Technical data / specifications
The new GTX470 is based on NVIDIA's NF100 Fermi chip which is being manufactured at TSMC using the 40-nm-process. On of the consequences of using 3.2 billion transistors is a high power consumption which is 215 Watts for this very card. Therefore the thing isn't exactly economical and a lot of heat is being generated under load. No matter if there is a GTX470 or GTX480 the chip itself is always the same. Apart from the clock, which is quite obvious, the differences you'll find when you look at the number of shader cores, ROPs and the memory interface. These thing vary between the different models.
|
GTX 480 |
ASUS ENGTX470 |
ASUS EAH5870 |
Chip |
GF100 |
GF100 |
RV870 |
Process |
40 nm |
40 nm |
40 nm |
Transistors |
3.2 billion |
3.2 billion |
2.15 billion |
GPU clock |
700 MHz |
607 MHz |
725 MHz |
Shader clock |
1'401 MHz |
1'215 MHz |
850 MHz |
Memory |
1'536 MB GDDR5 |
1'280 MB GDDR5 |
1'024 MB GDDR5 |
Memory clock |
1'848 MHz |
1'676 MHz |
2'000 MHz |
Memory interface |
384 Bit |
320 Bit |
256 Bit |
Memory bandwidth |
177'408 MB/s |
134'000 MB/s |
128'000 MB/s |
TMUs |
60 |
56 |
80 |
TAUs |
60 |
56 |
80 |
Shader Cores |
480 (1D) |
448 (1D) |
288 (5D) |
ROPs |
48 ROP |
40 ROP |
32 ROP |
Shader model |
SM 5 |
SM 5 |
SM 5 |
Maximum board power |
250 Watt |
215 Watt |
188 Watt |
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