| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Video Card Performance |  |
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| Written by Olin Coles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tuesday, 07 December 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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DX11: Unigine Heaven 2.1The Unigine Heaven 2.1 benchmark is a free publicly available tool that grants the power to unleash the graphics capabilities in DirectX-11 for Windows 7 or updated Vista Operating Systems. It reveals the enchanting magic of floating islands with a tiny village hidden in the cloudy skies. With the interactive mode, emerging experience of exploring the intricate world is within reach. Through its advanced renderer, Unigine is one of the first to set precedence in showcasing the art assets with tessellation, bringing compelling visual finesse, utilizing the technology to the full extend and exhibiting the possibilities of enriching 3D gaming. The distinguishing feature in the Unigine Heaven benchmark is a hardware tessellation that is a scalable technology aimed for automatic subdivision of polygons into smaller and finer pieces, so that developers can gain a more detailed look of their games almost free of charge in terms of performance. Thanks to this procedure, the elaboration of the rendered image finally approaches the boundary of veridical visual perception: the virtual reality transcends conjured by your hand. Although Heaven-2.1 was recently released and used for our DirectX-11 tests, the benchmark results were extremely close to those obtained with Heaven-1.0 testing. Since only DX11-compliant video cards will properly test on the Heaven benchmark, only those products that meet the requirements have been included.
Heaven 2.1 Moderate Quality Settings
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Comments
i didnt thought 152hp machine can beat 177hp.... but yea it matches it and so much price difference...
totally stunning card compared to older price/perfor ratios by Nvidia...
i was going for GTX 580 but now i gotta think 170$ extra for 6fps in heavy games...
Finally i gotta again wait for price downs on GTX 580 ... or i will go for GTX 570 which is sweet deal !!
Thanks for the article!
Anyway good job once again.
Lookin like a great card btw. First time in years that i'm looking to buy a nvidia card instead of an ati. I sent thermaltake a mail to see wether the awesome coolingapparatice ISGC-V320 will fit (believe me it's a great cooler, but has to be supported some way because of the enormous weight).
GTX 460 - 47.5 FPS
HD 6870 - 55.7 FPS
HD 5870 - 65.9 FPS
The temperature difference still has me a little baffled. The cooling solution is the same, and the test methodology was identical. Yet, somehow, the GeForce GTX 570 sample I received heats up more than both the GTX 580 I have.
If I hadn't retested three different times, I would still think there was something amiss. It is what it is.
Running Adobe apps / premiere pro MPE temps are about 55 degrees.
How can the 480 have an absolute max temp of 82C? I've seen this card go to 95 - 100 easily, having both the 480 and the 570 at the same max temp is baffling.
I searched for overclocking maximum results and not surprisingly the fastest 470 results clocked about 900+ (air, stock cooling) MHz - just the 570 results I found so far. With my lame mind (as I'm not an insider in the hw industry) I think that the ~900 is a limit that is nvidia made (with their 'protection'), not the limit that comes from the 40nm manufacturing process. And this things clearly show that the 570's higher clocks doesn't come from the more refined manufacturing (as older gen CPUs got more overclockable when their newer revisions came out) just from marketing strategy. Like you design a Porsche GT3, but first you sell a version to the public which is limited just a bit higher than the Boxter's (and call it Boxter2). Then playing that you worked hard (but did nothing), you limit the product less, say 911 Turbo. But literally the same product.
I will wait for 1: when the prices starting to drop; 2: the next gen.