Palit GeForce GTX 570 Sonic Platinum Pro Reviews

The Palit GTX 570 Sonic Platinum's performance isn't all you'll be getting when you purchase this card. You'll also receive all the bells and whistles of owning a GPU from NVIDIA. This includes both NVIDIA CUDA and PhysX technologies. Not only that, but you'll also be able to utilize NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround technology, provided you have the correct setup. This means you'd need at least two of these cards in SLI and the correct 3D Vision Ready displays. You will also be greeted with NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technology, OpenGL 4.1, and HDMI 4.1a support. Not too shabby of a bundle!

Clearly, and as we have mentioned previously, the new NVIDIA Fermi cards are geared for tessellation. But with DirectX 11 games still few and far between and AMD already signaling its intentions to improve their cards’ tessellation performance, NVIDIA might have jumped the gun in this aspect. Nevertheless, any one with a Fermi card in hand now can rest assure in the fact that when DirectX 11 does take off in a big way, their cards will be ready for the job. As for the Palit GeForce GTX 570 Sonic Platinum, we have to praise Palit for its promptness in delivering a custom designed card to the market. Furthermore, it’s a very decent card, offering a significant bump in performance over a reference card, although at the cost of higher power draw and a louder cooler

NVIDIA got it right once again. There is a perfect balance of price, performance-level, and power-draw, it all fell in the right place. Palit's card is a decent non-reference implementation of the GF100 board. A lot of care was taken to ensure electrical stability, with plenty of voltage phases. The overclocking capability is good, but is limited whenever voltage-based tuning is needed. The cooler, which looks very Quadro-ish, provides fairly good cooling, it's not much noisier than the reference design blower, despite its double-fan design. In all, Palit's GTX 570 Sonic is worth considering if you're planning to buy a GTX 570.