NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 570: Filling In The Gaps
by Ryan Smith on December 7, 2010 9:00 AM ESTMetro 2033
The next game on our list is 4A Games’ Metro 2033, their tunnel shooter released earlier this year. In September the game finally received a major patch resolving some outstanding image quality issues with the game, finally making it suitable for use in our benchmark suite. At the same time a dedicated benchmark mode was added to the game, giving us the ability to reliably benchmark much more stressful situations than we could with FRAPS. If Crysis is a tropical GPU killer, then Metro would be its underground counterpart.
While Metro was an outstanding game for the GTX 580 to show off its performance advantage, the situation is quite different for the GTX 570. Here it once again fulfills its role as a GTX 480 replacement, but it’s far more mortal when it comes to being compared to other cards. The higher the resolution the closer the 5870 and GTX 570 are, with this being only a 10% lead for the GTX 570 at 1920. However the SLI/CF cards are in a similar situation, and only pull ahead of the GTX 570 by around 10%.
As for the GTX 470, the GTX 570 is once again 25% faster at 1920, a reasonable outcome for this shader-heavy 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.