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
Now we know where nvidias wood screw inventory went :nutkick:
At least you could cook at the same time you are playing videogames :laugh:
Yes it is using the VC like the 260+ Razor. It's an early engineering sample that's why it looks raw and ugly. I can assure final version will definitly look better. We'll also remove one DVI port to let some of the hot air to blow out from the case.
We're using a speical PCB (480 anyone :)) that is longer to maximize the surface area.
Although I'm not a sales guy I do heard we sell quite well in China in India.. And in US you can buy our cards in stores like BBY. But if you're looking for a high end card you'd better shopping at e-tail like tiger...they have our GTX 470 GC for sale already..
www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6247554&Sku=G458-0477
Galaxy has some balls for even trying this :D
Either way, kudos to Galaxy, seems they are taking a leaf out of Sapphire's book and starting to innovate instead of just releasing the same boring reference design like everyone else - now if only their cards were available in South Africa (hint hint)...
In all honesty, on a card like this, I'd rather see a DMS-59 single port used, with the dongle for dual DVI or HDMI with another adaptor, and the rest of the slot used to vent the hot air out of the case.