EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Graphics Card Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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So today we're going to be doing an unboxing of the EVGA GeForce GTX 570 so
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this is NVIDIA's latest edition to their
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GTX 500 series family so the first card
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with the GTX 500 series name was the GTX 580 so that was
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uh if you've followed NVIDIA's naming schemes over the last well I guess the
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last few Generations the 80 would be the highest end single GPU typically
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although we had seen a an 85 which was a
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refresh and then the 70 would be the next one down so this is basically a
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slightly a slightly cut down GTX 580 so
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here as we get this open I'll tell you some of the key differences between the
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570 and the 580 so first of all the 570 has fewer functional units that is uh
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fewer shaders uh fewer Cuda Cor
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all of that kind of stuff okay it also
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has less RAM so I'm going to show you guys the box now we're going to sort of
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talk about that for a bit it has less video memory so that's only
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1.28 GB versus the 1.5 gigs on the GTX
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580 so even though this has less video
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memory than the GTX 480 right now it
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looks like performance is quite similar power consumption is much lower and uh
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yeah it looks like obviously the price is is quite a bit lower as well we've
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got full support for NVIDIA's latest Technologies including 3D Vision
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surround physx direct X11 and SLI and
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that includes three-way SLI on this particular card let's go ahead and have
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a look at the back I think there's not much here that we don't already know
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very very similar specs overall to the GTX 580 the key differences are like I
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said before it is a little bit more cut down it's a little bit slower but it
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also comes in at a very attractive price so it comes with a poster which I'm
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going to go ahead and sort of carefully unfold here for you guys an EVGA gaming
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poster no less which is a skull with
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some like Wicked like guns or
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something okay very nice very nice touch
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to you VGA then we have a user guide
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which shows you presumably how to install it how to install your drivers
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we have a driver disc don't use this download the latest off the NVIDIA
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website as well as a powered by EVGA sticker for the front of your case next
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we have the accessories I like evga's uh
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environmentally friendly and recyclable
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packaging which you can clearly see here let's have a look at what we've got in
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terms of accessories so the first thing we have is a mini HDMI to HDMI cable in
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evga's classic shiny wrapper with EVGA
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logo on the back I haven't actually seen that with a graphics card before I've
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only really seen that in their motherboard packages so then we've got a
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dual MOX to PCIe six pin adapter another
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of the same and finally a DVI to VGA adapter
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although if you're really upgrading to a $350 graphics card today please please
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upgrade your monitor if you're still using VGA please all right next we have
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a little warning please allow the graphics card to cool for a minimum of 2
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minutes after operation before removing it from your system interesting you
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don't want to burn yourself after all all right and let's go
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ahead and take off the caution
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electrostatic sensitive devices do not open or handle except at a static free
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workstation all right and let's get this card out I've
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actually got a GTX 580 here with me for comparison so we'll be able to uh hold
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them up next to each other all right so the first thing we
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see is that the GTX 570 looks very
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similar to the 580 the overall shrouded cooler design is uh something that we've
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seen on NVIDIA cards since gee pretty much the 8800 Series where we've got a
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uh a fan at the back here so this is a pwm controlled fan and we better hold on
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pause for a minute and we've also got a little EVGA
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sticker here so I'm just going to go ahead and remove the if I can remove the
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cover on it then I'll go ahead and remove that
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there we are okay cool okay and then
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we've got a rear exhaust sort of setup so you can see there's actually no
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access to the fan whatsoever through here we can just see the uh the Shroud
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itself and then if we move around to the other side you can see that all of the
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air is being exhausted out of the case now there's a couple different design
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philosophies for video card coolers so one of them is that the video card
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because it produces a lot of heat inside the case should be cooled sort of
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adequately but we should remove as much of the heat as possible from the case
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through an exhaust vent whereas the other philosophy is that we should design sort of a more open air cooler
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that does a better job of cooling the VGA core frankly but exhausts heat
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inside the case so the air we're using to cool the video card isn't actually as
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cool so there's uh obviously evga's uh
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taken the NVIDIA reference design approach to this one using the rear
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exhaust cooler so we've got two six pin PCIe power connect up here at the top
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couple EVGA stickers then we've also got
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uh SLI headers that are compatible with both two-way so you just use a single
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header as well as three-way SLI U moving
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around to the back which we actually sort of looked at already but I'll show
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you again we have two DVI connectors One Mini HDMI please do note you can only
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use two at a time so either this one and
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this one or this one so you can't use all three at the same time to get NVIDIA
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surround going you do have to have two matching GTX 570 cards the back of the
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PCB actually looks pretty much identical to the 580 from what uh from what I can
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recall so um what we'd probably find if we took the cooler off is that even
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though there's solder points for all of this memory actually here you can
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clearly see there's components on the back here but these ones don't have
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memory chips installed on them so that's where we get the difference in RAM
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capacity between the 570 and the 580
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we've got a standard PCI Express 16x interface down here at the bottom that
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is PCI Express 2 so it's double the bandwidth of the old PCI Express 1 and I
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think that's pretty much everything there is to say about it uh
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evga's I guess their value ad their brand value is a few different things
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first of all they have their stepup program which allows you within a
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certain window of time to take your GTX 570 let's say NVIDIA you know kind of uh
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had the 570 on the market only for like a month and then they go and release
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like a 575 or something EVGA stepup program allows you to trade in your old
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570 and then pay like the difference to
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get the new 575 so it's a pretty cool program they also have their lifetime
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warranty as well as 24/7 tech support so
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those are some of the EVGA differences and I'll actually um show you guys also
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what they have to say for themselves so besides their EVGA Precision Tool which
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is uh an overclocking utility they've also got some of their selling points
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here so that the number one seller they're the number one in reliability
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and service according to uh some survey somewhere and they're the performance
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leader in 3D Mark vage although 3D Mark 11 was released today so it's going to
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be Off to the Races all over again for all the crazy overclocking guys and then
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