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The GTX 470 was a high-end card during its time, being the second-fastest single-GPU offering in the GeForce 400 series. It's still a very capable card, but it has been supplanted by cards with similar (gaming) performance with lower power consumption. However, it's still a very strong GPGPU and crunching performer.

GK104 should outproduce GF104/114 in terms of GPGPU performance, but it will likely be behind the GF100/GF110, as this is not a card purposed for GPGPU processes. When GK110 comes along later this year we should see a GPGPU MONSTER.

You can check out my GTX470 vs GTX570 comparison from a year or two back to give you an idea of its performance relative to last year's #2 in nVidia's lineup: http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/895590-gtx470-vs-gtx570-comparison.html
     
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Relative to newer games out there nowadays, I would say it's a good mid-range card. 470 is comparable to a 560ti, but not the 560ti 448 core edition which is comparable to the 570
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The GTX 470 was a high-end card during its time, being the second-fastest single-GPU offering in the GeForce 400 series. It's still a very capable card, but it has been supplanted by cards with similar (gaming) performance with lower power consumption. However, it's still a very strong GPGPU and crunching performer.
GK104 should outproduce GF104/114 in terms of GPGPU performance, but it will likely be behind the GF100/GF110, as this is not a card purposed for GPGPU processes. When GK110 comes along later this year we should see a GPGPU MONSTER.
You can check out my GTX470 vs GTX570 comparison from a year or two back to give you an idea of its performance relative to last year's #2 in nVidia's lineup: http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/895590-gtx470-vs-gtx570-comparison.html


Its a difficult on how to classify the GTX 470. Even though it was the 2nd fastest single GPU that Nvidia offered, it was quite slow at stock speeds (clocked at around 600MHz, it was destined to fall short to the 5850/5870).

 

Another thing to take account of is how well the drivers matured. Mature drivers really such huge impact on performance to a point where a overclocked 470 could easily match an overclocked 5870.


Overclocked, the 470s were beastly. I have used eight 470s in my time, and I still wish I had them. Unfortunately, when I upgraded to a higher resolution screen, I needed the extra VRAM.

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I'd say it was definitely high end when released, and is still very good. Very similar in performance (when overclocked) to my 560Ti, which still maxes almost every game at 1080p. So unless you have a specific game you're getting insufficient frame rates in, or just want to upgrade for whatever reason, I'd say you don't need to, as (with a couple of exception), higher end GPUs are still way ahead of the curve relative to the requirements of the majority of games released.
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Its a difficult on how to classify the GTX 470. Even though it was the 2nd fastest single GPU that Nvidia offered, it was quite slow at stock speeds (clocked at around 600MHz, it was destined to fall short to the 5850/5870).
Another thing to take account of is how well the drivers matured. Mature drivers really such huge impact on performance to a point where a overclocked 470 could easily match an overclocked 5870.
Overclocked, the 470s were beastly. I have used eight 470s in my time, and I still wish I had them. Unfortunately, when I upgraded to a higher resolution screen, I needed the extra VRAM.

The driver maturation progress really did help the GTX 470s. They turned into stalwart performers and they overclocked effortlessly. I miss my Twin Frozr II model wink.gif That is still my favorite non-reference heatsink to date. They took a step backward with Twin Frozr III as far as I'm concerned.
     
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The driver maturation progress really did help the GTX 470s. They turned into stalwart performers and they overclocked effortlessly. I miss my Twin Frozr II model wink.gif That is still my favorite non-reference heatsink to date. They took a step backward with Twin Frozr III as far as I'm concerned.

 

I had a 465 GE version. Top 3 card on my list. Got over 900MHz core and it was on par with a 800MHz GTX 480 that I tested with.

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I consider the GTX 470 a mid-range card now. At 1920x1080, it does have trouble with higher settings on most games. At 1680x1050 or lower, this is still a wonderful GPU to max out most games. I would compare it to a slightly underclocked GTX 560 ti graphics card.

If you plan on upgrading, I wouldn't consider anything less than a GTX 570 / HD 6970.
    
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My GTX 470 is a beast when overclocked. I have no idea whatsoever what the performance is like at stock clocks, as I have never used those.
At 850/1000/1700Mhz I can run everything I need and want to.

I consider it as a high-end card, but I understand that most people probably won't.
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The GTX 470 was a high-end card during its time, being the second-fastest single-GPU offering in the GeForce 400 series. It's still a very capable card, but it has been supplanted by cards with similar (gaming) performance with lower power consumption. However, it's still a very strong GPGPU and crunching performer.
GK104 should outproduce GF104/114 in terms of GPGPU performance, but it will likely be behind the GF100/GF110, as this is not a card purposed for GPGPU processes. When GK110 comes along later this year we should see a GPGPU MONSTER.
You can check out my GTX470 vs GTX570 comparison from a year or two back to give you an idea of its performance relative to last year's #2 in nVidia's lineup: http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/895590-gtx470-vs-gtx570-comparison.html
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I love my GTX470's, scores 10.8K in 3DMark 11. You can buy a pair for around 300-400 bucks and overclock it and have more graphics power then a gtx680.

Really a GTX560ti 448 core is nothing more then a overclocked gtx470 as well. The GTX470 was a mid-high range GPU that offered High end performance. With 850 on the core, the cards start to perform closely to a GTX580 which is pretty impressive. And with its 1.25gb of vram over the gtx560ti's the choice is easy. I have a 1gb gtx465 and can easily tell you how easy it is to fill that up, that extra 256mb of v-ram helps with frames drops big time. Using ultra textures in BF3 is pretty much impossible without frame drops with a 1gb card, though it works fine with 1.25gb.

If you want great performance with low cost, the GTX4XX series have been pretty good at offering it. Other then Being power hungry and the fact that it puts off a lot of heat.
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