Mar 2010. The graphics card houses the GF100 die, based on the Nvidia_Fermi architecture which packs 3,100 million transistors on a 40 nm, 529 mm² die.

GeForce GTX 470 pros and cons

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Specifications

Compared to similar performing cards

	GeForce GTX 470	GeForce GTX 750 Compare	Radeon R7 260X Compare	Radeon HD 7790 Compare	GeForce GTX 650 Ti Compare
Shader units	448	512	896	896	768
ROPs	40	16	16	16	16
Graphics processor	GF100	GM107	Bonaire	Bonaire	GK106
Process size	40 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm
Memory	1280 Mb GDDR5 (837 MHz 3348 MHz effective)	1024 Mb GDDR5 (1253 MHz 5012 MHz effective)	2048 Mb GDDR5 (1625 MHz 6500 MHz effective)	1024 Mb GDDR5 (1500 MHz 6000 MHz effective)	1024 Mb GDDR5 (1350 MHz 5400 MHz effective)
Memory bus width	320 bit	128 bit	128 bit	128 bit	128 bit
Memory bandwidth	134.00 Gb/s	80.20 Gb/s	104.00 Gb/s	96.00 Gb/s	86.40 Gb/s
Release date	26 Mar 2010	18 Feb 2014	8 Oct 2013	22 Mar 2013	9 Oct 2012