With its Radeon HD 5000-series graphics cards released six months ago, ATI would seem to have the graphics card market sewn up. NVIDIA hasn’t been sitting idle though, and has been working on its own DirectX 11 cards, code-named Fermi. Here we’re looking at the cheaper GeForce GTX 470.

Its price to puts it into competition with ATI’s high-end Radeon HD 5870 and HD 5850 (see below) graphics cards. A more powerful GTX 480 card is also available, but with prices starting around £480 inc VAT, it’s beyond the budget of the vast majority of gamers

As you’d expect from a modern graphics card, the GTX 470 is DirectX 11-compliant. This evolution of DirectX 10 introduces some big improvements. The main ones are tessellation, DirectCompute and multithreaded rendering.

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