1st GTX570 Review !!!

[Duff-Man]

Less rops and memory bandwidth makes it a worse deal than a similar priced 480, and no temps are not a problem with my 480.

Memory bandwidth is higher on the 570 Also the power draw is lower, and the cooler is more efficient.

For an equal price I'm not sure which I would choose... The 570 seems a little more attractive overall, although for a triple-screen setup the smaller amount of memory could be an issue.

 

[RavenXXX2]

With less memory on board and lower memory bandwidth which on a 480 is 185GB/s, the 570 is something like 150GB/s, less ROPs, I'm not surprised it uses marginally less power. The 480 is technically the better card for a similar price, similar to how the 460 1GB and 460 768 compare.

 

[drunkenmaster]

Memory bandwidth is higher on the 570 Also the power draw is lower, and the cooler is more efficient.

For an equal price I'm not sure which I would choose... The 570 seems a little more attractive overall, although for a triple-screen setup the smaller amount of memory could be an issue.

Memory transfer rate, they've finally got some half decent gddr5 speeds on it, but its still a lower bus, 3.8x320 bit is quite a bit less than 3.7x384bit.

They obviously needed to increase the performance gap between the 580/570gtx otherwise who buys a 580gtx. If it was just 32 shaders difference, you're talking about just over 6% more shaders, but they probably want to charge 15-20% more for their premium product. Kill bandwidth a little and increase the performance difference.

 

[dougie06n]

so is it 1400 hrs this afternoon they go on sale then as someone said 0600 hrs PST in another thread i see OCUK has an empty GTX 570 page so cant be long now

 

[Skyrocket]

Much better card Nvidia.
It wont cook you a BBQ and it wont make your ears bleed like the 480.
It will just play games quietley and fastly.

 

[Stromatolites]

so is it 1400 hrs this afternoon they go on sale then as someone said 0600 hrs PST in another thread i see OCUK has an empty GTX 570 page so cant be long now

2pmGMT and 6amPST are the same thing

 

[MoRT489]

With less memory on board and lower memory bandwidth which on a 480 is 185GB/s, the 570 is something like 150GB/s, less ROPs, I'm not surprised it uses marginally less power. The 480 is technically the better card for a similar price, similar to how the 460 1GB and 460 768 compare.

Memory bandwidth won't make that much difference to performance, 160GB/s is more than enough to cover any bottleneck concerns.

- http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=17945955&postcount=5

so 160GB/s is more than enough to cover bottlenecks but 150GB/s in this case is disappointing? It seems like ur just trying to defend ur choice to stick with the 480 in every thread over the last week. Honestly, u dont have to, just enjoy ur card

 

[Skyrocket]

- http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=17945955&postcount=5

so 160GB/s is more than enough to cover bottlenecks but 150GB/s in this case is disappointing? It seems like ur just trying to defend ur choice to stick with the 480 in every thread over the last week. Honestly, u dont have to, just enjoy ur card

Top post!

 

[RavenXXX2]

Still a fact it has less memory bandwidth which I never said it would be a bottleneck for it did I?

 

[nicnik]

taken down already so anyone manage to remember the power usage, and if overclocked in the review wot clocks/power it reached?

 

[AWPC]

Official price is apparently £289.99 in UK which is still a stretch when $329.99=£209 or £246 when you include VAT

 

[Aurhinius]

welcome to rip off britain?

 

[drunkenmaster]

- http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=17945955&postcount=5

so 160GB/s is more than enough to cover bottlenecks but 150GB/s in this case is disappointing? It seems like ur just trying to defend ur choice to stick with the 480 in every thread over the last week. Honestly, u dont have to, just enjoy ur card

its worth pointing out that AMD have had better texture compression for MANY years now, to the tune that 256mb x1900xt's beat 8800 gts 320mb cards at high res quite easily as the 8800 320mb became memory limited, we've seen this quite frequently.

In other words, Nvidia cards tend to need a bit more bandwidth to do the same resolution/aa settings due to simply needing to transport more data

 

[555BUK]

I conducted the following expirement to determine the effects of memory bandwidth on "GTX 580 class" graphics cards.

#1 Run Vantage benchmark at Extreme settings with my GTX 580 at stock 4000MHz memory clocks.

#2 Run Vantage benchmark at Extreme settings with my GTX 580 downclocked at 3333MHz memory clocks. On a 384bit bus this provides the same bandwidth as suggested GTX 570 & 6970 clocks.

#Result
Differences for this benchmark are noticeable, but only by 3-4%. I will try to add some other benches later.

 

[pieman109]

tomshardware has got a GTX 570 review up here if anyones interested

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-570-gf110-performance,2806.html

 

[Ezyryder]

Thanks - amazing what a pair of 6850 can do in crossfire though!

 

[pieman109]

Thanks - amazing what a pair of 6850 can do in crossfire though!

Tend to agree there mate. Considering the cost, you could get two 6850s and Xfire them for just a bit less than one gtx 570 (if they retail at £300ish).Xfire performance is exceptional.

 

[robgmun]

Or a pair of 460 1Gb's can do for roughly the same price as a 570! (22000 in 3dmark)

 

[pieman109]

Or a pair of 460 1Gb's can do for roughly the same price as a 570! (22000 in 3dmark)

Old tech

 

[Relentless81]

Thanks - amazing what a pair of 6850 can do in crossfire though!

Tend to agree there mate. Considering the cost, you could get two 6850s and Xfire them for just a bit less than one gtx 570 (if they retail at £300ish).Xfire performance is exceptional.

Depends, I dont have that option and i'm in the market for a new card, I never buy top of the range as i've never seen the point so the 570 is looking like a very good option to me right now, surely it will be quieter and less heat than a Xfire too?