14 DAY TRIAL // It seems that Palit isn't bound to restrict itself to the 'confines' that NVIDIA placed on the performance of the GeForce GTX 570, so it released not just a 'regular' version but one with factory overclocking as well.
As consumers probably know by now, NVIDIA officially introduced the GeForce GTX 570, its newest Fermi card, powered by the GF110 GPU.
Sure enough, Zotac, Gainward and MSI have already adopted it and customized it, while Maingear has added it to its gaming PCs.
Now, Palit brought forth two GTX 570 models of its own, one of which feature factory overclocking and bears the name of GTX 570 Sonic Platinum.
The regular card has 480 CUDA cores, 1,280 MB of GDDR5 VRAM and 480 CUDA cores, their clock speeds being 732 MHz, 1,464 MHz and 3,800 MHz, respectively.
Basically, it is rated as 25% more powerful than the previous-generation cards it means to replace, even outmatching the GTX 480.
The other board is, as expected, more interesting, especially seeing how its GPU clock is of a solid 800 MHz.
It also boasts a shader clock of 1,600 MHz and a memory frequency of 4,000 MHz while obviously retaining the same number of shaders and the same memory capacity.
Both cards have a memory interface of 320 bits and full support for DirectX 11, PhysX, CUDA, 3D Vision Surround and SLI.
All in all, the Palit GTX 570 Sonic Platinum can run 6% better than the non-OC board in DirrctX 11 mode and also 8% better in DirectX 10 applications.
NVIDIA's own card is known to bear a price of around $350, which means that Palit's own products should stay near this figure as well, though the overclocked one will obviously cost a bit more. Users should be able to find them both online, or will be able to soon enough.