GTX 570 in 2021?

[draemn]

I have a GTX 570 that's been sitting in the house for years as an emergency/backup GPU and just wondering if there is any sense of trying to re-home it vs just throwing it out. A quick google search suggests that it needs to run real old drivers.

 

[Mr. Friendly]

definitely rehome it! you should be able to get around $200 for it.

 

[sswilson]

definitely rehome it! you should be able to get around $200 for it.

GTX 570, not RX 570. (If you know people who'd be willing to pay $200 for a 12 yr old vid card, please forward their contact info.... ).

As far as keep vrs trash....

UserBenchmark: Nvidia GT 1030 vs GTX 570

Looks like it performs better than a 1030 which is still a viable card for some use case scenarios so I'd say it was worth keeping.

 

[Lysrin]

I was wondering about that $200 sell price... I was thinking "sheesh I must be clueless about the value of things..."

 

[Soultribunal]

Heh,

I still have a ASUS GTX260 Matrix (which I won on here via a Folding Contest), an EVGA 9800GT (The One) and 2 PNY 9800GX2's from the good ol days.
Wonder if I could get any of them to even run now lol.

-ST

 

[sswilson]

And yeah, it's old drivers, but it's that final big drop that Nvidia did for W 10 before they dropped support. I can only suppose it's still a viable driver set.

 

[JD]

GTX 570, not RX 570. (If you know people who'd be willing to pay $200 for a 12 yr old vid card, please forward their contact info.... ).

Haha yeah I figured these Fermi cards were "worthless". I gave my GTX580 away a couple weeks ago.

 

[sswilson]

They might actually be more useful since Ryzen came out than prior. Some folks need GFX cards for their Ryzen procs since there's no IGP. (I'll be throwing a gt 1030 onto the ryzen build I'm putting together later this week).

 

[draemn]

GTX 570, not RX 570. (If you know people who'd be willing to pay $200 for a 12 yr old vid card, please forward their contact info.... ).

As far as keep vrs trash....

UserBenchmark: Nvidia GT 1030 vs GTX 570

Looks like it performs better than a 1030 which is still a viable card for some use case scenarios so I'd say it was worth keeping.

I really struggle with using userbenchmark. Not only have they been proven to be 100% lying about AMD vs Intel processor rankings, but I can't wrap my head around how they get their data and if it's accurate enough to trust. Well, sounds like it's usable for an emergency card in case I need to ever replace a defective GPU/etc. Not going to be able to do much gaming wise, but the drivers should allow potato gaming?

 

[sswilson]

The biggest issue with userbenchmark is that the top number is completely unlinked from performance numbers. They throw age, and market share into that top score.

I only use it for a quick look at the "effective performance" to get a general idea of how two pieces of hardware compare to each other.