14 DAY TRIAL // Taiwan based Gigabyte seems to be the latest manufacturer to add its name to the list of GTX 570 solutions that are available out there, the company just outing the GV-N570D5-13I-B graphics cards that is build using Nvidia's latest 500 series GPU.
Coming as just a regular GTX 570 with no factory improved clocks, the GV-N570D5-13I-B is what I would call a pretty standard GTX 570 graphics card, Gigabyte not adding anything spectacular to its solution.
For those of you that don't know that many things about the GTX 570, this graphics core is based on the high performing GF110 GPU the GTX 580 is built upon, although Nvidia did disable one of the 16 SMs available in the GF110 architecture to create the GTX 570.
Furthermore, this also means that some of the L2 cache was removed together with a memory controller as well as some of the ROP and texturing units available on the rendering side of the core.
As a result the GTX 570 comes with 480 CUDA cores, 60 texture address and filtering units and 40 ROPs, the memory interface being limited at 320-bit compared to the 384-bit bus that is to be found on the GTX 580.
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.
When it comes to clock speeds, Gigabyte's GTX 570 closely follows Nvidia's reference frequencies, the core being run at 732MHz while the 1.28GB of GDDR5 memory is clocked at a 3800MHz data rate.
In practice, this should prove to be noticeably slower than EVGA's SuperClocked GTX 570 that comes with a pretty hefty factory core overclock, in EVGA's case the GPU being run at just a few MHz shy of the 800 mark.
Unfortunately, no official information about pricing are available, although I expect this will be priced at $350 similarly to all the other GTX 570 solutions available out there.