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My GTX 470 arrived a couple of days ago...
What is very interesting is the fan noise and temps: fan noise @ 70% is not loud at all, just air whooshing at a dull tone, no "whine" or whirring. It is perfectly comfortable to me, whereas a 5870 at above 38% began to emit a whirr, and eventually a hairdryer-like noise @ 70%+ speed. Now, the big surprise here for me was, that the temperatures are nowhere near as high in my system as they are in the reviews... take a look at the data I took from GPU-Z 0.42 and eVGA Precision in my notes:
720c/3520mem 70% fan
NFS Shift peak temp: 76c
BFBC2 peak temp: 80c
SF4 peak temp: 72c
Again, the fan is very unobtrusive noise-wise inside my case (Coolermaster RC690). Idle temperature is 35c after letting it sit for around 25 minutes websurfing.
Anyway, onto the actual performance...
5870 Clocks (for NFS shift #'s) was 925c/4900m (9.11 drivers back then), for BFBC2/SF4 they were stock (850/1200) with 10.2 drivers
GTX 470 Clocks for these tests below: 704c/1408s/3504m, 197.41 drivers
NEED FOR SPEED SHIFT:
2560x1600, 8x AA, 16x AF, transparency multisampling, max options, several laps of Ambush Canyon, DX10
GTX470 OC'd: 53min, 64avg
5870 OC'd @ launch: 32-35min, 50avg
Street Fighter 4:
2560x1600, 8x AA, 16x AF, transparency multisampling, max options w/ ink filter, in-game bench
GTX470 OC'd: 148.2fps avg
5870 stock: 124.4fps avg
Battlefield Bad Company 2:
2560x1600, 4x AA, 16x AF, transparency multisampling, max options w/ HBAO enabled, DX11, Port Valdez "Rush" mode (full game)
GTX470 OC'd: 37min, 52avg
5870 Stock: 25min, 41avg
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A quick Unigine Heaven bench...
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Now that I've had it a couple of days I overclocked further with a voltage tweak:
Results are quite nice, and it scales very well performance-wise! Peak temps are 86c with 73% fan, which is the last step before it becomes "loud" or bothersome to me at all. It is 100% stable through a day+ of gaming with BF Bad Company 2, Warhammer Online, WOW, NFS Shift, SF4, Dirt 2 benching, 3dmark Vantage benching, and Heaven benching.
Overall I am quite impressed with it... . Faster than a 5870 even at the 700 OC (not just for me, see results like this as well: http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/3204/nvidia_geforce_gtx_470_video_card_overclocked/index13.html), and much faster at my 800 OC.
What is very interesting is the fan noise and temps: fan noise @ 70% is not loud at all, just air whooshing at a dull tone, no "whine" or whirring. It is perfectly comfortable to me, whereas a 5870 at above 38% began to emit a whirr, and eventually a hairdryer-like noise @ 70%+ speed. Now, the big surprise here for me was, that the temperatures are nowhere near as high in my system as they are in the reviews... take a look at the data I took from GPU-Z 0.42 and eVGA Precision in my notes:
720c/3520mem 70% fan
NFS Shift peak temp: 76c
BFBC2 peak temp: 80c
SF4 peak temp: 72c
Again, the fan is very unobtrusive noise-wise inside my case (Coolermaster RC690). Idle temperature is 35c after letting it sit for around 25 minutes websurfing.
Anyway, onto the actual performance...
-----TEST SETUP:
Intel i7 920 HT on, 3.72ghz
6GB DDR3 @ 8-8-8-2T timings, 1560mhz
nVidia GTX470 1280MB/ATI Radeon 5870 1GB
256GB Crucial M225-series SSD (Indilinx barefoot controller with samsung nand)
Dell 3007WFP-HC 2560x1600 LCD monitor
5870 Clocks (for NFS shift #'s) was 925c/4900m (9.11 drivers back then), for BFBC2/SF4 they were stock (850/1200) with 10.2 drivers
GTX 470 Clocks for these tests below: 704c/1408s/3504m, 197.41 drivers
NEED FOR SPEED SHIFT:
2560x1600, 8x AA, 16x AF, transparency multisampling, max options, several laps of Ambush Canyon, DX10
GTX470 OC'd: 53min, 64avg
5870 OC'd @ launch: 32-35min, 50avg
Street Fighter 4:
2560x1600, 8x AA, 16x AF, transparency multisampling, max options w/ ink filter, in-game bench
GTX470 OC'd: 148.2fps avg
5870 stock: 124.4fps avg
Battlefield Bad Company 2:
2560x1600, 4x AA, 16x AF, transparency multisampling, max options w/ HBAO enabled, DX11, Port Valdez "Rush" mode (full game)
GTX470 OC'd: 37min, 52avg
5870 Stock: 25min, 41avg
------------
A quick Unigine Heaven bench...
------------
Now that I've had it a couple of days I overclocked further with a voltage tweak:
Results are quite nice, and it scales very well performance-wise! Peak temps are 86c with 73% fan, which is the last step before it becomes "loud" or bothersome to me at all. It is 100% stable through a day+ of gaming with BF Bad Company 2, Warhammer Online, WOW, NFS Shift, SF4, Dirt 2 benching, 3dmark Vantage benching, and Heaven benching.
Overall I am quite impressed with it... . Faster than a 5870 even at the 700 OC (not just for me, see results like this as well: http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/3204/nvidia_geforce_gtx_470_video_card_overclocked/index13.html), and much faster at my 800 OC.
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