Testurteil: "Gold Award"
Test: Einzeltest: ASUS GTX 570
Zitat: Pros: + Great Overclocker
+ Great Performance
+ Decent Temperatures
+ Smart Doctor Software
+ Power consumption (Stock)
+ 3D Ecosystem available
Cons: - Power Consumption (Overclocked Load)
With so many choices it can be extremely hard to choose a video card. Both ATI and NVIDIA want you to use one of their chips in your rig, but how do you choose? Both companies have offerings for the higher-end users and both have benefits over the other. The NVIDIA GTX 570 is a great card for both the high-end and mid-range user. ASUS´s factory overclocked edition of the card is definitely a great choice if you do decide to go with a GF110 card. It offered great performance in every benchmark and usually performed on the higher end of our benchmarks. And with a price tag of only $349.99, you really can´t go wrong! The card overclocks very well, especially when compared to NVIDIA´s reference card. Once overclocked, we saw a very large performance increase, which is always fun to see. Not only that, but the temperatures weren´t all that crazy. The card did heat up quite a bit once at load while being overclocked, but nothing to crazy since the reference Vapor Chamber heat sink is well equipped to manage the heat. In the end, I´d recommend this card to any high-end or mid-range user. That being said, the price tag can be considered slightly steep for the mid-range, so it may be higher-end users purchasing this card. Either way, I´m sure whoever purchases it will be very pleased. Editors note, there doesn´t seem to be any compelling reason to be purchasing a GTX 480 at the current prices.