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Gainward GTX470 Golden Sample - GOOD

Power of a Golden Sample
Author: Jouni 'Jipa' Vasama
Published: 20.06.2010
Manufacturer: Gainward
Product Group: Graphics cards
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Power Consumption

 

Gainward GTX470 Golden Sample - GOOD - Power of a Golden Sample
 

Unfortunately this is the area where the GTX 470 really fails. The GTX 470 tops the charts by drawing massive 460 watts from the grid, where as the otherwise very similar HD 5850-setup only consumed 311 W under full load. At idle the numbers look better for the GTX 470, with the difference being only 14 watts.

 

Noise

Keeping the high TDP of the GTX 4-series cards in mind, it's no surprise the cooling needs to be quite beefy and unfortunately also noisy. The Gainward design is no exception and under load it gets very noisy. In our over clocking tests in the open test bed the fans hit 60% speed and even at this level the noise is pretty unbearable. With the card inside a case and with some gaming sounds on it's bearable, if still very much audible.



Conclusion


PROS 
  • Performance


    • CONS 
  • Noisy
  • Power consumption
    		•
    Award
    Gold Award!


    The Gainward GTX 470 GS GOOD sure is a fast card, and also matched nicely the performance of the Ati HD 5850 in all the tests. At high AA/AF-settings it usually managed to pull a slightly larger lead over the competition. Overclocking the card was a bit strange experience as there was barely any headroom left on the memory chips, but the already factory overclocked GPU/shader clock could be pushed yet another 50 MHz (100 MHz on SP) higher.

    Unfortunately the performance of the 470 GTX comes at a price and it consumes way more power than the HD5850 at both idle and load, which ofcourse also leads to high core temperature and lots of noise from the two fans. We don't have a reference GTX 470 around so it's hard to tell how well Gainward has succeeded with their cooler.




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