nVidia GTX560 Ti Review
Introduction and Technical Specifications
Published: 25th January 2011 | Source: nVidia | Price: £199 @ Aria |
Introduction
The turnaround in the fortunes of nVidia, at least from a consumers point of view, is so remarkable that you'll forgive us if we state it once again, because to be honest we're almost endlessly surprised.
In Summer 2009, despite some rumblings from those who saw the world as green, we wholeheartedly recommended ATI products throughout the whole price spectrum. If you were after either a reasonably priced office system, or a great value gaming system, all the way up to a full-on beast of a rig ATI had everything covered from a HD5770 to the HD5970. Once you included the possibility of running in Crossfire there really was no need to look at the over-priced, under-performing storage heaters with an nVidia badge.
But oh my how things have changed. The GTX580 was released and although it was priced definitely at the enthusiast market it is unbelievably powerful. The GTX570 is even better being considerably cheaper but having the capability to overclock up to GTX580 levels. It's easily the best graphics card for the "normal" people on the planet.
We waited with baited breath for the AMD response and it was, shall we say misguided. With the curious decision to alter their naming convention just enough to introduce confusion across the marketplace, and then release products that seemed to be the tiniest increment better than those they replaced there seemed to be a lot of laurel-resting going on in Sunnyvale, CL.
Now fresh to the OC3D Test Bench is the little brother to the big behemoths, the GTX560. Today we're looking at the Ti variant which reminds us of the fabulous GeForce 3 and GeForce 4 cards that had Ti versions.
So have nVidia completed the clean sweep of the graphics market or is this a reduction too far?
Technical Specifications
| Model | GeForce GTX560 Ti |
| ROPs | 32 |
| Shaders | 384 |
| Pixel Fillrate | 33.6 GB/s |
| Memory Size | 1024 MB |
| Memory Bandwidth | 140.8 GB/s |
| GPU Clock | 823 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1002 MHz |
Let's take a look at the new card up close.
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thanks for the input oneseraph, i mean at the moment im only running 1920x1200 but 3d surround does look pretty tasty!!! so some new monitors maybe the next big ticket item. and with the 570's i can keep my option open for 3(or even 4) way sli, but DAYM 1ghz clock?!? and 130 quid is a lot of coin for similiar kit(at current res)
Ya, once you make the move to multi-monitor, you will never look back...
I use a pair of LG's at the moment. Around the end of march, I plan to build a new rig. I am thinking of making the jump to a triple monitor setup. The new Asus PA246Q ProArt Series sound pretty good. Hopefully they won't be ridiculously expensive. In any case, best of luck with your setup.
Cheers
Copper corrodes extremely slowly in air, unless there is a catalyst which in this instance the oils on your fingers. Also when it comes to copper corrosion it tends to be quite superficial so I doubt it will make too much of a difference,
Yer Wont make huge difference in the first ten years lol. Just feels bit substandard for a luxury style card.
im looking at a couple new cards, should i go 2 gtx 570's or 2 560's?
What screen size
@CH4PZ 3D surround isn't really mature yet, so 570s would be better, since SLI won't scale too well so the more powerful GPUs will fair better.
yeah i think i will go 570's!! i dont like the thought of not being able to go anywhere with the 560 setup, wheres with 570's i've got a few options, and i will be able to afford it(for a change, lol) cheers for ya help everyone
but still ya gotta take ya hat off to the baby brother cracking the 1 ton clock speed
They will actually have to cut the price so the performance lines up, not in synthetic benchmarks, but also in gaming benchmarks, so a 6970 needs to drop down to a price that's comparable with a 560 if they want remain competitive.
..Except the 6970 beats the 560 on every review I've seen. In fact, it beats it so thoroughly that the reviewers usually choose to use the 6950, and it still beats the 560 in every http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-560-ti-review/14 review http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-560-ti-gf114,2845-6.html I've seen http://www.anandtech.com/show/4135/nvidias-geforce-gtx-560-ti-upsetting-the-250-market/11 ..except this one.
"At stock speeds" "It walks past the 6950" "walks past the 6970.." I'm not seeing that in any review. Every other review I've read of this card it's a disappointment for it's price. Granted, I'm a US reader and most of these reviews are speaking of the US prices. That doesn't change his assessment of the performance.
I'm a huge Nvidia fan, at the moment. The problems I had with the 5xxx series.. ugh. I don't want to go back to that. Fair is fair however, and the 6950 is the better card. In OC3Ds defense, the charts actually disagree with TTLs assessment in the video. The stock 6970 beats the stock 560 quite handily.
In other words, Nvidia needs to drop the price of the 560 relative to the performance of the 6950.
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I M HAVING A TOUGH TIME ABOUT DECIDING WHETHER I SHUD GO FOR 2 OF EITHER OF THESE OR A GTX 570?I WILL BE GAMING AT 1920X1080
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thanks for the input oneseraph, i mean at the moment im only running 1920x1200 but 3d surround does look pretty tasty!!! so some new monitors maybe the next big ticket item. and with the 570's i can keep my option open for 3(or even 4) way sli, but DAYM 1ghz clock?!? and 130 quid is a lot of coin for similiar kit(at current res)