NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 570: Filling In The Gaps
by Ryan Smith on December 7, 2010 9:00 AM ESTWolfenstein
Finally among our benchmark suite we have Wolfenstein, the most recent game to be released using the id Software Tech 4 engine. All things considered it’s not a very graphically intensive game, but at this point it’s the most recent OpenGL title available. It’s more than likely the entire OpenGL landscape will be thrown upside-down once id releases Rage next year.
At lower resolutions Wolfenstein is CPU limited, and even 1920 isn’t too far off from this with our latest crop of cards. With this in mind, the GTX 570 finds itself on par with the GTX 480, while against the GTX 470 it enjoys a 25% lead.
Conversely AMD’s strong OpenGL performance undermines what little lead NVIDIA would have. At 1920 the GTX 570’s lead over the 5870 is only 7%, though this is largely an academic difference since even the 5870 gets more than 60fps at 2560.
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kanthu - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link
Ryan Smith from his conclusion"As with the GTX 580 we’d pick the simplicity of a single-GPU setup over the potential performance advantages of a multi-GPU setup, but this is as always a personal decision."
Going with dual GPUs (specifically nvidia) has it advantages. You get to experience nvidia 3D surround. Yeah I know the additional costs the additional monitors etc that this entails. If GTX 460 1GB SLI can bring so much to the table, I can only imagine what the GTX 560 1 GB SLI can do when it comes.
I only wish the development on the display side catches up with the development on the GPU side (now that AMD has only jumped on the 3D bandwagon).
owbert - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link
Anandtech, thank you for including a F@H benchmark.Thumbs for the continuous great work.
Shala3 - Sunday, December 19, 2010 - link
Anand:In this sentence
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The GTX 570 is fast enough to justify its position and the high-end card price premium, but at $100 over the GTX 470 and Radeon HD 5870 you’re paying a lot for that additional 20-25% in performance.
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did u mean a performance difference detween 5870 & 5870 is 25% ???
szore - Monday, April 25, 2011 - link
I bought my BFG GTX 570 a few weeks ago and I am thrilled with it.