Review NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570: All the Features for Less

Testing Platform

We used the following hardware combination in our test. Other graphics cards were also included for comparison purposes.

• Processor : Intel Core i7 930 @4 GHz (200×20)
• Motherboard : Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
• Graphics card : NVIDIA GTX 570; NVIDIA GTX 580; NVIDIA GTX 470; NVIDIA GTX 480; AMD Radeon HD 5970; AMD Radeon HD 6850; AMD Radeon HD 6870;
• Memory : 3×1GB Kingston KHX16000D3T1K3/3GX
• Storage : Western Digital Caviar Black 500 GB (32 MB Cache)
• Power Supply : Enermax Revolution 85+ 1050 Watt
• Heatsink : Gelid Tranquilo
• Monitor : Philips 221E
• Input : Genius (Keyboard and Mouse)
• OS : Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
• Driver : Forceware 262.99; ForceWare 263.09; Catalyst 10.10c; Catalyst 10.11

Test Results

Game Test

Alien VS Predator

Setting : 1920×1080; DirectX 11; Texture Quality-Very High; Shadow Quality-High; SSAO-On; AF x16; No-MSAA

Here, the GTX 570 gets ahead of the GTX 480 by 2 FPS. There’s a 9 FPS gap between the GTX 570 and its more powerful sibling, the GTX 580.

Metro 2033

Setting : DirectX 11; Advance DOF, No-Advance PhysX, MSAA x4, AF x16

This extraordinarily heavy game puts the weight on all cards in our test. The gap between GTX 570 and the GTX 580 was kept at a very narrow 0,5 FPS.

Batman Arkham Asylum

Setting : 1920×1080; No-AA; Maximum Quality

With PhysX turned on and set to “high”, GTX 570 secured a 2 FPS lead over the GTX 480.

Lost Planet 2

Setting : 1920×1080; DirectX 9; DirectX 11; Motion Blur-On; Shadow Detail-High; Texture Detail-High; Rendering Level-High

Again, the GTX 570 scored a slight lead over the GTX 480.