XFX GeForce 7950 GT 570M Extreme

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According to our benchmarks for the overclocked XFX GeForce 7950 GT 570M Extreme, the Radeon X1900 XT 512MB was leagues ahead of the opposition in most benchmarks. That is only natural since the Radeon X1900 XT 512MB was meant to compete against the flagship GeForce 7900 GTX and its class. For most games and settings, we feel that the 256MB version should exert the same performance authority as the 512MB unit over the GeForce 7950 GT. Meanwhile, the minor speed boost from XFX's out of the box overclocking did little to distinguish it from the typical GeForce 7950 GT, which may partly be due to the reference card being highly tweaked. Instead, it is the rather daring move on XFX's part to make the graphics card passively cooled that should differentiate it from the rest. We must also admit that the lime green and black color scheme is a refreshing departure from the usual green NVIDIA boards. Despite the lack of LED lights, the XFX should still handily qualify as eye candy to most consumers.

Of course, the main advantage of the passive cooling is in its total absence of noise. This is however balanced by the slower heat dissipation of such a cooler. Adequate airflow is a must for this graphics card as we naturally found that temperatures naturally were higher than the reference card, though fortunately not excessively so. The readings we observed were within the safe limits though the heat is probably holding back our overclocking.