PNY GeForce GTX570 Enthusiast Edition Review

PNY's GTX 570 is based on the NVIDIA reference model.  The shroud that covers the card and the heatsink is a gloss black plastic and it uses a blower type fan to cool the card. Our review sample has the core clocked to 732 MHz, the shaders run at 1464 MHz, and the 1280MB of GDDR5 is clocked at 950 MHz. The GTX 570 also has 40 ROP's, 480 Shaders, a 320bit memory bus and an impressive 152 GB of memory bandwidth.

The PNY GTX 570 needs 2 x 6 pin PCI-e connectors for stable operation. There are 2 SLI connections which allow up to multiple SLI configurations unlike the GTX 460 which only had a single connection restricting it to 2 way SLI.

The first image above shows the blower style fan used on the GTX 570. The fan forces the hot air over the entire heatsink before expelling it outside the rear of our case. The final image shows the connections available on the GTX 570. There are 2 Dual Link DVI ports as well as 1 mini HDMI port.

An overview of the hardware in GPUz and GPU Caps Viewer.

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