Gainward GTX 570 "Goes Like Hell" Graphics Card Review

When NVIDIA launched the GTX580 a few months back the only cards available on launch day were reference models with the main difference between each being the sticker used on the heatsink. The recent GTX 570 launch was a similar affair however some manufacturers did take the opportunity to perform some overclocking on the cards at the factory. Really though all of the launch day cards were the same PCB with the same cooler and the end user could manually overclock to the same level as the factory overclocked model easily.

Following a big launch from NVIDIA or AMD it is only a matter of time until their partners begin releasing cards with enhanced cooling and specifications and on our test bench today we have one of the first cards to tweak the GTX 570 design. Gainwards GTX 570 GLH Edition features their own cooler and a factory overclock to enhance the performance over reference cards. We will put it through a selection of real world tests which include Black Ops, stereoscopic 3D gaming, Blu-Ray 3D and GPU computing to see how it compares to the reference model.