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Nvidia Adds GeForce GTX 570 To Graphics Lineup
crookedvulture writes "Filling the gap between mid-range graphics cards around the $200 mark and high-end excess that costs upward of $500, Nvidia has added a $350 GeForce GTX 570 to its stable of graphics cards. Based on the company's latest GF110 GPU, the GTX 570 offers equivalent performance to last year's flagship GTX 480 with lower power consumption and a cheaper price tag. The value proposition is strong with this one, although as The Tech Report's review points out, it would be wise to hold out until AMD's "Cayman" graphics card breaks cover, which it's expected to do next week."
I may be out of the loop but what's the significance of video card news as of late again? There's just standard 'it's faster' hype all over the place.
Call me when something big happens, like when hardware T&L suddenly became the hot shit of tech.
p.s. i'm perfectly happy and content with my Radeon HD3850 which wasn't a bad deal at all for $70USD in 2008. These companies need to convince harder to win my dollar.
It's a crippled version of the 580 at a lower price point. Nothing to see here. The high-end version will probably drop in price after Xmas anyway, as dealers dump unsold inventory.
Does anyone know anything about any new features of GF110? Or is it just more speed? Are there any new cool shader extensions that are 10 times faster?
Yeah, but does it run LINUX?
....dont forget that all cards of the Fermi class are known to improve Penile girth. Sadly, SLI is required for length.
The Nvidia corporation are not about to allow you or your familiy to have access to any kind of documentation, code or anything else for that matter. You can use their cards on free software systems, but you have to submit to their Binary Blob world order to do so and if you are willing to do that then you might as well run Windows. I've heard it's improved somewhat since 3.1, and people seem to like it. AMD are, on the other hand, barely making an effort to help free software driver development by publishing documentation and they also have some worker-drones submitting to mesa git on a regular basis. The free drivers are very slow compared to their binary blob, which they also would like you to submit to, but atleast they are doing more good than nvidia at this point.
9/11: Never forget it was a false-flag operation
You can use their cards on free software systems, but you have to submit to their Binary Blob world order to do so and if you are willing to do that then you might as well run Windows
That quote make no sense at all. Most desktop users of opensource software don't really care about the source availability. They just care that Linux/BSD/Whatever is better in supporting the jobs they need their computer for. Just think about how few of the users who run desktop linux, actuelly have the ability* to modify the source of anything.
*And more important: That want to modify the source
Huh? Stable is perfectly fine.
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
I have no idea how CmdrTaco got this job
...he started the website.
The value proposition at techreport that is mentioned in TFA has it's toungue so deep up nvidia's bottom that it is hard to keep a straight face.
They have this scatterplot that puts price against performance.
There are 16 setups in the plot.
One of these is nvidia's GTX580.
According to the plot, only 2 cards of the other 15 have a worse performance per dollar.
Despite this fact the article mentions: "Nvidia's newest is actually pretty well positioned on the scatter plot, with only the mid-range multi-GPU solutions occupying obviously better real-estate."
Then they do this funky thing where they add in the system price to the chart, obviously skewing the results making the nvidia stand out. And then they actually admit that this gives a skewed perspective..
Be warned ..
Whatever.
As a longtime Linux user, I could care less that I need a closed-source binary blob to run my graphics card. You know what? I'd rather trust the guys at NVIDIA to write a solid, good performing driver for their own hardware, than have a buggy less-capable equivalent even if it's open source. I have had multiple Linux boxen at home running many different generations of NVIDIA hardware, with few problems over the years. Apart from forced driver obsolescence (old hardware not supported in the latest drivers), which admittedly is a non-issue, I've not had any problems with the binary drivers from NVIDIA under Linux. They just work.
On the other hand, nobody could pay me enough money to run AMD graphics cards in Windows and suffer using their Windows drivers. Admittedly ATI made major driver quality and stability improvements around the R300 launch, but not much has improved since then. And that's 8 long years ago.
You are clearly ate the fuck up.
Whatever.
[...]I've not had any problems with the binary drivers from NVIDIA under Linux. They just work.
On the other hand, nobody could pay me enough money to run AMD graphics cards in Windows and suffer using their Windows drivers. Admittedly ATI made major driver quality and stability improvements around the R300 launch, but not much has improved since then. And that's 8 long years ago.
You neglected to mention the ATI/AMD Linux driver situation. The proprietary driver works for about 1 out of 32 models available and it will panic the kernel faster than Steve Ballmer can do a monkey boy dance. They are orders of magnitude worse than the Windows drivers.