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Processor | AMD Ryzen 5 7600 |
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Motherboard | Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite AX |
Cooling | Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE |
Memory | Kingston Fury Beast DDR5-5600 16GBx2 |
Video Card(s) | Gigabyte Gaming OC AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16GB |
Storage | TEAMGROUP T-Force Z440 2TB, SPower A60 2TB, SPower A55 2TB, Seagate 4TBx2, Samsung 870 2TB |
Display(s) | AOC 24G2 + Xitrix WFP-2415 |
Case | Montech Air X |
Audio Device(s) | Realtek onboard |
Power Supply | Be Quiet! Pure Power 11 FM 750W 80+ Gold |
Mouse | Logitech G304 |
Keyboard | Redragon K557 KAIA RGB Mechanical Keyboard |
Software | Windows 10 |
This would be my first ever try in making a video card review, so bear with me.
AFAIK, there aren't any reviews on this particular card yet. It is similar to the reference yes, except for two key differences: 1. the cooler is similar to the cooler of the GTX 560 Ti and 2. the outputs in the rear are two DVI, one HDMI and one DisplayPort.
Check the Inno3D website however, and no mention or picture of such a card is there, i.e. they are not differentiating this "reference" card from the previous version (which is what you see in the GTX 570 page of the Inno3D website).
EVGA has a similar card, which they differentiate in name as the GTX 570 HD.
TEST SETUP
MSI P67A-GD65 (LGA 1155)
Intel Core i7 2600 @ 3.4GHz
Kingston 2x4GB (1333MHz) DDR3 RAM @9-9-9-24
Coolermaster eXtreme Power Plus 600W
270.61 WHQL Drivers
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit with Service Pack 1
THE CARD
The box:
If you squint a bit, you can see the price. 16,600 pesos (or around $386). It's a bit cheaper than HD 6970 2GB's over here, whose prices range from 16,800 to 17,000 pesos ($390-$395). And this wasn't even the cheapest GTX 570 here.
This is how it looks like:
The card requires 2 6-pin connectors, as you can see here:
The bundle is quite good. I'm using the Mouse Mat right now (my A4Tech mouse is hardly a "gaming mouse" though), while I was able to get the 3DMARK 11 Advanced Edition earlier too.
OpenCL is weirdly unchecked after I updated drivers.
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Unigine Sanctuary v2.3 - DirectX 11
Settings:
Results:
Unigine Tropics v1.3 - DirectX 11
Settings:
Results:
Unigine Heaven v2.5 - DirectX 11
Settings:
Results:
Kombustor - DirectX 11
Settings:
Results:
3DMARK 11 Advanced Edition - DirectX 11
Settings:
Results:
AVP: Aliens vs. Predator Benchmark - DirectX 11
Settings:
Resolution - 1920x1080
Texture Quality - Very High
Shadow Quality - High
Anisotropic Filtering - 16
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion - On
DX11 Tessellation - On
DX11 Advanced shadow sampling - On
DX11 MSAA Samples: 4x
Results:
NBA 2K11 - DirectX 9
Settings:
Resolution - 1920x1080
Anti-Aliasing - 8x MSAA
Anti-Aliasing Quality - 3
Arena - High
Player - High
Crowd Detail - High
Sideline Characters - On
Texture Quality - High
Depth of Field - On
Floor Reflection - On
Through NVIDIA Control Panel:
Anisotropic Filtering - 16
Enhance Anti-Aliasing Setting - 32x
Anti-Aliasing Transparency - 8x (supersample)
Texture Filtering - High Quality
Results:
FIFA 11 - DirectX 9
Settings:
Resolution - 1920x1080
Rendering Quality - High
Anti-Aliasing - 4x MSAA
Through NVIDIA Control Panel:
Anisotropic Filtering - 16
Enhance Anti-Aliasing Setting - 32x
Anti-Aliasing Transparency - 8x (supersample)
Texture Filtering - High Quality
Results:
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------------------------OVERCLOCKING---------------------------
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That's an 11.5% core overclock and 9% memory overclock.
Unigine Sanctuary v2.3 - DirectX 11
Results:
Overclocked 8% better than stock in average FPS
Unigine Heaven v2.5 - DirectX 11
Results:
Overclocked 9% better than stock in average FPS
3DMARK 11 Advanced Edition - DirectX 11
Results:
Overclocked 4% better than stock in average FPS
AVP: Aliens vs. Predator Benchmark - DirectX 11
Results:
Overclocked 10% better than stock in average FPS
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----------------------------SUMMARY------------------------------
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Well there's not really much else to say here, other than this is a great card. Overclocking is not that great however. Yet considering that AMD's HD 6970 2GB is slightly more expensive than this card yet lagging in performance (if you check other reviews).
The cooler is not terribly loud too. Yet in my case noise is not much of a factor anyway, considering there's an even louder fan right behind me as I type this.
More on the overclocking - it's quite possible that it was a bit underwhelming because of the ambient temperatures (it's summer here, and apparently it's 30°C) or maybe just the card itself. Or perhaps even both. Regardless the gains were still good.
So that's my first "mini-review" and I hope you liked it.
AFAIK, there aren't any reviews on this particular card yet. It is similar to the reference yes, except for two key differences: 1. the cooler is similar to the cooler of the GTX 560 Ti and 2. the outputs in the rear are two DVI, one HDMI and one DisplayPort.
Check the Inno3D website however, and no mention or picture of such a card is there, i.e. they are not differentiating this "reference" card from the previous version (which is what you see in the GTX 570 page of the Inno3D website).
EVGA has a similar card, which they differentiate in name as the GTX 570 HD.
TEST SETUP
MSI P67A-GD65 (LGA 1155)
Intel Core i7 2600 @ 3.4GHz
Kingston 2x4GB (1333MHz) DDR3 RAM @9-9-9-24
Coolermaster eXtreme Power Plus 600W
270.61 WHQL Drivers
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit with Service Pack 1
THE CARD
The box:
If you squint a bit, you can see the price. 16,600 pesos (or around $386). It's a bit cheaper than HD 6970 2GB's over here, whose prices range from 16,800 to 17,000 pesos ($390-$395). And this wasn't even the cheapest GTX 570 here.
This is how it looks like:
The card requires 2 6-pin connectors, as you can see here:
The bundle is quite good. I'm using the Mouse Mat right now (my A4Tech mouse is hardly a "gaming mouse" though), while I was able to get the 3DMARK 11 Advanced Edition earlier too.
OpenCL is weirdly unchecked after I updated drivers.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------TESTING-------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Unigine Sanctuary v2.3 - DirectX 11
Settings:
Results:
Unigine Tropics v1.3 - DirectX 11
Settings:
Results:
Unigine Heaven v2.5 - DirectX 11
Settings:
Results:
Kombustor - DirectX 11
Settings:
Results:
3DMARK 11 Advanced Edition - DirectX 11
Settings:
Results:
AVP: Aliens vs. Predator Benchmark - DirectX 11
Settings:
Resolution - 1920x1080
Texture Quality - Very High
Shadow Quality - High
Anisotropic Filtering - 16
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion - On
DX11 Tessellation - On
DX11 Advanced shadow sampling - On
DX11 MSAA Samples: 4x
Results:
NBA 2K11 - DirectX 9
Settings:
Resolution - 1920x1080
Anti-Aliasing - 8x MSAA
Anti-Aliasing Quality - 3
Arena - High
Player - High
Crowd Detail - High
Sideline Characters - On
Texture Quality - High
Depth of Field - On
Floor Reflection - On
Through NVIDIA Control Panel:
Anisotropic Filtering - 16
Enhance Anti-Aliasing Setting - 32x
Anti-Aliasing Transparency - 8x (supersample)
Texture Filtering - High Quality
Results:
FIFA 11 - DirectX 9
Settings:
Resolution - 1920x1080
Rendering Quality - High
Anti-Aliasing - 4x MSAA
Through NVIDIA Control Panel:
Anisotropic Filtering - 16
Enhance Anti-Aliasing Setting - 32x
Anti-Aliasing Transparency - 8x (supersample)
Texture Filtering - High Quality
Results:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------OVERCLOCKING---------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
That's an 11.5% core overclock and 9% memory overclock.
Unigine Sanctuary v2.3 - DirectX 11
Results:
Overclocked 8% better than stock in average FPS
Unigine Heaven v2.5 - DirectX 11
Results:
Overclocked 9% better than stock in average FPS
3DMARK 11 Advanced Edition - DirectX 11
Results:
Overclocked 4% better than stock in average FPS
AVP: Aliens vs. Predator Benchmark - DirectX 11
Results:
Overclocked 10% better than stock in average FPS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------SUMMARY------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Well there's not really much else to say here, other than this is a great card. Overclocking is not that great however. Yet considering that AMD's HD 6970 2GB is slightly more expensive than this card yet lagging in performance (if you check other reviews).
The cooler is not terribly loud too. Yet in my case noise is not much of a factor anyway, considering there's an even louder fan right behind me as I type this.
More on the overclocking - it's quite possible that it was a bit underwhelming because of the ambient temperatures (it's summer here, and apparently it's 30°C) or maybe just the card itself. Or perhaps even both. Regardless the gains were still good.
So that's my first "mini-review" and I hope you liked it.
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