GeForce GTX 570 Review: Hitting $349 With Nvidia's GF110

[erikstarcher]

[citation][nom]ReggieRay[/nom]I always wonder why they use the overpriced Ultimate edition of Windows? I understand the 64 bit because of memory, that is what I bought but purchased the OEM home premium and saved some cash. For games the Ultimate does no extra value to them.Or am I missing something?[/citation]
I think it's a volume license version that doesn't need to be activated. If I remember right, the enterprise version of 7 (volume licensing) is the same as the retail and OEM versions of Ultimate.

 

[rmmil978]

[citation][nom]bstm300[/nom]It would be foolish to not wait for the ATi's next round of cards considering they are due out this month and should provide more affordable alternatives to the GTX 570 and GTX 580. This is my prediction:The Radeon 6950 stock will retail for around $300 and 6970 stock will retail for about $350. Their performance will be about 10-12% less f.p.s. than their nvidia counterparts, the 570 and 580. My guess is that by mid January, Nvidia will have to shave prices on their 500's by about $25-50 to compensate for losses from the ATI cards.[/citation]

I think $300 sounds about right for the 6950, but $350 sounds a little too low for the 6970, considering the 2 GB memory and the fact that it is gunning it out with the 580...$400 or so seems about right to me. I'd LOVE it if it was $350, would shave at least $50 off the price of the 580, but I don't think it'll happen.

 

[Lutfij]

blow for blow, and still at it, all we can do is watch :/, when will we get all of the above on a particular gpu from both camps?

 

[CptTripps]

[citation][nom]falchard[/nom]nVidia is losing money on all the chips they sell right now.[/citation]

Right.... link?

 

[rohitbaran]

[citation][nom]SininStyle[/nom]Wow, no sli 460s included? Yet you include 6850s in xfire? really? *facepalm* fail[/citation]
Dude, 6850 is faster than 460. Period.

 

[bstm300]

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[bstm300]

Yeah rmmil978, you're right. My bad about my predication for the 6970's price. $400 sounds pretty spot on if it's going to have 2GB of ram.

 

[Bluescreendeath]

1. Why did they test Metro at only medium settings?
2. Where is Crysis?

 

[spellbinder2050]

I wanna see some 570 SLI Crysis benchies.

 

[wanderlustx2]

[citation][nom]thearm[/nom]Grrrr... Every time I see these benchmarks, I'm hoping Nvidia has taken the lead. They'll come back. It's alllll a cycle.[/citation]

I've stopped caring who has the lead, as long as they're competitive it's a win for me and most everyone else.

 

[Guest]

Alot of folks buying the 470 buy it for its official support with Adobe CS5 mercury optimizations, I wonder if this card is similarly supported or does it have to be hacked.

 

[kg2010]

460's in SLI vs 6850's CF, you decide which is faster
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=614&Itemid=72&limit=1&limitstart=9

460's 1GB are dropping in prices below $199, you can SLI Hawks for $320!

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The 570 will offer the 480's performance as shown in this review, nothing has been cut back, I don't know who started that rumour.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/adobe-cs5-cuda-64-bit,2770.html

Yes, you will most likely need to do the "hack", which is really a way for Premiere to recognize the card and use it, and the review above shows you how.

 

[Guest]

great news is that many of us expected a faster version hopefully good results are surprising

 

[gas_1]

So, while the GeForce GTX 570 sports two dual-link DVI outputs and a single mini-HDMI connector, it’s only able to utilize two at any given time. This limitation is perhaps the biggest reason I can’t use a GeForce card in my personal workstation, which employs three displays.

Since(as you state) this is requirment to really play the games, we need FPS data from the 6850 and 6870 with eyefinity on at 5760x1200 using the standard presets at 1920x1200 resolutions. Reliable information is almost non-existant. Is this the real deal, or just a gimic?

 

[dEAne]

GPU features 15 Shader Multiprocessors, yielding 480 CUDA cores and 60 texture units - I really wish I could see this card in action not just review but thanks tom.

 

[brendonmc]

The important battle is not between AMD and Nvidia at the moment. It seems that from a frame-rate perspective, they are both beating the game developers by a mile. With Crysis 2 not far away, it'll be interesting to see if this changes (Crysis 1 did more for the advancement of hardware than anything else in the history of gaming!). However, till there's a game that is unplayable on a single monitor setup (which there's not, even Metro), I'm sticking with my single 5850!!

 

[verbalizer]

nice job nVidia..

 

[ramx]

I agree 100% to PhantomTrooper."why is the dual-gpu 5970 in this comparison? why is the 6850 crossfire? u have two ati dual-gpu solutions, but no nvidia dual-gpu solutions. biased much?". on page 1.
I am not an NVIDIA or Intel fan.But GPU reviews at Toms is clearly biased to AMD.Not only for GPUs but for CPUs also.http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/phenom-ii-x6-1075t-phenom-ii-x4-970-phenom-ii-x2-560,2749-6.html
In this PhenomII 970 review,lower clocked Core i7 920 & i5 750 is compared instead of similarily priced i7 950 &i5 760.This is only one instance,there are many instances like here.

 

[eddieroolz]

Very positively impressed here by Nvidia. The GTX 5x0 series are quite a good buy in my opinion.

 

[tony singh]

@ramx

That is because HD5970 is priced equal to GTX 570 , but offering higher performance. Is comparing equally priced products unfair ?

 

[bstm300]

Lol Tony. You honestly think the 5970 will be anything less than $400? Don't kid yourself. It will be $400 for the stock and up to $450 for the oc'd versions.

 

[bstm300]

Don't worry Brendon, once epic releases Unreal 4 in 2012, all GPU's will bow down to in f.p.s. humility to it's epic graphical demands.

 

[verbalizer]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=gtx570&x=0&y=0

 

[Formata]

Great review! I know it's been said before... but I'd love to see SC2 in the games benchmark line up (Perhaps loose one of the FPS titles?)

 

[SevWarfare]

Great review Tom's. All I know is I got a brand new PNY GTX 470 with lifetime warranty for $200 shipped. Thank you GTX 500 series.