KitGuru broke a story only recently that the GTX 470 could become discontinued; for the moment it seemed that the model which has become a bit of a favourite of mine is becoming hard to get a hold off.

Throwing on the detective cap it was time to see what’s going on with this story and if it holds any truth. Chasing up our own contacts it seems that NVIDIA are making way for a dual GPU based Fermi card as KitGuru later updated in their post. It seems this isn’t coming at the cost of the GTX 470 but at the cost of GTX 470 supply.

What it seems is that these will be going towards the new dual core model coming out; while no official name has been said the mumbles are it’ll be called the GTX 490. At the moment though we find ourselves a little disappointed.

It seems that the GTX 470 PCB has gone over to the GTX 465 while the cores go over to a new PCB which will create the GTX 490. Unlike ATI though who opted for the best core which was used on the HD 5870 and then clocked the card down to HD 5850 speeds it seems that NVIDIA are going to opt for the second best core (GTX 470) and we’re sure they’ll also clock the model slightly down which means it’ll be slower than a GTX 470 SLI setup.

Of course you throw overclocking into the mix but the same can be said about the HD 5970; at least that was based on the higher spec chip when it came to stream processors and other goodies.

With all that said it doesn’t seem like the GTX 470 is going anywhere; not in the short term anyway. It seems that NVIDIA probably just want to move the cores temporarily over to its new high end model; as yield increases we’ll no doubt see the GTX 470 back in force.