14 DAY TRIAL // In the first day of Computex, EVGA has announced that the company is working on delivering a Classified version of Nvidia's popular GeForce GTX 570 graphics card, and now, about a month after the fair closed its gates, the card was finally listed on the company's website.
Taking a look at EVGA's latest creation, it becomes apparent that the cooling solution used is remarkably similar with that of Nvidia's reference design.
However, this has been tweaked in order to cope with the increased amount of heat produced by overclocking and EVGA has even redesigned the card's printed circuit board.
Compared to the standard PCB, this now features a 10-layer design, an advanced 6-phase digital GPU VRM, which EVGA states that it can improve overclocking headroom, as well as dedicated voltage readout points.
Additional modifications were also brought to the power delivery systems, as the card now carries a 6 and an 8-pin PCI-Express power connector, which can deliver up to 225W of power (the PCI Express slot provides an additional 75W).
All these changes allowed EVGA to raise the operating clocks of the GeForce GTX 570 Classified to 822MHz for the GPU and 975MHz (3.9GHz effective) for the memory.
To put things into perspective, the stock version of the GTX 570 has its core running at 732MHz, while the memory works at 950MHz (3800MHz data rate).
The EVGA card also includes a full-sized HDMI 1.4 connector as well as a DisplayPort output, next to the usual pair of dual-link DVI connectors.
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 that is connected to 1.25GB of GDDR5 video buffer.
Pricing for the GeForce GTX 570 Classified has been established at $359.99, but the card isn't yet available in stock.