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We have collected 2 reviews of the Palit GTX 570 Sonic Platinum. Experts rate Palit GTX 570 Sonic Platinum 8/10. Reviewsor.com helps you find reviews, best prices, user reviews of the Palit GTX 570 Sonic Platinum and Palit Graphics cards.
Palit’s high-end cards tend to be exercises in extravagance. That’s certainly true with its GTX 570 Sonic Platinum. At first, we thought Palit shipped the wrong card, given the 8-pin power connector nestled adjacent to the 6-pin connector, just like a GTX 580. However, it’s really a GTX 570—albeit with a core clock of 800MHz (versus the stock 742MHz) and the GDDR5 frame buffer clocking an even 1GHz (versus the reference 950MHz.) Of course, pushing a GTX 570 that hard likely requires an extra current load, hence the 8-pin connector. In fact, our testing revealed that the Palit GTX 570 sucked a stunning 388W at full load, just shy of the EVGA GTX 580 SuperClock’s 395W. The Palit’s idle number is worse by comparison, though, at 161W—the worst of all the cards compared in our chart. But don’t assume that the Palit card is equivalent to a GTX 580 when it comes to performance. The Sonic Platinum fell short in the benchmarks compared to the GTX 580 SC. At $370, though, it’s also considerably less costly than a GTX 580.
It's been more than two months since the release of NVIDIA's GTX 570. Since this time, we've seen many different versions of this card from different manufacturers and we already know quite a lot about this card. For instance, it uses the extremely powerful GF 110 core and it's a very affordable high performance card. So where do manufacturers go from there? Today we will be looking at an offering from Palit, the GTX 570 Sonic Platinum. This is an overclocked edition with a custom dual-fan "Mercury Design" cooler. According to Palit, the factory-overclocked Sonic Platinum edition of the GTX 570 will give a 6% performance increase in DX11-based games. This is a nice little performance boost straight out of the box. Along with the performance boost, we should also see the card run silent and cool. The Palit GTX 570 Sonic Platinum arrived in a box that was very similar to the Palit GTX 470. The box featured Palit's logo, a picture of the card, and some brief information about the card. Flipping the box over reveals some more information about the card, as well as some information about the card's features.