Monday, May 17th 2010
Galaxy Readies Single-Slot GeForce GTX 470 Graphics Card
Galaxy is working on a single-slot graphics card based on the GF100 in its GeForce GTX 470 version. If that didn't boggle your mind, the fact that it's not another card with a water-block, but a single-piece air-cooled card surely will. Enter the Galaxy GTX 470 model known as "Katana" in Japan and "Razor" in other markets. The PCB appears to be a little over 10 inches long, looks-wise makes use of Galaxy's Blue-silver-copper scheme from its other non-reference GTX 470 GC card.
The single-slot air cooler covers the entire length of the PCB, with a fan that draws air from both sides of the PCB, and has grills that reveal the cooler's internal network of copper air-channels, and a slab of copper that is spread across most of the PCB's area that holds the GPU and memory. The cooler makes use of vapour-chamber technology. The card draws power from 8-pin and 6-pin power connectors. It is 4-way SLI capable. It is expected that the card comes with at least NVIDIA reference clock speeds, all other specifications remain the same: 448 CUDA cores, 1280 MB of GDDR5 memory across 320-bit interface, and connectivity which includes two DVI-D and a mini HDMI. It is expected to deck up Galaxy's Computex booth.
Sources:
4Gamer.net, Kakaku
The single-slot air cooler covers the entire length of the PCB, with a fan that draws air from both sides of the PCB, and has grills that reveal the cooler's internal network of copper air-channels, and a slab of copper that is spread across most of the PCB's area that holds the GPU and memory. The cooler makes use of vapour-chamber technology. The card draws power from 8-pin and 6-pin power connectors. It is 4-way SLI capable. It is expected that the card comes with at least NVIDIA reference clock speeds, all other specifications remain the same: 448 CUDA cores, 1280 MB of GDDR5 memory across 320-bit interface, and connectivity which includes two DVI-D and a mini HDMI. It is expected to deck up Galaxy's Computex booth.
70 Comments on Galaxy Readies Single-Slot GeForce GTX 470 Graphics Card
It looks like a toy. But i guess its the performance, heat and power consumption that matters more. :laugh:
4850 used 110 W while 470 uses 220 ?
could prolly be pushed down quite a few watts with undervolting, but still, gonna be noisy, hot, and mediocre performance. Hell! i'm running TWO! 5850 Dualslots with a 6 core and a 850 W psu a SSD.
it will be good in PICO ITX since mini-itx can mostly run dualslot.
I dont see the point in the singleslot....
Side note: that concept and fan is similar to my old GF9600 and in now way is that cooling enough unless it is not a 470 but a 460 ....!!! hahahaha
The friend in India is not goping to play any games this summer, apart from chess!!!!
I wonder what the heatsink looks like. The 260 single slotter had a copper brick on it.
A better alternative to the stock fan would be to increase/monitor case airflow. Exceptional air flow is a MUST!
:slap:
Physics fail
(cos its HOT)