NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570

One of the more popular Internet memes for the past couple of years has been, “Can it run Crysis?”, but as soon as Metro 2033 launched, that’s a meme that should have died. Metro 2033 is without question one of the beefiest games on the market, and though it supports DirectX 11, it’s almost a feature worth ignoring, because the extent you’ll need to go to in order to see playable framerates isn’t likely going to be worth it.

Manual Run-through: The level we use for testing is part of chapter 4, called “Child”, where we must follow a linear path through multiple corridors until we reach our end point, which takes a total of about 90 seconds. Please note that due to the reason mentioned above, we test this game in DX10 mode, as DX11 simply isn’t that realistic from a performance standpoint.

The performance of the GTX 570 is quite good here, with it running head-to-head with the GTX 480, which just a couple of months ago, was far more expensive. It still falls a bit behind the GTX 580, but that’s to be expected.

Like our other high-end parts, we had to decrease the detail level to medium in order to get playable framerates, in this case, 61 FPS.