Since the official launch of Fermi is on Friday US / late Friday night / Saturday morning in Europe, we are getting the last hidden details on the of slower of two Fermi cards.
Geforce GTX 470 has 448 cores, packs 1280MHz GDDR5 memory with a 320-bit memory interface clocked at 1674MHz has a TDP of 215W.
This is still
much higher than Radeon HD 5870 TDP of 188W, or 170W TDP of Radeon HD 5850, but
as long as it's faster, end users won't mind the TDP value. However, 215W is not a small value for slower of two cards and it will generate quite some heat, but with the help of Nvidia's new fan, temperature should be within the normal range.
Geforce GTX 470
shaders work at 1215MHz or twice as fast as 607MHz core clock and the
performance of this card should be close to Radeon HD 5870 and definitely
faster than HD 5850.