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at long last here is my performance review for the GTX 570 which I never did one for as well as AMD's new radio on 6900 series graphics card so that's the 69 70 which I have on my test bench right now I'm running Battlefield Bad Company 2 for my my sort of pre premeditated run-through that I do on all of the cards to get you guys some fraps recorded results so I have the 69 70 I have the 69 50 here I've also got on the g4 side the green side the GTX 570 as well as the GTX 580 and then I've included in my graphs the 68 70 as well as a hawk Edition GTX 460 so that should give you guys some some sort of a measuring stick against a performance series card so like a 460 or 68 70 versus one of these enthusiast grade cards including the 6900 series as well as the gtx 500 series so the games that i'm going to be showing today are metro 2033 Battlefield Bad Company 2 3d mark 11 which is not a game technically as well as the heaven benchmark and I will be running all of them at 1080p oh yeah Crysis 2 and running at fairly high detail settings that means I have enabled anti-aliasing in all tests and the idea was to really stress these cards so at the settings I was running in Metro 2033 actually both the 60 and 70 and the GTX 460 are were what I consider to fail like it was 14 frames per second I could measure frames per second but it was just too choppy completely unplayable so anyway stay tuned for boring charts and graphs and other things coming soon so other than straight performance let's talk a bit of a feature comparison between the green team and the red team for this particular generation of products so there's a few different things that are similar first of all these are both DirectX 11 graph cards with beefy tessellation performance support for all the latest standards and all of that noise and hoo-hah okay so they are both feature complete now we have had times in the past when one company actually has a more advanced product than the other for example AMD was ahead of Nvidia for DirectX 11 and in video was way ahead of AMD for DirectX 10 but we're not in a situation like that right now so the feature differences that we actually run into are some different things so first of all AMD has their Eyefinity technology you can see they have a good number of outputs on the back of their card to DVI to mini DisplayPort one mini rather one HDMI and that is what enables AMD as well as some special configuration the card to run up to four displays off of a single card with Eyefinity so that means you could do three displays with your processor in the middle middle peripheral vision and then you could have like your your chat on another screen above it or whatever you want to do or you can even run just three displays off one card for triple HD resolution off of one card now to counter that NVIDIA has their Nvidia surround which isn't quite there compared to infinity because you do need two cards so if you run SLI on any supported GPU which includes anything back to as far as I know the GTX 275 ESO has a couple other features including their 3d vision okay so I have the glasses up here and this is actually a 3d vision ready monitor so you can play in stereoscopic 3d mind you AMD also has they're competing HD 3d now so while you have to bear in mind that both of these approaches are slightly different with Nvidia you're bound to certain standardized components including the glasses and the displays the AMD approach is a little bit different in that you are not bound to a standard there are a bunch of different ways to go about it but not all of them are created equal finally last but not least we have CUDA and physics on the nvidia side as well as full support for direct compute on the AMD side so these are both a couple of competing standards and it really remains to be seen which one is going to emerge as victorious so you kind of have to take a road and walk down it at this point and hope you made the right choice so that is my feature summary they both oh yeah of course they both support SLI crossfire multi-gpu configurations well they don't support both support SLI this one supports SLI and they don't both support crossfire only this one does but they both support 2a and 3a GPU configurations except on their performance grade cards so that is on the enthusiast grade card support up to three-way but you can see both of the performance grade cards I have here that is the GTX 460 as well as the Radeon 6870 only have a single multi-gpu connector each so those ones only support two-way multi-gpu configurations graphs to come crazy Russian also brought to my attention that the Radeon 6000 series also supports adaptive anti-aliasing and I missed one feature that they both have and that is support for HDMI 1.4 a which enables you to play back 3d blu-ray with supported software and display you so in conclusion I'm not really going to declare there to be a winner because I think it's a bit of a mistake for graphics card reviews because what happens is these guys are both so competitive AMD and NVIDIA that as soon as the market condition changes they'll both be adjusting their strategies and their pricing structures in order to compete better with each other so all you really need to do is look at the performance and I do recommend checking out written reviews in addition to any video reviews you might see because quite frankly a lot of the written reviews have a lot more time spent on crunching the numbers and getting into the nitty-gritty of the technology so check out for example the review on hardware canucks that is WWE Hardware comics calm the GPU review guy over there is a total guru so please do check them out and so yeah I'm not going to declare a winner because what you really have to do is whether you're watching this video right now we're watching it six months down the road you can look at these cards and compare them in terms of their performance but you also have to bear in mind the price so you'll have to just see what are the prices at that time and how do they stack up against each other when you factor in the bang for the buck aspect of the equation so thanks for checking out my - tech tips review of the gtx 570 as well as the radians 6900 series and don't forget to subscribe to - tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other videos