A Closer Look

Palit's cooler feels solid and looks well engineered. A central copper base plate soaks up the heat from the GPU core and transfers it to a large number of fins which sit in the airflow of the two fans.


The Palit GTX 470 requires two 6-pin PCI-Express power connectors to run, just like the reference design.


The GDDR5 memory chips are made by Samsung, and carry the model number K4G10325FE-HC05. They are specified to run at 1000 MHz (4000 MHz GDDR5 effective).


OnSemi's NCP5392 is a cost-effective VRM solution that helps Palit build the card at a lower price than the NVIDIA reference design. Just like the reference design, the chip does not support I2C voltage control. However, thanks to NVIDIA's latest engineering efforts it is possible to adjust voltage using VID method.


NVIDIA's GeForce 100 graphics processor is made on a 40 nm process at TSMC Taiwan. It uses approximately 3.2 billion transistors which makes it the most complex GPU built to-date. Please note that the silvery metal surface you see is the heatspreader of the GPU which measures 42.3 x 42.3 mm. The actual GPU die is sitting under the heatspreader, its dimensions are not known. NVIDIA did not communicate a die size measurement to the press.