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oh okay today we're going to be doing a length comparison between the gtx 570 and the gtx 580 so i have to msi cards here and i'm going to show you how they compare in terms of length well audience first of all why don't we have a look at the all new gtx 570 and we will discover that it is 10 and a half inches long and then we will look at the gtx 580 to discover that it is 10 and a half inches long so this reveals something very interesting about the gtx 570 and that is that it actually uses exactly the same cooler almost I I noticed one small difference between the coolers check this out guys okay so this is the 570 see how the aluminum fin comes up a little bit closer to the vent compared to the gtx 580 I don't even know if you guys can see that here I'll give you sort of a better perspective on it can you can you tell in the camera okay it's hard to tell in the camera but they do both use a vapor chamber cooler however it looks like the positioning of the fins or maybe the number of fins is slightly different so there there's a bit of intrigue for you alright other than that we have two 6-pin versus a 6-pin and an 8-pin pcie power connector and then you're going to find more differences on the back because even though they use here look at it this way even though they use the same PCB there's actually fewer things soldered to the gtx 570 PCB so you can see where the RAM chips are installed there's all kinds of little components soldered onto the back of the RAM chip so the gtx 570 which is here has that but not here so there's actually blank spots where they could have potentially installed more RAM chips used a higher bin GPU one that has more active functional units and that would be a 580 pretty much as long as they put an 8 pin power connector on it so they're very very similar cards basically you've just got lower memory bandwidth on the 570 less overall memory and then you've got a slightly cut down or lower Bend GPU and if you're not sure what i mean by binned or bidding you should check out the NCIX tech tips episode where we explained the process of bidding and how that works in the electronics industry