ASUS GeForce GTX 570

, on Dec 7th, 2010, in Graphics Cards. Manufacturer: ASUS

GTX 570 Review Introduction

Last month, NVIDIA made an impactful product launch, the GeForce GTX 580, which shook the GPU world and tilted performance leadership and performance per Watt figures back in favor of NVIDIA. Such was its impact that it may have caused its competitor to delay upcoming product launches to probably rework them up. Not very far from the launch of those products, NVIDIA launched its second GPU in the GeForce 500 series, the GeForce GTX 570. As the name would suggest, this is the "value" SKU based on the GF110 GPU, while the GTX 580 leads with all components of the GPU enabled.

Reviewed today, the GeForce GTX 570 is GF110 with one streaming multiprocessor (SM) disabled, yielding 480 CUDA cores (same number as that of the GTX 480 from the previous generation), but with a 320-bit GDDR5 memory interface, connecting to 1280 MB of memory. The ROP as a result is 40. Thanks to the improved power efficiency, NVIDIA was able to up clock speeds over the previous generation without having to worry about rising TDP. The core is clocked at 732 MHz (higher than that of GTX 480), CUDA cores at 1464 MHz (again, higher than that of GTX 480, translating into higher shader compute power), and 950 MHz (3800 MHz GDDR5 effective) memory, yielding 152 GB/s of memory bandwidth. To top it off, the board power is rated at 219W, and power is drawn in from two 6-pin power connectors.

	GeForce GTX 460	GeForce GTX 460	Radeon HD 6850	Radeon HD 5850	GeForce GTX 470	Radeon HD 6870	Radeon HD 5870	GeForce GTX 570	ASUS GeForce GTX 570	GeForce GTX 480	GeForce GTX 580	Radeon HD 5970
Shader units	336	336	960	1440	448	1120	1600	480	480	480	512	2x 1600
ROPs	24	32	32	32	40	32	32	40	40	48	48	2x 32
GPU	GF104	GF104	Barts	Cypress	GF100	Barts	Cypress	GF110	GF110	GF100	GF110	2x Cypress
Transistors	1950M	1950M	1700M	2154M	3200M	1700M	2154M	3000M	3000M	3200M	3000M	2x 2154M
Memory Size	768 MB	1024 MB	1024 MB	1024 MB	1280 MB	1024 MB	1024 MB	1280 MB	1280 MB	1536 MB	1536 MB	2x 1024 MB
Memory Bus Width	192 bit	256 bit	256 bit	256 bit	320 bit	256 bit	256 bit	320 bit	320 bit	384 bit	384 bit	2x 256 bit
Core Clock	675 MHz	675 MHz	775 MHz	725 MHz	607 MHz	900 MHz	850 MHz	732 MHz	742 MHz	700 MHz	772 MHz	725 MHz
Memory Clock	900 MHz	900 MHz	1000 MHz	1000 MHz	837 MHz	1050 MHz	1200 MHz	950 MHz	950 MHz	924 MHz	1002 MHz	1000 MHz
Price	$160	$200	$180	$260	$260	$240	$360	$330	$330	$450	$500	$580