Review NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570: All the Features for Less

Graphics Card

This is our reference GTX 570 sample, handed over straight from NVIDIA. The cooler has glossy black surface with green lines pattern, giving it some elegant looks.

A blower fan, similar to the one used on GTX 580, sits on the rear end of the graphics card.

Like most other high-end cards, GTX 570’s dual-slot cooler exhausts hot air through a ventilation grill located on the backplate, just above the display connectors.

Display output selection consists of two dual-link DVI connectors and one mini-HDMI port.

We found some ventilation holes along the sides of the cooler, most notably on the rear side, near the blower fan.

Power is supplied through a pair of 6-pin PCI Express connectors. This indicates that the card consumes less power compared to its higher end sibling, the GTX 580, which requires an 8-pin connector in addition to one 6-pin connector,

NVIDIA’s high end offerings usually come with up to 3-way or 4-way SLI support, the GTX 570 is no exception. The two SLI connectors on the top side can be used to connect this card to identical pairs for multi-graphics processing.

The PCB layout as seen from the back. Apparently, unlike the terribly hot GTX 480, neither the GTX 570 nor its bigger brother the GTX 580 needs an extra ventilation hole on the PCB board.

If you’ve read our previous article on the GTX 580, you will notice that the GTX 570 looks very much similar to that higher-end GF110 derivative. We disassembled the cooler to see if there’s anything different under it.