14 DAY TRIAL // Some of NVIDIA's partners may have released or announced their video controllers even before NVIDIA actually made the formal announcement of the GeForce GTX 570, but ASUS waited a bit before unleashing its own model.
For those that, for some reason or another, do not yet know, NVIDIA released the GeForce GTX 570 video card.
Soon after, many of NVIDIA's partners, like Zotac, Club3D, EVGA, Palit and MSI, among others, unveiled their own models, with or without factory overcloking.
Now, ASUS has added its name to this list by bringing out a factory overclocked GTX 570 of its own, one that maintains the design of the original.
As NVIDIA intended, it comes with the 40nm-based GF110 graphics processing unit (GPU) and 480 CUDA cores.
It also has 1,280 MB of GDDR5 VRAM and a memory interface of 320 bits, plus dual-DVI and HDMI outputs.
Basically, the clocks are the only things that were changed, though not overmuch and only as far as the GPU itself goes.
In other words, while the shaders and memory kept their frequencies of 1,464 MHz and 3,800 MHz, the center piece was nudged a bit higher, to 742 MHz instead of 732 MHz.
All in all, it is just a slightly overclocked board but which promises to actually deliver a performance gain of up to 50% in some situations because of the Voltage Tweak function.
Basically, it will let end-users boost the clocks on their own, should they so wish, though it will fall to them to ensure the product's survival should they try any radical changes to the performance numbers.
It can supposedly be found on pre-order for as little as 321.13 Euro, even though its recommended price is of 364 Euro. What remains to be seen is how it faces off against its various competitors.