GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition: specs and benchmarks
Summary
This is a desktop graphics card based on a Fermi architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 1280 MB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 3.3 GB/s are supplied, and together with 320 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 133.9 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 215 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Fermi (2010−2014) | |
| GPU code name | GF100 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | no data |
Detailed specifications
GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 448 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 608 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 3,100 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 215 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 34.05 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 40 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 56 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1280 MB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 320 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 3.3 GB/s | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 133.9 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a | |
| HDMI | + |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 2.0 |
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