14 DAY TRIAL // If you thought that the slew of GTX 570 graphics cards is coming to an end, then you need to think again as Leadtek also announced their solution built on top of the GF110 GPU, the new WinFast GTX 570 graphics card that comes with 3D Vision Surround support.
As you have probably got used to by know, Leadtek's video card doesn't differ form the reference Nvidia design, Leadtek's only contribution being a sports car inspired sticker that is placed on the top side of the board.
Its operating frequencies are the same as those of almost every other GTX 570 available out there, only a few vendors such as EVGA, Colorful or Sparkle offering factory overclocked versions of the GTX 570.
Form all those overclocked solutions that we have seen lately, EVGA's SuperClocked model seems to be one of the highest performing options available as its core is run at 797MHz compared to the regular 732MHz.
However, this isn't the case with Leadtek's offering as the Taiwanese company settled for the usual 732MHz core and 3800MHz memory reference clocks that Nvidia has set for its latest graphics card offering.
Compared to the GTX 580 that is based on the full GF110 core, the GTX 570 comes with one of the 16 stream modules deactivated as well as with a lower amount of L2 cache, less ROP and texturing units, one of the six memory controllers being also deactivated.
As a result the card features 480 CUDA cores, 60 texture address and filtering units and 40 ROPs, the memory interface being limited to a 320-bit bus.
Despite all these shortcomings, early reviews have found the GTX 570 to perform on par with the GTX 480 while coming in with an improved power consumptions and offering better cooling.
Although no official informations regarding pricing have been made available yet, non-overclcked GTX 570 designs usually respect Nvidia's $350 price envelope.