The Test

Due to a last-minute fiasco with our second GTX 570, we’ll only be looking at single-GPU performance today. We’ll update our article with GTX 570 SLI performance as soon as we have a replacement card.

The launch drivers for the GTX 570 are 263.09; the performance is identical to the 262.99 launch drivers used for the GTX 580 last month. Meanwhile on the AMD side we’re using Catalyst 10.10e – which in spite of the name are a newer revision than 10.11.

Finally, all tests were done with the default driver settings unless otherwise noted.

CPU: Intel Core i7-920 @ 3.33GHz
Motherboard: Asus Rampage II Extreme
Chipset Drivers: Intel 9.1.1.1015 (Intel)
Hard Disk: OCZ Summit (120GB)
Memory: Patriot Viper DDR3-1333 3 x 2GB (7-7-7-20)
Video Cards: AMD Radeon HD 6870
AMD Radeon HD 6850
AMD Radeon HD 5970
AMD Radeon HD 5870
AMD Radeon HD 5850
AMD Radeon HD 5770
AMD Radeon HD 4870
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
Video Drivers: NVIDIA ForceWare 262.99
NVIDIA ForceWare 263.09
AMD Catalyst 10.10e
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
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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 performance
  • Ryan 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.

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