MSI’s GeForce N470GTX & GTX 470 SLI
by Ryan Smith on July 30, 2010 1:28 PM ESTGTX 470 SLI Performance, Cont
Having come from the launch of the GTX 480 and GTX 470 back in late March, NVIDIA has already done a lot to improve the performance of the GTX 470, and as a result in most of our GPU limited games the GTX 470 and the Radeon HD 5870 end up in a close battle for supremacy. This breaks down in Bad Company 2 and STALKER, where AMD still manages to hold on to a lead.
However we see a curious thing when looking at our GTX 470 SLI results: a single GTX 470 is often competitive with a Radeon 5870, but in SLI/CF this ceases to be the case. It’s clear from the first game that the GTX 470 is getting more out of SLI than the Radeon HD 5850/5870 are getting out of Crossfire, and as a result the GTX 470 SLI convincingly wins most of the games in our suite. Only in STALKER and Bad Company 2 do the Radeon cards scale better in CF than the GTX 470 in SLI, which is consistent with the fact that the Radeon cards already do very well in those games in the first place.
Overall the average multi-GPU scaling factor for the 5870CF is 1.71x while the average scaling factor for the GTX 470 is 1.82x. The GTX 470 undoubtedly does a better job scaling in multi-GPU configurations than the 5870 does, leading to the more clear-cut wins for the GTX 470 SLI.
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Harm Nano - Sunday, May 8, 2011 - link
GTX470 SLI RUNS HOT NO MORE ! INSTALLED TWO ZALMAN 3000N COOLERS , TAKING ABOUT DAY AND NIGHT, WELL WORTH THE THE MONEY , TEMPS - BEFORE THE ZALMANS ---KOMBUSTOR 96C -100C LESS THAN A MIN! - FANS AT A 100 % ,LOUD! ,CRYSIS HIGH 80C- TO LOW 90 C, FANS AT 100% AS WELL -- ZALMANS INSTALLED -TEMPS NOW KOMBUSTOR 79C-83C AFTER 5 MIN STEADY AS A ROCK, CRYSIS 67C TO 76C , THE ONLY THING LOUD NOW IS THE CPU COOLER, AT IDLE THE CPU AND THE TWO ZALAMAN ARE AT THE SAME TEMPS 39C [ AMD CORE 23C] , GPU ARE MANUAL SET IN ASUS M4N98TD EVO, MOTHERBOARD BIOS TO RUN MANUAL SET, LOW SET AND HIGH SET ,ON A COOL DAY ,RPM ARE A LOW 1400 ,ON A HOT DAY 2800 TO 3200 RPM , AS AUTO AS YOU CAN GET , COOL AND QUIET , TO FIT SLI ,TWO THINGS, A MUST HAVE ,RIGHT MB ,ASUS M4N98TD EVO AND THE RIGHT CASE ,TEMPEST EVO.