NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 570: Filling In The Gaps
by Ryan Smith on December 7, 2010 9:00 AM ESTMass Effect 2
Electronic Arts’ space-faring RPG is our Unreal Engine 3 game. While it doesn’t have a built in benchmark, it does let us force anti-aliasing through driver control panels, giving us a better idea of UE3’s performance at higher quality settings. Since we can’t use a recording/benchmark in ME2, we use FRAPS to record a short run.
Coming from our past games, Mass Effect 2 throws us a bit of a curveball as it’s the only other game where the GTX 570 has any kind of remarkable disadvantage compared to the GTX 480; albeit tiny, the GTX 570 trails the GTX 480 by around 4% here. This is also one of the smaller advantages for the GTX 570 over the GTX 470, showing a smaller 17% gain. From what we’re seeing with the GTX 500 series, it looks to be the game in our suite most likely to be memory bandwidth bottlenecked.
With that memory bottleneck the GTX 570 doesn’t have a chance to run too far ahead of its AMD competition. At 1920 the performance advantage over the 5870 is only 13%, and of course the SLI/CF cards do quite well here by over 35%.
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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.