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Considering the other three cards in these comparative benchmarks are all £400-odd cards the figures we're getting out of the GTX 570 are impressive.
The GTX 570 is actually happily trading blows with the GTX 480, a card that until a couple of months ago was the pinnacle of single-GPU performance. For less than £300 it's arguably making itself more relevant than the GTX 580.
All these figures are taken at the maxed out resolution of our 30-inch screen, 2560x1600 and represents the current top end of gaming resolutions.
DirectX 11 Tessellation Performance
Heaven 2.0 – FPS: higher is better
Nvidia GTX 570 – 22
Nvidia GTX 580 – 25.9
Nvidia GTX 480 – 21.7
AMD HD 5970 – 20.8
DirectX 11 Gaming Performance
Metro 2033 – FPS: higher is better
Nvidia GTX 570 – 3
Nvidia GTX 580 – 14
Nvidia GTX 480 - 13
AMD HD 5970 – 1
DiRT 2 – FPS: higher is better
Nvidia GTX 570 – 64
Nvidia GTX 580 – 75
Nvidia GTX 480 - 59
AMD HD 5970 – 72
AvP – FPS: higher is better
Nvidia GTX 570 – 22
Nvidia GTX 580 – 27
Nvidia GTX 480 - 23
AMD HD 5970 – 31
LP2 – FPS: higher is better
Nvidia GTX 570 – 32
Nvidia GTX 580 – 36
Nvidia GTX 480 - 30
AMD HD 5970 – 31
DirectX 10 Gaming Performance
Just Cause 2 – FPS: higher is better
Nvidia GTX 570 – 30
Nvidia GTX 580 – 34
Nvidia GTX 480 - 31
AMD HD 5970 – 39
Far Cry 2 – FPS: higher is better
Nvidia GTX 570 – 66
Nvidia GTX 580 – 76
Nvidia GTX 480 - 66
AMD HD 5970 – 82
Crysis Warhead – FPS: higher is better
Nvidia GTX 570 – 25
Nvidia GTX 580 – 21
Nvidia GTX 480 - 17
AMD HD 5970 – 27
