NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Hits $349 Price Point

NVIDIA has outed its latest video card, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570, a GTX 500 Series card that's been buffed down to a budget. With an RRP of $349, the GTX 570 takes the chassis of November's GTX 580 and shaves away the GPU to suit: it has 480 CUDA cores, a 732MHz graphics clock and 1,464MHz processor clock, while outputs consist of a mini HDMI and two dual-link DVI ports.

There's also a 320-bit memory interface, and 1280MB of GDDR5 memory as standard; the memory clock runs at 1900MHz. It's also NVIDIA SLI ready, for 3-way video card setups, along with 3D Vision PhysX and DirectX 11, together with OpenGL 4.1

The double-width card also gets the vapor chamber cooling of the GTX 580, but has lower power requirements: just two 6-pin ports, in fact. Expect cards from ASL, ASUS, Colorful, ECS, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, Jetway, Leadtek, MSI, Palit, Point of View, PNY, Sparkle, Zotac and others.

Press Release:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 GPU Gives Gamers Explosive Performance and Quiet Gaming

Built From the DNA of GTX 580, Just in Time for the Holidays

The new GeForce GTX 570 delivers the world's fastest DX11 performance in its class, and is up to 128 percent faster in today's newest DX11 tessellated games.

SANTA CLARA, CA — (Marketwire) — 12/07/2010 — Hot on the heels of last month's successful launch of the GeForce® GTX 580 graphics processing unit (GPU), NVIDIA® today announced the immediate availability of the GeForce GTX 570 — the newest addition to its GTX 500 Series of DirectX 11 (DX11) GPUs designed for PC gaming enthusiast platforms. The GeForce GTX 570 brings a new level of DX11 price/performance to the enthusiast PC gaming market while maintaining quiet acoustics and is available starting today from the world's leading add-in card partners, including ASL, ASUS, Colorful, ECS, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, Jetway, Leadtek, MSI, Palit, Point of View, PNY, Sparkle, Zotac and others.

Like all NVIDIA "DX11 Done Right" GPUs, the GTX 570 delivers the world's fastest performance for DirectX 11 (DX11) games in its class. When compared to the closest competitive product, the GTX 570 is up to 128 percent faster(i) in today's newest DX11 tessellated games, and even 30 percent faster(ii) in previous-generation DX9 and DX10 games as well. With all of this performance under the hood, it is no wonder why GeForce GPUs remain as the world's number one brand for consumer GPUs.

With full support for NVIDIA 3D Vision™ and NVIDIA Surround™ technologies, the GeForce GTX 570 GPU also provides the graphics horsepower and video bandwidth needed to experience games and high-definition Blu-ray movies in eye-popping stereoscopic 3D on a single display or spanning across three screens for an immersive gaming environment. And with NVIDIA SLI™ technology, the industry's most scalable multi-GPU platform, gamers will be delighted by the sheer increase in gaming performance by adding a second GeForce GTX 570 to their PC.

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