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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 - Built with GTX 580 DNA

By Kenny Yeo - 7 Dec 2010

Temperature, Power Consumption & Overclocking

Temperature

NVIDIA’s custom vapor chamber cooling was very quiet and pretty efficient, keeping the GeForce GTX 570 running at a manageable 74 degrees Celsius. Palit’s custom designed dual-fan cooler was even more effective, keeping the card at 69 degrees Celsius when taxed. However, it’s also considerably more noisy, emitting a low pitch whirring noise that was quite audible.

 

 

Power Consumption

The GeForce GTX 570 is markedly more power efficient compared to the old GeForce GTX 480. Not only are idle power readings improved, power draw at load has also been greatly reduced. NVIDIA has effectively given the GeForce GTX 570 greater performance per watt than what the GTX 480 could deliver.

The Palit card, on the other hand, recorded significantly higher readings, which is understandable given its overclocked status.

 

 

Overclocking

With the reference card, we managed to push get it up to only 810MHz at the core but couldn’t get the memory to run any faster. This gave us 11947 3DMarks, which represented a healthy improvement of 7%.

As for the Palit card, we managed to get it running at a more respectable 870MHz at the core, and again, we couldn’t get the memory to run any faster. This gave us 12763 3DMarks, an improvement of 6%. 

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