Galaxy to launch a single-slot GeForce GTX 470, GTX 480?

Using nVidia’s experience on their commercial Quadro FX 1800 and 3800 graphics cards, Galaxy created the GTX 260+ Razor Edition – the first consumer single-slot graphics card based on a GT200 chip.

With Computex Taipei opening its doors in two weeks time, Far Eastern board manufacturers are preparing products to woo the distributors and buyers. Galaxy managed to do something unique… their third high-end graphics card using single slot cooling – GC GeForce GTX 470 [first two being 9800GTX and GTX260+].

We’re unsure if the final product will carry the name Razor Edition, but the card certainly is razor thin. Engineers took on their single-slot experience and with several design tweaks managed to come up with the design that can cool down the GeForce GTX 470. The board itself packs 1.28 GB of GDDR5 memory, a Fermi/GF100 chip with 448 cores – all on default clocks.

However, the news does not stop there – to make the matters more interesting, pictures released by Donanim Haber actually don’t show a single-slot GeForce GTX 470. If you carefully take a look at the pictures, you’ll see that the PCB actually belongs to the GeForce GTX 480, and the presence of 8+6-pin PEG [PCI Express Graphics] connectors clearly show that Galaxy might be trying to produce a single slot GTX 480 as well.

Given that AMD has no single-slot cards in their high-end line-up [nor we saw any single-slot 5770s, for that matter], it looks like this Palit subsidiary is seriously counting on filling the single-slot cooler market niche, mostly occupied by owners of compact HTPC cases. Second market niche is not a niche at all – we know at least of several system integrators and PC makers in EMEA and NA that want to solely use single-slot cooling inside their desktop systems. Does this mean a small tower case could fit one of this cards, remains to be seen.

All we know is that single-slot GeForce GTX 470 is a confirmed part and that leaked images actually show a single-slot GTX 480. Make any conclusions yourselves.

Original Author: Theo Valich

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