Is the newly released GTX580 a bit too steep for your wallet? Today we take a look at the GTX570 to see if it can keep up the performance of its sibling.

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Now look what you have gone and done. You have made me reach for my wallet....

i think i am in love lol

Fits right where we expected. I would have liked to have seen 470 results in there as well because I am sure a lot of people will be trying to decide between the lower priced 470 and the new-kid-on-the-block 570. Nice review though. I hope nVidia can keep on this path of winning cards for awhile. It will be interesting to see what AMD fires back with at the $350 price range.

How early did you get 3DMark 11?

Tom what would you recon is best, a 580 gtx overclocked or 2x MSI 460 GTX Hawk overclocked?

And will you do a review of the MSI 460 GTX Hawk?

I saw the AMD 1100T review and thought to myself, the 570 review is bigger news, is Tom on crack?

Great review again.

No point to do a 460 GTX Hawk review, its a great card, its got a better cooler than reference and arguably can handle over voltage without issue. Honestly, I'd go and pick up a 570 before I dropped money on a 2x GTX 460 Hawk configuration.

Guess ill just pick up a single 580 then rather than 2x 460, just figured that overclocked 2x 460s would do near identical preformance for a 100£ less.

But i guess that was wishful thinking

We havnt really tested a 470 and the fact it kills a 480 should be enough for you to use your noggin.

Had 3d11 for the first launch before we were asked to stay quiet for the 'patch'

looking on HWbot it needs another patch for SLI scaling so i also need to sort that out later?

This should help

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/12/02/geforce_gtx_580_vs_460_1gb_sli/3

Oh, I most certainly can use my noggin, occasionally . It wasn't for us regulars here, but I can see the threads already, "What's better, 570 or 470?" It also helps people to decide if the extra performance justifies the extra premium or not.

You do way too good of a job at keeping quiet. I'd be bursting at the seams keeping quiet with all these NDAs . Or at least be as giddy as a schoolgirl.

Ah thanks, seems i've missunderstood how SLI works, this speaks of the advantage the 580 has because of its greater memory, i thought the two cards would just share the total of 2gb ram, and by that do better than a single card just having 1.5gb

Trust me to be busy

What a card eh? Good to see though that the temps are the same as mine, though mine probably makes three times the noise

Thanks as ever for the review Thomas, top stuff

ED. OCUK have these in stock now, though only the EVGA @ £309.99.

Gotta say tho, EVGA's best looking sticker yet

Also. 3DM11.. OMG, getting now. That deep sea thing looks ufking amazing !

£294 at scan

hmm as i have no gpu so unless i win them 460's this is were my money shall be going

People are already ranting that the 6870 is a better buy than the 570. IS there a 100 dollar difference?

Let people rant imho, this walks over a 6870, the ATI equiv we hope will be the 6950.

im tempted to sell up for one of these!

wouldent sli 460s beat it?

im wanting to upgrade cards gettin bored of my hardware! would want to run 3 of them in time

if you can seel all ur 460's and be able to aford three 570's then i would say go for it fella

i wont be running them as tri sli, basically 3 of them for folding purposes! and gamin even tho dunno how they fold wasnt in the review

cause those new 6800's are really heavy

yer i assumed you would be folding lol.

if it can be done then do it mate

yeah too right i think i might wait off on my first one till the non reference ones come out with voltage tweaking

Right about the same I would imagine.

A single 470 can score around the 20k mark in Vantage on performance (the regular setting at the beginning). A 460 scores around 16k IIRC. SLI gives you about 70% speed boost so let's guess at the 30k mark tops. A 570 seems to do a good job of that. And, when you consider that a pair of 460s is slightly faster than a stock 480, and that a 570 is slightly faster than a stock 480..

Seems about balanced to me. However, you have one card, cooler, pulling less power and putting out the same results. It's about chuffing time Nvidia gave THAT kind of performance to price on a single card. Cos up until THIS card they were out pricing all of their single cards with SLI lmao.

For example. A pair of 450s poos on a 470. A pair of 460s poos on a 480. A pair of either is considerably cheaper and cooler than the big boys.

Mind you, ATI were doing it too

Bloody silly billies

I cant wait for next week, going to be awesome with the hopeful renewal of the price wars for Christmas shopping!

Going to have to sell my 460 Hawk

u can get 30-31k with 768 460's 1gb's do a decent bit more

Seems about perfectly matched then really. So, no point at all in switching unless -

You want less noise and power consumption.

You intend on using more than one to get more PPD out of less slots. Or, more PPD out of the same ammount of slots.

Personally bro I wouldn't bother. At least not for now

You absolutely and utterly will not get one of these on the cheap. They are the newest technology and the price will not drop.

What is likely to happen is that we will see a repeat of ATI's chrimbo bo**ocks and they will sell out til March and then go up in price

Since I swapped out my 8800GTS for the HD4890 I've had no reason to go back to nvidia. Is this my reason.

O gotta pay the bank a visit. time for a new system

Just picked up one for £240. Now that's a good deal.

where?

Am I allowed to post things like that on this site? The rules say "no promotion of other websites allowed", so I want to check first.

think that means promotion of other hardware review sites

Oh, OK. In that case, I got it from Dabs. It's £260 there, but if you pay through Quidco you get a £10 off voucher (valid until the end of Sunday), which brings it down to £250. In addition, paying this way earns you 4% cashback, which knocks around another tenner off the price, albeit you won't be refunded the cashback instantly. But in any case, you're essentially paying only £240 for the card.

nice makes the card even more tempting!

agreed lol

Stocks are low though. I predict supply of this card will be as poor as the 580 for the short-term - but I'm just speculating.

looks at his 3 460's and they are shaking at gettin replaced so soon ha ha

read the other day the UK got 3000 of these bad boys in so hopefully stock will last around the UK but at £240 doubt it will last at dabs lol

Hmm, takes the price-performance crown off the 460 SLI? I don't think so.

I see some very nice F@H numbers coming

I´m picking up my second GTX470 tomorrow or saturday...

yeah ever since i heard there numbers are going to start to get humped more and more over time i want to upgrade them to better ones, less points overall but better cards in time that will last longer

SLI review please

Folding numbers or still NO time as with the GTX580 ?

NVM this will do,

Does anyone when the gainward gtx 570 gs-glh is coming out ?

You guys are more experienced folders than I am, but would you say, ignoring the model numbers for a minute, that the folding performance is proportional to the number of cores each of these has ?

i.e. the folding performance is the same X core numbers ?