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What is the difference besides clock speed of a 460 vs 470

tweakboy

tweakboy

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I have pretty much made up my mind for a EVGA superclocked 470 1.2GB for 269.99 free shipping from amazon.


My question is besides the clock speeds what differs these cards. Does the 470 have a higher bandwidth or is the memory faster etc.. thanks

I mean if clocks are the only difference might as well settle for a 460 for 70 dollars less. Thanks

I do know 470 uses 235watts while 360 uses 150watts of power.. Thanks and gb
 
Look I own the EVGA GTX470. And I strongly advise that if you want a similar NV card, grab the GTX460 850mhz FTW for $220.

It will run quieter and consume less power than the 470; and performance will be at least as good.

Check GPUreview.com (Compare Cards) for differences in specifications. 460 has higher texture fill-rate out of the box.
 
All this is taken directly from wiki, and Ive heard other numbers on the watt use but...
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_400_Series

460: 7 SM, 675mhz GPU,1350 shader, 3600mhz mem, 256bit bus,
470: 14 SM, 607mhz GPU, 1215 shader, 3348mhz mem, 320bit bus,

460: 21.6 Gigapixle/s, 37.8 GT/s, 115.2 GB/s bandwidth, 907.2 gigaflops
470: 24.28 Gigapixle/s, 34 GT/s, 133.9 GB/s bandwidth, 1088.64 gigaflops

energy used:
460 = 160watts under load.
470 = 215watts under load.



the mhz of the gpu/mem/shaders are not they only differnces.

a overclocked 460 might match a stock 470.
but a overclocked 470 will be faster than a overclocked 460.
 
Arkadrel said:
a overclocked 460 might match a stock 470.
but a overclocked 470 will be faster than a overclocked 460.
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True, but the noise and power consumption of an overclocked 470 are not for everyone. The way I see it, he can grab the 460 850mhz = 470. Save $$$ in the process. Now he will have 90 days to step up to a better card should NV release something like GTX560/570/580 within the next 3 months. This way he can put the extra $50+ towards a GTX570 for example.
 
thats true.

Yeah I dont think nvidia will release their 580/570s until after christmas either.

Tweakboy you could hold off a few weeks and get a 6950 thats going to be faster than your 470, and probably use less energy. The 6950 is supposed to be a 480 competitor maybe slightly faster than that, and a 6970 is supposed to be like 480+20~30% performance. Their supposed to comeout in mid- november.
 
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The GTX 470 also has more memory... 1280 vs the 1024 that the GTX 460 has... and cores...
 
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The gtx470 is about 20% faster, 🙂 ,has more sp's and less tmu's, and consumes more power.

Tweakster, go to Newegg buy a MSI gtx460 HAWK, overclock it to 900 core, and enjoy 5870 performance for 200$. Trust me bro.
 
happy medium said:
The gtx470 is about 20% faster, 🙂 ,has more sp's and less tmu's, and consumes more power.

Tweakster, go to Newegg buy a MSI gtx460 HAWK, overclock it to 900 core, and enjoy 5870 performance for 200$. Trust me bro.
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the gtx470 and 460 both have 56 tmus. the HAWK gtx460 card is loud so I would go with the new gigabyte superclocked gtx460 that can do 900 with no additional voltage and runs cool and quiet. http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=27185&page=1


tweakboy, I cant believe you would ask such a question seeing as you are ocd about specs and details.
 
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Thanks all for the posts.. Looks like Im gonna hold off between the 460 850Mhz core you sent me and a EVGA 470 or 460 . Im going to use riva tuner so noise I can churn to like 55 percent in Windoz and 100 percent when gonna game. I use HP's so I dont hear the loud fan. Sickamore thx ,ya Im gonna hold off and see how Nov and Christmas plays out to January Feb when I pull the trigger. thx
 
But also if you get a 460 @ 900Mhz its not the same as a 470 @ 900Mhz , it has more shader processors and higher memory bandwidth which will give a nice boost in FPS.

Hmm I think 470 is the way to go. Ill wait until nVidia releases 580 GTX in Dec supposedly then I will pull the trigger.
 
Go with Cayman and a 69xx card if those prove to be better tweak. Dont lock yourself into a brand, bad thing to do!

Waiting at this point is a good idea, especially since you got an ok card to carry you trough to december
 
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