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On The Bench: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 470 Super Overclock

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 470 SOC review

From what we measured, this card consumes roughly 215 Watts when 100% utilized, compared to the competition that's too high, but we discussed the Fermi TDP many times already, nothing new there. It is a choice you have to make.

So overall we really like what Gigabyte did here with this SOC model, the custom cooler is certainly really good and you'll notice severe improvement in cooling at an absolute low noise level. The biggest difficulty obviously remains ATI, lined up against the GTX 470 would be the Radeon HD 5850 which can be purchased at 275 EUR these days saving you roughly 50 EUR while consuming less power with its TDP at 170W. The reality however is that the SOC edition is competing with the similar priced Radeon HD 5870, thanks to it's pre-overclock.

That product could make more sense if the price is right. But, this product comes pre-overclocked and you'd also forfeit on PhysX and CUDA though.

Whatever your choice may be, Gigabyte did a really nice job on the GeForce GTX 470, they transformed and morphed it into a product with a somewhat bad reputation to something really nice and inaudible. TDP remains high, but other then that this card is very much recommended. But make sure you have proper ventilation in your PC chassis though.

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