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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."
GPU sales don't work like that, they are not the latest Xmas toy. They will simply drop depending on competition, it could be after Xmas but it could be before. Right now if you have $350 to spend you can get a 570 and get 80% of the much more expensive 580. Or if you don't mind crossfire you could spend ~$380 and get two HD 6850's and get even closer to the 580 for many games.
> what's the significance of video card news as of late again?
1920 x 1080 max details, 4x MSAA, 16xAA, in the latest games: Battlefield Bad Co 2, CoD, etc.
Now before you accuse me of being a 3d graphics whore, I was playing glQuake at 512x384 res to guarantee a min 60 Hz framerate, so I've payed my dues of low rez. :-)
IMHO the Radeon HD 5770 at ~ $125, is one of the nicest bang/buck. Especially in Crossfire mode.
Heh, I've almost given up on following the model numbers, and just head directly to http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/ to get a *general* idea of where a card falls in the grand scheme of things.
I've sort of been toying with the idea of another gaming notebook, but I was kinda disappointed in my last one (Inspiron 7200 with a Geforce 4200 Go)... it seemed great for a couple of years, but still went out of date before its time... Dell never released drivers for anything newer than WinXP, and even under Linux it couldn't do proper compositing. So I was running circles around it with a 2 year older desktop machine. The Inspiron still has a lovely widescreen display, though, wish I could run something modern on it.
Anyway, let me know if you find something cheap / interesting that could maybe keep up with the 8800GT in my aging desktop.
I'm using a HD4350. Biggest news I've noticed lately is that it now shows up in lm_sensors output, and the gallium driver can render Minecraft properly albeit slowly. At this rate of progress it'll probably have fast 3D in a few months, then the sugar on top like OpenVG. And it won't suddenly stop working on the whim of one company a few years down the line - that's why I don't buy nVidia any more.
Huh? Stable is perfectly fine.
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
The performance is most certainly larger than 5% (Consider that it can have upwards of 50% performance improvement over the 470 which was launched earlier this year.), but you fail to consider that this performance will be delivered for fewer watts, saving power both in and of itself and through the reduced need for cooling. Benchmarks from AnandTech show that Crysis will give this card a workout when played at 2560 x 1600 with high settings, so it's somewhat disingenuous to claim that there's nothing out there that will tax this card. It's definitely a card for enthusiast gamers who want to use the highest resolutions and graphics settings so it's definitely not something the mainstream will care about.
The new cards also have significant compute advantages compared to previous generation cards. The 570 has 4x the performance of a 285 in some benchmarks. The 285 came out less than two years ago and cost significantly more at the time of release. OpenCL is allowing graphics cards the opportunity to do a lot of things other than just 3D rendering. For some workflows, investing in these powerful graphics cards is a lot better than buying better CPUs.