14 DAY TRIAL // Just a day after EVGA started retailing the first GTX 570 graphics card to feature 2.5GB of video buffer, it has come to our attention that Point of View is also developing such a solution, which should become available in the next few days.
The card, which isn't yet listed on Point of View's website, made its appearance in the offer of several European e-tailers, and it looks surprisingly similar with other GTX 570 models form POV's lineup, if the picture provided is indeed real.
Just as EVGA's solution, the Point of View card uses a custom designed cooler, which resembles the one used for GTX 560 Ti series, but this was redesigned in order to handle the excess heat produced by the GF110 core.
Except for the new cooling system, the other specifications of the card were left pretty much unaltered, so the GPU is clocked at the same 732MHz, as the reference Nvidia solution, while the shader processors operate at 1464 MHz (double the frequency of the GPU).
The 2.5GB of video memory installed by Point of View are also running at their stock frequency of 950 MHz (3.8GHz effective data rate).
The increased size of the video buffer should be able bring a nice performance boost when running multi-monitor or 3DVision setups as well as in titles such as Metro 2033 or Shogun 2, that use high-resolution textures.
As noted earlier, the card is already listed by a series of retailers with prices starting at 322.56 Euro (about $464 USD), excluding VAT. The POV GTX 570 2.5GB is expected to become available in a few days time.
Its closest competitor, the EVGA GeForce GTX 570 HD 2560MB, which we detailed yesterday, is listed at $399.
Nvidia's GeForce GTX 570 is based on the company's GF110 GPU and it packs 480 stream processors, 60 texture units, 40 ROP units and a 320-bit wide memory bus. (via ComputerBase)