Less than two weeks after its launch we already checked an handful of GeForce GTX 570 cards, some that have been customized in some way or another. Yeah the GeForce GTX 570 is going to be popular, it certainly offers lot of performance in the high-end segment. As you guys learned by now, the GeForce GTX 480 is officially going end of life, and to replace the product NVIDIA has introduced that GeForce GTX 570. This graphics card that is positioned in the $349 price bracket yet offers an massive chunk of high-end DirectX 11 performance alongside good GPU temperatures and noise levels. And today's offering is an customized model GeForce GTX 570 graphics card version from the good people at Palit. - Guru3D

Palit GeForce GTX 570 Sonic Platinum Edition Review

They did something really special, they launched a GeForce GTX 570 with what they refer to as a mercury design. The name of the product is tagged under their known Sonic Platinum edition series, and as you guys know that guarantees more features and some extras. These extras can be found in the customized looks with that very dandy looking dual fans GPU cooler. Next to that Palit pre-clocked the product at a nice 800MHz for you on the core, also 1600MHz on the shader domain and even the memory got bumped up towards 4000MHz effective. The end result is a product that closes in at the GeForce GTX 580 performance.

Nice, we find these Palit GeForce GTX 570 Sonic Platinum edition a surprisingly interesting products. See by itself it produces roughly the same thermal design power, power consumption and noise levels as the reference design. Though their cooler certainly is doing a much better job with the heatpipe design and two fans. Next to the nice looks there's that other fact as well, it is a factory overclocked product, clocked significantly higher. And that by itself caters that very a-typical audience, the folks that just do not want to overclock themselves yet do yearn for the additional performance. You install the card and you gain extra performance.

Palit puts a great product on the market that we feel has no downsides really. They added features, being two DVI connectors, one HDMI and one DisplayPort connector, the more robust 6-pin and 8-pin power connector configuration, their cooler design, the pre-overclock, it's just all done right really. You just install it and play your games at really excellent frame rates. The one thing that might hinder you is the price tag of course, but if you can find it anywhere in between $369-399, then as far as we are concerned this card is very much recommended.