NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 570: Filling In The Gaps
by Ryan Smith on December 7, 2010 9:00 AM ESTDiRT 2
Codemasters’ 2009 off-road racing game continues its reign as the token racer in our benchmark suite. As the first DX11 racer, DiRT 2 makes pretty thorough use of the DX11’s tessellation abilities, not to mention still being the best looking racer we have ever seen.
DiRT 2 is another game where the GTX 570 enjoys an advantage over the GTX 480 beyond a simple difference in core clocks. Once we move up to less CPU-limited resolutions we’re looking at a 4-6% performance advantage, giving the GTX 570 a small but noticeable lead. This lead also gives it a larger than normal advantage over the GTX 470, pushing the gap to over 35%.
As for the competition, this is another title where the Radeon 5870 can’t close the gap; in fact it does a bit worse than the GTX 470. The SLI/CF cards do better here, particularly the NVIDIA cards with their better scaling under this game.
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Taft12 - Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - link
Game, set and match. It will take a long time for Anandtech to redevelop its reputation.7Enigma - Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - link
Seriously? We're still going to preach on this topic? I was one of those in disagreement with the way they handled the launch of the AMD 68XX series cards, but let it die already. This is a LAUNCH article and it deals with the design of the card and the performance of the reference card. As such it should not contain comparisons to OC'd cards.....not AMD nor NVIDIA. In a follow-up article, however, it should be compared to non-reference designs from both camps.If, when the AMD 69XX series cards come out and they include OC'd Nvidia cards, THEN you can rant and rave. But I can guarantee you there is no way they would do that after the fallout of the previous launch.
So I politely ask that you stop.
Kef71 - Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - link
Yes, seriously. Was there ever any official statement if OC cards would be used in GPU launches? I didn't see any but on the other hand anandtech has not been in my bookmark list for a while...strikeback03 - Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - link
Yes, there was, they said because of d-bag comments like yours they would ignore a sector of the market and only provide some of the possible competitors for new products.Kef71 - Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - link
If you really need to be rude, at least spell out "douchebag".slacr - Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - link
I was just wondering why there are no starcraft2 performance figures in the review.Understandably there is no "benchmark" feature implemented in the game and they are annoying and time consuming to run and of course the card can handle it. But it is the only game some of us play and the figures may help guide us to see if it's "worth it".
nitrousoxide - Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - link
It's a more CPU-bound game so it cannot perfectly reflect the difference in GPU performanceRyan Smith - Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - link
I'm still in the process of fully fleshing out our SC2 benchmark. Once the latest rendition of Bench is ready, you'll find SC2 in there.tbtbtb - Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - link
The GTX 570 is now available for pre-order on Amazon for 400$ (http://amzn.to/e89Oo2)Oxford Guy - Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - link
Where is it, especially minimum frame rate testing?While it's nice to see minimum frame rates for Crysis, it would be nice to see them for Metro as well.