GIGABYTE GTX570 1280MB 'Super Overclock' Edition Review

👤by Richard Weatherstone Comments 📅01-08-11
Features
At Vortez we pride ourselves in bringing you a complete and thorough review of any product we assess. While other sites skim over this area we feel that reviewing a graphics card of this nature without giving you a complete run down of its feature set would be criminal.


GIGABYTE Super Overclock Series
• Powered by NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 GPU
• Integrated with industry's best 1280 MB GDDR5 memory and 320-bit memory interface
• Features Dual link DVI-I*2 / mini HDMI with HDCP protection
• GIGABYTE GTX 570 SuperOverclock edition
• GIGABYTE WindForce™ 3X cooling design
• Support NVIDIA 3D Vision™and SLI technologies
• Minimum 650W or greater system power supply with one 8-pin and 6-pin external power connectors


Super Overclock Series™
•Serious gamers require serious gear. That’s why we’ve developed the Super Overclock Series. All of the GPUs in these graphics cards have been cherry-picked for top performance, efficiency and reliability. Our innovative GPU Gauntlet™ Sorting selection process ensures that only the highest-performing GPU processors are used in these graphics cards. Coupled with our Ultra Durable VGA boards, users can rest assured that the Super Overclock Series graphics cards won’t let them down as they step onto the digital battleground.

Ultra Durable VGA+
•Gigabyte Ultra Durable VGA+ deliver 1.6X purer power than traditional power design and more stable performance.
•Proadlizer added
•2 oz Copper PCB
•Tier 1 Samsung and Hynix Memory
•Japanese Solid Capacitors
•Ferrite Core and Metal Chokes

GPU Gauntlet™ Sorting
•World’s #1 GPU cherry-picking process Only the strongest processors survive the GPU Gauntlet. GIGABYTE’s database analysis system evaluates the GPU core engine, shader engine. The GPUs with the best power efficiency and lowest power consumption are qualified for the Super Overclock Series. So the question remains…will your graphics card make it through the Gauntlet?

OC GURU
GIGABYTE OC Guru utility is a revolutionary software that features Power saving, Overclocking, Gamer OSD and User-friendly inter design.
Features & Benefits
•World's 1st VGA Power Saving software utility
•VGA Tweaking Utility Providing the best combination of software and hardware Overclocking
•Extremely Overclocking ability-- GPU and Memory Voltage Adjusting Software

WindForce 3X - Vapor chamber-Outward Inclined
•WINDFORCE™ 3X 3D-inclined fin design is GIGABYTE’s first generation triple-fan solution. It features 3 ultra quiet PWM fans, three copper heat pipes and a unique vapor chamber to strengthen the speed of heat dissipation.



The image above demonstrates this cooler in greater detail showing how it disipates heat from the source. As we will see later in the review, this card has an adapted cooler which is split into two subsections and linked by heatpipes. Unfortunately, coolers such as this vent the hot air back into the case so a case with good airflow will reap the best results by exhausting the hot air expelled by the GIGABYTE GTX570 SOC as the WindForce cooler does not vent hot air directly outside of the case unlike stock designs. It is however a necesary evil if you want cooling performance and silence.

If you have missed our previous reviews, here’s a brief rundown on what every NVIDIA GTX570 offers:

3D Graphics
•Full Microsoft® DirectX® 11 Shader Model 5.0 support: o NVIDIA PolyMorph Engine with distributed HW tessellation engines
•BC6H and BC7 texture compression formats
•Gather4 extensions
•OpenGL 4.1 support
•Advanced image quality features: o 32× coverage sample antialiasing
•Transparent multisampling and transparent supersampling
•16× angle independent anisotropic filtering
•128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting with antialiasing; 32-bit per-component floating point texture filtering and blending
•Interactive ray tracing support
•Full-speed frame buffer blending
•Full-speed FP16 texture filtering
•Advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture, and zdata
•Support for normal map compression
•Adaptive z-cull
•Early-Z

GPU Computing
•NVIDIA CUDA™ technology—allows the GPU cores to provide performance improvements for applications such as video transcoding, gaming, ray tracing, and physics. API support includes: o CUDA C
•CUDA C++
•DirectCompute 5.0
•OpenCL
•Java, Python, and Fortran
•Third Generation Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) o 32 CUDA cores per SM
•Dual Warp Scheduler simultaneously schedules and dispatches instructions from two independent warps
•64 KB of RAM with a configurable partitioning of shared memory and L1 cache
•Second Generation Parallel Thread Execution ISA o Unified Address Space with Full C++ Support
•Optimized for OpenCL and DirectCompute
•Full IEEE 754-2008 32-bit and 64-bit precision
•Full 32-bit integer path with 64-bit extensions
•Memory access instructions to support transition to 64-bit addressing
•Improved Performance through Predication
•Improved Memory Subsystem o NVIDIA Parallel DataCacheTM hierarchy with Configurable L1 and Unified L2 Caches
•Greatly improved atomic memory operation performance
•NVIDIA GigaThreadTM Engine o 10x faster application context switching
•Concurrent kernel execution
•Out of order thread block execution

Nvidia Technology
•NVIDIA SLI® technology—patented hardware and software technology allows up to four NVIDIA GeForce GPUs to run in parallel to scale performance and enhance image quality on today’s top games.
•NVIDIA PhysX™ technology—allows advanced physics effects to be simulated and rendered on the GPU.
•NVIDIA 3D Vision™ Ready— GeForce GPU support for NVIDIA 3D Vision, bringing a fully immersive stereoscopic 3D experience to the PC.
•NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround™ Ready—scale games across 3 panels by leveraging the power of multiple GPUs in an NVIDIA SLI configuration. Combine with 3D Vision technology for the ultimate 3 panel stereoscopic 3D gaming experience.

Advanced Display Functionality
•Two pipelines for dual independent display
•Two dual-link DVI outputs for digital flat panel display resolutions up to 2560×1600
•Dual integrated 400 MHz RAMDACs for analog display resolutions up to and including 2048×1536 at 85 Hz
•HDMI 1.4a support including GPU accelerated Blu-ray 3D support, x.v.Color, HDMI Deep Color, and 7.1 digital surround sound. See www.nvidia.com/3dtv for more details.
•DisplayPort 1.1a support
•HDCP support up to 2560×1600 resolution on all digital outputs
•10-bit internal display processing, including support for 10-bit scan out
•Underscan/overscan compensation and hardware scaling

Video
• NVIDIA® Pure Video® HD technology with VP4 programmable video processor
•Decode acceleration for MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile, H.264, MVC, VC1, DivX (version 3.11 and later), and Flash (10.1 and later)
•Blu-ray dual-stream hardware acceleration (supporting HD picture-in-picture playback)
•Advanced spatial-temporal de-interlacing
•Noise reduction
•Edge enhancement
•Bad edit correction
•Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
•High-quality scaling
•Motion Compensation
•Video color correction
•Dynamic contrast enhancement and color stretch

Digital Audio
•Support for the following audio modes: o Dolby Digital (AC3), DTS 5.1, Multi-channel (7.1) LPCM, Dolby Digital Plus (DD+), MPEG2/MPEG4 AAC
•Data rates of 44.1 KHz, 48 KHz, 88.2 KHz, 96 KHz, 176 KHz, and 192 KHz
•Word sizes of 16bit, 20bit, and 24bit

Power Management Technology
•Advanced power and thermal management for optimal acoustics, power, and performance based on usage:
•ASPM power management
•Adaptive Clocking
•Adaptive Power States
•Advanced fan control
•Power and temperature monitoring

Let's take a look at the packaging and contents...


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