Computex 2010: Galaxy's Dual GPU GTX 470

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 11:26:30 Wed, June 02, 2010

HotHardware has been kind enough to share some pics of Galaxy's GeForce GTX 470 Dual prototype with the world. The card is a 12 inches long, requires two 8 pin PCI-E power connectors and in the realm of display connectors, it has only 3 DVI ports. Three DVI ports on a dual GPU Fermi card may mean nothing to you (or HotHardware) but I seem to recall that Nvidia's 3D Vision Surround requires two Fermi cards in SLI and three DVI ports (2 on one card and 1 on the second). So it seems like this one card could be marketed as the perfect 3D Vision Surround card.

Hot Hardware's picture of the dual GPU GTX 470

4 Comments

Wednesday, June 02, 2010 12:35:50 PM

Casecutter
Member

When you are only getting a couple a 470's chips per wafer and the 480 is too inefficient and hot this is what you%u2019re left with a $700-800 3D Vision Surround card?

Wednesday, June 02, 2010 3:43:31 PM

anonymousD
n00b

power,heat come to mind. :)

someone said its just a paperweight,albeit good looking, because of missing traces or such

ps dual gtx 465 ;) count the ram chips

Wednesday, June 02, 2010 4:48:54 PM

aliquidparadigm
Senior Member

Paperweight? Nah, more like fire-starter. You could destroy a Terminator with two of those in SLI, just stick its face in the exhaust.

Wednesday, June 09, 2010 6:12:29 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

This is just riddiculous ... they actually made a bleeding dual GPU card ?
It's probably going to be the single most power hungry and hot card in the history of graphics cards .
I mean it takes a 20W fan and a 4 heatpipe stock cooler to keep the GTX470 at 90C under load so whats this beast going to need ?

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