Technical data / specifications

With the DirectCUII ASUS has yet another NVIDIA 500-series graphics card in its portfolio that features an improved power design as well as a new cooler. This card can rely on eight phases and to furhter improve reliability ASUS provided the different components like coils, capacitors, POSCAPS and MOSFETs with an alloy which should keep them cooler and therefore improve the components lifespan.
Another key component with this card is the DirectCUII cooler which also is a design by ASUS and has been equipped with two 100 millimeter fans. You also find five heatpipes with a diameter of eight millimeter. According to ASUS this cooler should work much more efficient than the reference model. In reality we see that when the card is in idle mode it is just a little bit noisier then the reference but under heavy load conditions it's not only working more efficient it is also way more silent.
Looking at the clock speed we can see that the GTX 570 DirectCUII comes with a 10 MHz overclocking on the GPU which is almost standard with ASUS graphics cards these days.

	ASUS GTX 570 DirectCU II	GTX 560 TI	GTX 570	GTX 580
Chip	GF110	GF114	GF110	GF110
Process	40 nm	40 nm	40 nm	40 nm
Transistors	3.0 billion	1.95 billion	3.0 billion	3.0billion
GPU clock	742 MHz	822 MHz	732 MHz	772 MHz
Shader clock	1'484 MHz	1'645 MHz	1'464 MHz	1'544 MHz
Memory	1'280 MB GDDR5	1'024 MB GDDR5	1'280 MB GDDR5	1'536 MB GDDR5
Memory clock	3'800 MHz	4'008 MHz	3'800 MHz	4'008 MHz
Memory interface	320 Bit	256 Bit	320 Bit	384 Bit
Memory bandwidth	152'000 MB/s	128'256 MB/s	152'000 MB/s	192'400 MB/s
TMUs	60	64	60	64
TAUs	60	64	60	64
Shader Cores	480 (5D)	384 (1D)	480 (5D)	512 (1D)
ROPs	40 ROP	32 ROP	40 ROP	48 ROP
Shader model	SM 5	SM 5	SM 5	SM 5

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 6 - Futuremark
Page 2 - Specifications	Page 7 - Unigine Heaven / Stone Giant
Page 3 - Preview / Delivery	Page 8 - World in Conflict / Resident Evil 5
Page 4 - Overclocking	Page 9 - Call of Juarez / Far Cry 2
Page 5 - Testing conditions	Page 10 - Conclusion

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