Gainward Phantom GTX570 Review
Introduction and Technical Specifications
Published: 17th January 2011 | Source: Gainward | Price: TBC |
Introduction
The GTX570 has been one of the big surprises of recent times, fixing all the issues of the original Fermi nVidia cards and performing incredibly well for the reasonable price charged. With a good chip you can expect to overclock it up to stock GTX580 speeds.
Unquestionably it's the card we'd recommend as the major player on the market at the moment.
Gainward have been producing graphics cards for a very long time. Indeed your authors first upgrade after the Voodoo 2 and Riva TNT days was to a Gainward model.
The most famous of the Gainward series is unquestionably the Golden Sample labelled cards which come with a good factory overclock and always managed to go further still.
Today however we have a new model from them labelled the Phantom. The surprise being that rather than concentrate on pushing the Silicon as hard as possible they've brought us a very different looking cooling solution indeed and only overclocked the GPU mildly.
Technical Specifications
A quick look at the specifications shows that the apart from the 18MHz GPU overclock the Gainward Phantom is very much a standard card.
| Product Name : | Gainward GeForce® GTX 570 1280MB "Phantom" |
| GPU : | GeForce GTX 570 |
| GPU Clockspeed : | 750 Mhz |
| Memory : | 1280MB GDDR5 (320 bits) |
| Memory Clockspeed : | 1950 Mhz |
| Pixels per clock (peak) : | N/A |
| Bandwidth : | 156 GB/s |
| Ramdac : | 400 MHz |
| Bus : | PCI-Express 2.0 |
| Cooling : | 2.5-Slot/Three Fans cooler |
| Video-Features : | HDMI |
| Connectivity : | Dual DVI-I, DisplayPort |
Of course the cooler is the real selling point of this, so let's move on and take a look at that.
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If you're going to go with two cards or more 6970, since it scales better. But for just a single card 570 all the way.
Actually what test I can find they scale about the same
You can also remove the price TBC
http://www.lambda-tek.com/componentshop/index.pl?origin=gbase17.5&prodID=B566551
unless this is a lie which it could be.
You owe me a KB by the way.. ROFLMAO!
Wouldn't necessarily trust them as they always seems to quote low to get the traffic through Google shopping searches then when you click check stock, they are 80% of the time out of stock.
Its now on scan.co.uk for £305
Ahh fair enough.. £30 premium for the cooler which isn't bad I guess if it actually helped.
Yer the gtx 570 gainward GS-GLH is more at around £320 which leads me to think that there something else making it expensive like cherry picked cores or something.
3gb 580 version looks like a beast:)
On 100% fan speed, it sounds like an hair dryer
I have one of these. It's alright, unlocking voltages can be done with the new afterburner beta.
3gb 580 version looks like a beast:)
Indeed think it with have enough memory for any screen size.
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If you're going to go with two cards or more 6970, since it scales better. But for just a single card 570 all the way.