Nvidia GTX 570 Review
Posted by Kathleen Maher on December 8th 2010 | Discuss
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Latest edition to product line is a winner
Nvidia has released the latest in their Fermi series a lower cost Enthusiast class AIB named the GeForce GTX 570.
On a performance basis the AIB is very close to the GTX 480 that came out last year and with 1.5 GB can be found today for $450.
The new GTX 570 with 1.25 GB of GDDR5 was introduced this week at $349. Like previous GPUs from Nvidia, you will find that some of their AIB partners will also offer OC SKUs that of course will sell a little higher than that.
The performance comparison isn’t too had to understand since the GTX 480 has 480 cores and so does the GTX 570, and the GTX 570 is running them 5% faster at 732 MHz, also the memory clock is 5% higher at 1.9 GHz.
We ran the new GTX 570 through the usual battery of tests (Aliens vs. Predators, Lost Planet 2, Metro 2033, and Unigine Heaven) and averaged the FPS at three popular resolutions as shown in the preceding chart. We also ran the new Futuremark 3DMark 11 test.
The GTX 570 uses a binned version of the Fermi GF 110 and even uses the GF 110 chip labeling.
What do we think?
The GTX 570 fits in a perfect spot for a lower entry Enthusiast AIB. Good price, good scores, and OK power consumption. We didn’t do a Pmark analysis because users in the Enthusiast class don’t really care that much.
| Graphics Card | GeForce GTX 570 125GB | |
|---|---|---|
| Processing Units | Graphics Processing Clusters | 4 |
| Streaming Multiprocessors | 15 | |
| CUDA Cores | 480 | |
| Texture Units | 60 | |
| ROP Units | 40 | |
| Clock Speeds | Graphics Clock (Fixed Function Units) | 732 MHz |
| Processor Clock (CUDA Cores) | 1464 MHz | |
| Memory Clock (Data rate) | 3800 MHz | |
| Memory | L2 Cache Size | 640KB |
| Total Video Memory | 1280MB GDDR5 | |
| Memory Interface | 320-bit | |
| Total Memory Bandwidth | 152 GB/s | |
| Fillrate | Texture Filtering Rate (Bilinear) | 439 GigaTexels/sec |
| Physical & Thermal | Fabrication Process | 40 nm |
| Transistor Count | 3 Billion | |
| Connectors | 2 x Dual-Link DVI-I | |
| 1 x Mini HDMI | ||
| Form Factor | Dual Slot | |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP)[1] | 219 Watts | |
