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KFA2 GTX 470 Dissapointment

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I thought the extra 1280MB memory would help quite a lot in benchmarking but was quite dissapointed at how it faired against the GTX 460 OC from Inno3D and the POV GTX 460 Beast with them beating it in:

  • Heaven 2.1
  • Crysis Warhead
  • Mafia II

Only by 2-3FPS but still.

The only game where it came alive and beat the 460's was Dirt 2 by around 15fps.

Anyone else experienced these kind of results?

Andy

EDIT: And it's the EX OC version :(

Andy
 
Extra 1280MB? Did your 460 have negative 256MB of RAM? :p

What's the rest of your PC? You could be experiencing CPU limitations.
 
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T so def not that.

Looking at the specs:

GTX 470 EX OC 1280MB:

Cores - 448
Graphics Clock - 625
Processor Clock - 1250
Memory Clock - 1674
Memory Amount - 1280MB
Memory Interface - 320-bit GDDR5

Inno3D GTX 460 OC 1GB:

Cores - 336
Graphics Clock - 750
Processor Clock - 1350
Memory Clock - 3800
Memory Amount - 1024MB
Memory Interface - 256-bit GDDR5

Barring the shader/cuda cores and the amount of memory and its interface, the GTX 460 OC spanks it on paper.

Andy
 
Also:

Point Of View GTX 460 Beast 1GB:

Cores - 336
Graphics Clock - 855
Processor Clock - 1710
Memory Clock - 4020
Memory Amount - 1024MB
Memory Interface - 256-bit GDDR5

Andy
 
The 460s you have posted about are both heavily overclocked compared to the stock 470.

Thats why the 460s are slightly faster than a stock 470,however overclock your 470 to 800mhz with a little more voltage, and you basically have near on 480 performance
 
stulid said:
LOL.

P.S your memory speed for the GTX470 is not taking into account double data rate, where as your GTX460 spec does!!!
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Still only makes that 3348 which is dire in comparison.

kmufc77 said:
The 460s you have posted about are both heavily overclocked compared to the stock 470.

Thats why the 460s are slightly faster than a stock 470,however overclock your 470 to 800mhz with a little more voltage, and you basically have near on 480 performance
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Guess i was just hoping for better results as the 470 was a overclock version too.

Andy
 
The 470 is overclocked by 18mhz,the 460s are overclocked by 150+mhz,thats a massive difference.
 
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I have not owned a 470, but I have owned 3x GTX 460's, 1x 480 and 1x 580, plus a fair number of recent ATI cards.

All 3 of my 460's overclocked massively. Infact, at 1920x1200 each was able to perform almost as well as a stock 480. I can well understand that the 470 does not feel much better than a 460. 460's are excellent cards with awesomer overclockability.
 
As mentioned, overclock the 470 and it'll show good gains, im only running a modest 750mhz on my two (630mhz @stock), even a single one clocked at 750 coped grand with any game im playing, didnt need any voltage increases either for single or sli overclocks.
 
I'll see what kind of overclocking room i've got with it, but will probably go back to my 6850 crossfire, damn sight quieter than this kfa2 card.

Andy
 
Michaeljcox24 said:
I might be wrong but surely if you need to have both card running at the same clock speed, memory, shader etc to make a real comparison?
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Not necessarily because the cards come at different speeds by default but if overclocking is taken into account, it's good to see how the two cards compare when both are fully overclocked.
 
Rroff said:
OC the 470 at 800MHz it will leave the 460 in its dust.
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What does that actually mean? . . . is that an extra 5 frames per second or? :p

How many frames per second extra would a "proper shoeing" be? . . . how about "mercilessly obliterated"? . . . hehe I love the OcUK forum lingo! ;)
 
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