TAKE OFF YOUR TI WITH THE NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 REVIEW

Nvidia strips the Ti moniker and- the little opening from the GeForce GTX 560 Ti in sequence to emanate the brand brand brand brand new lesser-priced model. Can the company’s GeForce GTX 560 mount up to AMD’s renouned Radeon HD 6870, or does it tumble reduced of the worth mark?

 

Nvidia and- AMD go to good lengths to have certain they suggest an pick to any singular the singular of their competitor's products. No cost indicate gets dominated by the singular graphics label for really long.

 

Cases in point: Nvidia not long ago launched the GeForce GTX 550 Ti to contest with the Radeon HD 5770/6770, and- AMD only introduced the Radon HD 6790 to contest with Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 460 768 MB.

 

Today, Nvidia throws an additional conservative jab: GeForce GTX 560. Note the miss of the 'Ti' designation. The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is pitted opposite AMD’s Radeon HD 6950 1 GB. So, this new- product is unfailing to do conflict with the somewhat cheaper Radeon HD 6870, the label which exists for rounded off $200 online.

 

How just does Nvidia spin the GeForce GTX 560 Ti in to the GeForce GTX 560? Yes, it involves some-more than stealing the suffix. Its GF114 ASIC ends up receiving the slight violence from the Nerf bat.

 

That is to contend Nvidia disables the singular Streaming Multiprocessor (SM). The GeForce GTX 560 operates regulating 7 of GF114's 8 SMs. Each functioning SM has 48 shader cores, 4 dispatch units, as good as 8 hardness units. All 4 64-bit ROP partitions have been enabled, any able of doing 8 32-bit integer pixels per time cycle. As the result, the GeForce GTX 560 has 336 shader cores, 56 hardness units, and- 32 ROPs, with the 256-bit mental recall interface.

 

If those specs receptive to advice vaguely familiar, that’s since they're the same as Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 460 1 GB. It creates sense; after all, the GF114 is functionally matching to GF104. It was simply reworked to broach aloft clocks whilst regulating reduction power. With this in mind, we competence pretence which GeForce GTX 560 is dictated to reinstate the GeForce GTX 460. But there’s the singular some-more non-static to consider: time rates. The anxiety GeForce GTX 460 has the 675 MHz core and- 900 MHz GDDR5 memory. But GeForce GTX 560 sports an 810 MHz core and- 1002 MHz memory—much closer to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti's 822/1022 MHz core and- mental recall combination.

 

Now, we all recollect which the GeForce GTX 460 beam incredibly good when it gets overclocked. So, we design the GeForce GTX 560 to give AMD’s Radeon HD 6870 the run for the money. Speaking of the competition, let's cruise the similarly-priced options:

	GeForce GTX 460 1 GB	GeForce GTX 560 1 GB	GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1 GB	Radeon HD 6870 1 GB
Shader Cores	336	336	384	1120
Texture Units	56	56	64	56
Full Color ROPs	32	32	32	32
Graphics Clock	675 MHz	810 MHz	822 MHz	900 MHz
Shader Clock	1350 MHz	1620 MHz	1644 MHz	N/A
Memory Clock	900 MHz	1002 MHz	1002 MHz	1050 MHz
GDDR5 Memory	1 GB	1 GB	1 GB	1 GB
Memory Interface	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth	115.2 GB/s	128.2 GB/s	128.2 GB/s	134.4 GB/s
Texture Filtering Rate	37.8 GTex/s	45.4 GTex/s	52.5 GTex/s	50.4 GTex/s
Connectors	2 x DL-DVI, 1 x mini-HDMI	2 x DL-DVI, 1 x mini-HDMI	2 x DL-DVI, 1 x mini-HDMI	2 x DVI, 1 x HDMI, 2 x DisplayPort
Form Factor	Dual-slot	Dual-slot	Dual-slot	Dual-slot
Power Connectors	2 x 6-pin	2 x 6-pin	2 x 6-pin	2 x 6-pin
Recommended Power Supply	450 W	450 W	500 W	500 W
Thermal Design Power	160 W	160 W	170 W	151 W

The draft creates it simpler to see which GeForce GTX 560 is radically the GeForce GTX 460 overclocked to GeForce GTX 560 Ti levels.

 

Nvidia didn’t yield the anxiety house for this launch. Instead, it destined us to the integrate of the house partners. We have dual cards in the lab for this introduction: Zotac’s GeForce GTX 560 AMP! Edition and- Asus’ GTX 560 DirectCU II TOP.

 

Nvidia's New 275.20 Driver

In further to the brand brand brand brand new graphics card, Nvidia is additionally receiving value of today’s launch to deliver the subsequent GeForce motorist iteration. In further to the common claims of opening increases—specifically for Crysis 2, Portal 2, and- Bulletstorm—there have been the little engaging new- facilities included.

 

You might be informed with the refurbish notifications enclosed in the 270-series drivers, where you’re told when the brand brand brand brand new motorist is accessible for download. According to Nvidia, over 90% of users with which motorist opt to capacitate this feature. In the new- 275.20 release, SLI as good as AA updates can be set to automatically download. Then, we can see which updates were commissioned by seeking during the story add-on in the motorist carry out panel. 3D Vision profiles have been scheduled to be combined in the destiny motorist revision, though Nvidia didn't dedicate to the date for this.

 

Speaking of 3D Vision, there have been additionally couple of enhancements enclosed in the driver. More than 525 diversion profiles have been right away included, the 3D Photo spectator right away has windowed support, and- the Portal 2 form is tweaked to repair the little issues, so the diversion right away carries an Excellent rating.

 

 

 

Nvidia additionally ties in improvements to the driver's desktop scaling options. The new- interface shows the much-needed preview of what we can design to see after picking brand brand brand brand new settings. Moreover, there’s an choice to overrule diversion settings for Windows 7, an OS which has the bad robe of ignoring motorist settings in the past. Nvidia dedicated poignant bid to running users by disabling overscan upon their televisions. And- where overscan cannot be disabled, the motorist creates the custom-resized fortitude with 1:1 pixel mapping, in further to resizing customary resolutions for games which do not await law values.

Patrick 01 Jun, 2011

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