Gainward GeForce GTX 570 Phantom Review

How we tested

As always, we did our best to deliver a clean set of benchmarks, with each test repeated three times and an average of those results is what we’re reporting here. In the rare cases where performance was inconsistent, we continued repeating the test until we got three results that were consistent.

The tests performed are a mixture of custom in-game timedemos and manually played sections, using FRAPS to record the average and minimum frame rates. We strive to not only record real-world performance you will actually see, but also present the results in a manner that is easy to digest.

Intel Core i7 Test System

• Intel Core i7-965 processor (3.2GHz: 133MHz x 24)
  
• Asus P6T V2 motherboard (Intel X58 Express with three 16x PCI-Express 2.0 slots)
  
• 3 x 2GB Corsair TR3X6G1333C9 memory modules (operating in triple-channel mode at 1,600MHz 9-9-9-24-1T)
  
• Corsair X128 120GB SSD running v1 firmware
  
• Corsair HX1000W PSU
  
• Windows 7 Home Premium x64
  
• Antec Twelve Hundred Chassis

ATI Graphics Cards

• AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB (800MHz GPU, 5GHz memory) using Catalyst 11.1 WHQL
  
• AMD Radeon HD 6970 2GB (880MHz GPU, 5.5GHz memory) using Release Driver
  
• AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB (800MHz GPU, 5GHz memory) using Catalyst 11.1 WHQL
  
• AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB (900MHz GPU, 4.2GHz memory) using Catalyst 10.9 WHQL
  
• AMD Radeon HD 6850 1GB (725MHz GPU, 4GHz memory) using Catalyst 10.9 WHQL
  
• AMD Radeon HD 5870 1GB (850MHz GPU, 4.8GHz memory) using Catalyst 10.9 WHQL
  
• AMD Radeon HD 5850 1GB (725MHz GPU, 4.0GHz memory) using Catalyst 10.9 WHQL
  
• AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB (850MHz GPU, 4.8GHz memory) using Catalyst 10.9 WHQL

Nvidia Graphics Cards

• Gainward GeForce GTX 570 Phantom³1.3GB (750MHz core, 1,500MHz stream processors, 3.9GHz memory) using Release Driver
  
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 1.5GB (772MHz core, 1,544MHz stream processors, 4.08GHz memory) using Release Driver
  
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 1.3GB (732MHz core, 1,464MHz stream processors, 3.8GHz memory) using Release Driver
  
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB (820MHz core, 1,640MHz stream processors, 4GHz memory) using Release Driver
  
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB (756MHz core, 1,512MHz stream processors, 3.8GHz Memory) using ForceWare 260.89 WHQL
  
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 1.2GB (607MHz core, 1,215MHz stream processors, 3.3GHz memory) using ForceWare 260.89 WHQL
  
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 1GB (675MHz core, 1,350MHz stream processors, 3.6GHz memory) using ForceWare 260.89 WHQL
  
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675MHz core, 1,350MHz stream processors, 3.6GHz memory) using ForceWare 260.89 WHQL

Games Tested

• Colin McRae: Dirt 2 (DX11)
  
• Call of Duty: Black Ops (OpenGL)
  
• Just Cause 2 (DX10)
  
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (DX11)