oh I got it okay today we're going to be doing a length comparison between the
GTX 570 and the GTX 580 so I have two
MSI cards here and I'm going to show you how they compare in terms of length well
audience first of all why don't we have a look at the allnew GTX 570 and we will
discover that it is 10 and5 in long and
then we will look at the GTX 580 to discover that it is 10 and 1/2 in long
so this reveals something very interesting about the GTX 570 and that
is that it actually uses exactly the same cooler almost I I I noticed one
small difference between the coolers check this out guys okay so this is the
570 see how the aluminum fin comes up a little bit closer to the vent compared
to the GTX 580 I don't even know if you guys can see that here I'll give you
sort of a better perspective on it can you can you tell in the camera okay it's
hard to tell in the camera but they do both use a vapor chamber cooler however
it looks like the positioning of the fins or maybe the number of fins is
slightly different so there there's a
bit of intrigue for you all right other than that we have a two six pin versus a
six pin and an 8 Pin PCIe power connector and then you're going to find
more differences on the back because even though they use here look at it
this way even though they use the same PCB there's actually fewer things
soldered to the GTX 5 70 PCB so you can
see where the RAM chips are installed there's all kinds of little components
soldered onto the back of the RAM chip so the GTX 570 which is here has that
but not here so there's actually blank spots where they could have potentially
installed more RAM chips used a higher bin GPU one that has more active
functional units and that would be a 580 pretty much as long as they put an 8 Pin
power connector on it so they're very very similar cards basic basically
you've just got lower memory bandwidth on the 570 less overall memory and then
you've got a slightly cut down or lower Bend GPU and if you're not sure what I
mean by Bend or binning you should check out the NC Tech tips episode where we
explained the process of binning and how that works in the electronics Industry