NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 570: Filling In The Gaps
by Ryan Smith on December 7, 2010 9:00 AM ESTBattlefield: Bad Company 2
The latest game in the Battlefield series - Bad Company 2 – remains as one of the cornerstone DX11 games in our benchmark suite. As BC2 doesn’t have a built-in benchmark or recording mode, here we take a FRAPS run of the jeep chase in the first act, which as an on-rails portion of the game provides very consistent results and a spectacle of explosions, trees, and more.
Bad Company 2 is another game where the GTX 570 takes a notable lead over the GTX 480, and is clearly exceeding the theoretical clockspeed advantages of the GTX 570 and drifting in to architectural optimizations. Unfortunately this advantage for the GTX 570 plays out best at lower resolutions, resulting in the gap disappearing by the time we hit 2560. Even at 1920 the advantage is barely worth mentioning, meaning we’re once more at parity with the GTX 480.
Perhaps it would have been better for NVIDIA if that advantage had held, because it means the Radeon 5870 gets uncomfortably close at higher resolutions. Negligible at 2560, the GTX 570 advantage is only 10% at 1920. AMD’s strong CF scaling also puts NVIDIA in a tough position here, as the 6850 CF is a whopping 32% faster than the GTX 570 when it comes to Bad Company 2.
NVIDIA does manage to turn the tables with our Waterfall benchmark however, which serves as a proxy for minimum framerates. The GTX 570 is still tied with the GTX 480 here, but it’s also now at parity with the 6850CF and over 50% faster than the 5870, easily demonstrating that if you’re worried more about minimums than averages in Bad Company 2 that the 5870 and GTX 570 aren’t nearly as close as they were at first glance. Extra RAM would probably be of great benefit to AMD here.
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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.