14 DAY TRIAL // Since NVIDIA just brought out its newest video card for the enthusiast market, there is no question that its partners will flood the market with their own models in short order, and Zotac seems to have been one of the faster ones.
The newest Fermi-based card that the Santa Clara, California-based company released is known as GeForce GTX 570.
Basically, the company took the reference board, added its logo on the package and sent it out into the world with just its price tag to help it along.
In other words, the Zotac GTX 570 has the exact same specifications as NVIDIA's original board, clock speeds included.
As such, the card uses the GF110 graphics processing unit, in this case with a frequency of 732 MHz.
Said GPU is complemented by 1,280 MB of GDDR5 VRAM, whose own clock is set at 3,800 MHz.
Additionally, the video controller comes with 480 CUDA cores and a shader clock speed of 1,464 MHz.
To these performance numbers are added support for DirectX 11, PhysX, CUDA, 3D Vision Surround and SLI, among other things.
“The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 570 graphics card enables gamers to take advantage of Microsoft DirectX 11 technology at high-resolutions with high-quality details for exceptional realism and class-leading frame rates,” said Carsten Berger, marketing director, ZOTAC® International.
“We are also able to deliver a 25-percent performance increase with greater levels of energy-efficiency and reduced noise-levels compared to prior generations with the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 570 as well,” he added.
For compatibility with a wide range of displays, and in order to allow the triple-display 3D setups that a multi-GPU configuration can handle, the card boasts a pair of DVI ports and a mini HDMI output.
As all the other cards of this type, it should already be up and selling for a price of $350.