Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 User manual

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570

GPU Datasheet

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570

GPU Datasheet

3D Graphics

•Full Microsoft® DirectX® 11 Shader Model 5.0 support:

oNVIDIA PolyMorph Engine with distributed HW tessellation engines

oBC6H and BC7 texture compression formats

oGather4 extensions

•OpenGL 4.1 support

•Advanced image quality features:

o32× coverage sample antialiasing

oTransparent multisampling and transparent supersampling

o16× angle independent anisotropic filtering

o128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting with antialiasing; 32-

bit per-component floating point texture filtering and blending

•Interactive ray tracing support

•Full-speed frame buffer blending

•Full-speed FP16 texture filtering

•Advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture, and zdata

•Support for normal map compression

•Adaptive z-cull

•Early-Z

GPU Computing

•NVIDIA CUDA™ technology—allows the GPU cores to provide performance

improvements for applications such as video transcoding, gaming, ray tracing, and

physics. API support includes:

oCUDA C

oCUDA C++

oDirectCompute 5.0

oOpenCL

oJava, Python, and Fortran

•Third Generation Streaming Multiprocessor (SM)

o32 CUDA cores per SM

oDualWarp Scheduler simultaneously schedules and dispatches instructions

from two independent warps

o64 KB of RAM with a configurable partitioning of shared memory and L1

cache

•Second Generation Parallel Thread Execution ISA

oUnified Address Space with Full C++ Support

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oOptimized for OpenCL and DirectCompute

oFull IEEE 754-2008 32-bit and 64-bit precision

oFull 32-bit integer path with 64-bit extensions

oMemory access instructions to support transition to 64-bit addressing

oImproved Performance through Predication

•Improved Memory Subsystem

oNVIDIA Parallel DataCacheTM hierarchy with Configurable L1 and Unified L2

Caches

oGreatly improved atomic memory operation performance

•NVIDIA GigaThreadTM Engine

o10x faster application context switching

oConcurrent kernel execution

oOut of order thread block execution

NVIDIA Technology

•NVIDIA SLI® technology—patented hardware and software technology allows up to

four NVIDIA GeForce GPUs to run in parallel to scale performance and enhance

image quality on today’s top games.

•NVIDIA PhysX™ technology—allows advanced physics effects to be simulated and

rendered on the GPU.

•NVIDIA 3D Vision™ Ready—GeForce GPU support for NVIDIA 3D Vision, bringing

a fully immersive stereoscopic 3D experience to the PC.

•NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround™ Ready—scale games across 3 panels by leveraging

the power of multiple GPUs in an NVIDIA SLI configuration. Combine with 3D Vision

technologyfor the ultimate 3 panel stereoscopic 3D gaming experience.

GPU Interfaces

•Designed for PCI Express 2.0 ×16 for a peak bandwidth (counting both directions) of

up to 20 gigabytes (GB) per second (PCIe 2.0 devices are backwards compatible

with PCI Express 1.x devices).

•Up to 384-bit GDDR5 memory interface (memory interface width may vary by model)

Advanced Display Functionality

•Two pipelines for dual independent display

•Two dual-link DVI outputs for digital flat panel display resolutions up to 2560×1600

•Dual integrated 400 MHz RAMDACs for analog display resolutions up to and

including 2048×1536 at 85 Hz

•HDMI 1.4a support including GPU accelerated Blu-ray 3D support, x.v.Color, HDMI

Deep Color, and 7.1 digital surround sound. See www.nvidia.com/3dtv for more

details.

•Displayport 1.1a support

•HDCP support up to 2560×1600 resolution on all digital outputs

•10-bit internal display processing, including support for 10-bit scanout

•Underscan/overscan compensation and hardware scaling

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Video

•NVIDIA® PureVideo® HD technology with VP4 programmable video processor

•Decode acceleration for MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile, H.264,

MVC, VC1, DivX (version 3.11 and later), and Flash (10.1 and later)

•Blu-ray dual-stream hardware acceleration (supporting HD picture-in-picture

playback)

•Advanced spatial-temporal de-interlacing

•Noise reduction

•Edge enhancement

•Bad edit correction

•Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)

•High-quality scaling

•Motion Compensation

•Video color correction

•Dynamic contrast enhancement and color stretch

Digital Audio

•Support for the following audio modes:

oDolby Digital (AC3), DTS 5.1, Multi-channel (7.1) LPCM, Dolby Digital Plus

(DD+), MPEG2/MPEG4 AAC

•Data rates of 44.1 KHz, 48 KHz, 88.2 KHz, 96 KHz, 176 KHz, and 192 KHz

•Word sizes of 16‐bit, 20‐bit, and 24‐bit

Power Management Technology

•Advanced power and thermal management for optimal acoustics, power, and

performance based on usage:

•ASPM power management

•Adaptive Clocking

•Adaptive Power States

•Advanced fan control

•Power and temperature monitoring

Operating Systems

•Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)

•Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)

•Windows XP (32-bit and 64-bit)

•Linux

•FreeBSD x86

Process Technology

•3.0 billion transistors in 40 nm process technology

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