# small fraction of cores available for geforce 470 **URL:** \ **Category:** CUDA Programming and Performance\ **Created:** [June 29, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/small-fraction-of-cores-available-for-geforce-470/17393 "2010-06-29T03:36:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mherndon](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@mherndon](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/mherndon)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/small-fraction-of-cores-available-for-geforce-470/17393/1 "2010-06-29T03:36:41Z")
I purchased a geforce 470 which is supposed to have 448 cuda cores. When I run the device queuery example from the SDK it shows I only have 112 cores. A lot of the SDK examples will not run as it give the infamous “failure to launch” error. Any help would be appreciated ---
**Author:** ![tmurray](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@tmurray](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/tmurray)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 4:45am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/small-fraction-of-cores-available-for-geforce-470/17393/2 "2010-06-29T04:45:57Z")
Install a 3.0 toolkit and SDK. ---
**Author:** ![tmurray](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@tmurray](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/tmurray)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 4:45am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/small-fraction-of-cores-available-for-geforce-470/17393/3 "2010-06-29T04:45:57Z")
Install a 3.0 toolkit and SDK. ---
**Author:** ![mherndon](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@mherndon](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/mherndon)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/small-fraction-of-cores-available-for-geforce-470/17393/4 "2010-06-29T16:47:39Z")
> [@](#): > > Install a 3.0 toolkit and SDK. thank you Did I miss something? Where was it mentioned that version 3.0 is required for the 470? ---
**Author:** ![mherndon](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@mherndon](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/mherndon)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/small-fraction-of-cores-available-for-geforce-470/17393/5 "2010-06-29T16:47:39Z")
> [@](#): > > Install a 3.0 toolkit and SDK. thank you Did I miss something? Where was it mentioned that version 3.0 is required for the 470? ---
**Author:** ![seibert](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/seibert/32/520688_2.png) [@seibert](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/seibert)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/small-fraction-of-cores-available-for-geforce-470/17393/6 "2010-06-29T18:09:27Z")
> [@](#): > > Did I miss something? Where was it mentioned that version 3.0 is required for the 470? The CUDA 3.0 release page starts with the feature “Support for the new Fermi architecture…” ---
**Author:** ![seibert](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/seibert/32/520688_2.png) [@seibert](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/seibert)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/small-fraction-of-cores-available-for-geforce-470/17393/7 "2010-06-29T18:09:27Z")
> [@](#): > > Did I miss something? Where was it mentioned that version 3.0 is required for the 470? The CUDA 3.0 release page starts with the feature “Support for the new Fermi architecture…” ---
**Author:** ![tmurray](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@tmurray](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/tmurray)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/small-fraction-of-cores-available-for-geforce-470/17393/8 "2010-06-29T20:21:33Z")
the 2.3 SDK makes a lot of assumptions about GPUs that are not true for GF100 either ---
**Author:** ![tmurray](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@tmurray](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/tmurray)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/small-fraction-of-cores-available-for-geforce-470/17393/9 "2010-06-29T20:21:33Z")
the 2.3 SDK makes a lot of assumptions about GPUs that are not true for GF100 either