NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 570: Filling In The Gaps
by Ryan Smith on December 7, 2010 9:00 AM ESTHAWX
Ubisoft’s 2008 aerial action game is one of the less demanding games in our benchmark suite, particularly for the latest generation of cards. However it’s fairly unique in that it’s one of the few flying games of any kind that comes with a proper benchmark.
HAWX is a game NVIDIA traditionally does well at, and the GTX 570 is no exception to the rule. In fact in one of the better showings for the card, as it consistently beats the GTX 480 by 5%, a feat we believe can be attributed to GF110’s Z-cull enhancements. This also puts the GTX 470 in a particularly precarious place, since the GTX 570 is now over 30% faster, ever so slightly exceeding the maximum theoretical shader performance improvement.
Meanwhile a strong NVIDIA showing also means the Radeons aren’t nearly as threatening. The GTX 570 is 42% faster than the 5870 here, and while the SLI/CF cards top it, it’s by a much tamer 16%.
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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.