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04/2011
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Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 560 Ti makes a strong push for the midrange graphics card crown, but savvy shoppers have a few options before them. Nvidia has been on something of a hot streak lately. Having spent the better part of a year in the shadow of AMD's 5800 series, and after a false start with the GeForce GTX 480 launch, we saw Nvidia's long-awaited Fermi architecture "done right" with the GeForce GTX 580. And again just a few weeks later, with the launch of the GeForce GTX 570. They aren't done yet. Launching today is Nvidia's GeForce GTX 560 Ti ($249, as of 1/25/2011). While the 570 and 580 sat at the upper echelons of graphics card category, the new GTX 560 Ti is aimed squarely at the mid-range market, where AMD's 6800 series holds sway. The GTX 560 pays homage to Nvidia's Titanium GPU line, resurrecting a fondly-remembered graphics card lineage. It's not meant to replace the GeForce GTX 460, but instead serve as a faster, slightly more expensive alternative. The GTX 560 Ti looks quite a bit like the rest of the 500 series. It's equipped with a pair of DVI-ports and a mini-HDMI port. It's also built on the Fermi architecture, but sports transistor-level tweaks to improve performance, and power consumption.
After renewing its high-end graphics cards with the impressive GTX 570 and GTX 580, NVIDIA has turned its attention to mid-range cards. It's therefore once again time for us to get out our dictionary of flattering adjectives, as the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is just as impressive as its high-end counterparts! At just 23 cm long, the GTX 560 Ti is quite a short card. It's therefore a shame that the two 6-pin power connectors are located on the bottom edge of the card and not on one of the sides, as with rigid cables, you'll have to count an extra 3 cm of space in the casing (26 cm in all) to make sure there's enough room for it. The various components are maintained at decent temperatures (27°C in 2D and 86°C in 3D) thanks to a central fan. Just like on the GTX 570, this is nice and quiet in both 2D and 3D. In 3D, you can definitely hear it working, but it's not loud enough to be distracting. We measure the total amount of power consumed from the mains—a value that takes into account all the components in our test computer. The result in 2D is excellent with a total of just 90 watts measured. In games, that soon rises to 320 watts, which is much better than a Radeon HD 6970 (263 W) but not as good as a Radeon HD 6950 (278 W).
Although we've seen plenty of good things from Nvidia's latest GeForce GTX 570 and 580, both cards are too pricey for the mainstream bracket as many gamers prefer to spend less than $300 on a GPU upgrade. For those folks, AMD is currently offering the Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850 graphics cards ($240 and $180, respectively) while Nvidia's solution consists of the 6-month-old GeForce GTX 460 768MB ($160) and 1GB ($200). It was only a matter of time until Nvidia added a mainstream performance graphics card to its GTX 500 series, and today we have that product. Known as the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, this new graphics card will retail for $250, placing it in direct competition with the Radeon HD 6870. Earlier this month some users discovered the GeForce GTX 560 Ti when sifting through the leaked 266.44 GeForce driver. The discovery of the upcoming graphics card in itself wasn't that interesting as we all knew it was coming. What did catch our attention was the departure from traditional naming conventions by resurrecting a suffix that has been dormant since the GeForce 4 Ti 4800 and Ti 4600. Those products date as back as 2002. The GeForce 4 Ti 4200 is perhaps the most remembered product from this family.
The graphics card dance continues to rumba on in the shape of Nvidia's GeForce GTX 560 Ti.It seems that pretty much every week of the last six months we've seen a new GPU design hit our desktops. If it isn't Nvidia refining and rolling out more and more spins of its rather speedy Fermi architecture it's AMD trying to keep pace with an opponent that had seemed to overtake it before rolling out its own brand new architecture.On the Nvidia side the GTX 480, the first Fermi card out of the green company, turned up less than a year ago and since then we've had ten different cards based on that architecture turn up. Possibly more, we've lost count to be honest what with the vast array of OEM cards it's spat out in the intervening time.Interestingly that long line of cards included rapid replacements of two of the first Fermi cards in the shape of the GTX 580 and then the GTX 570. Following on from that we've now got the GTX 560 Ti, essentially the direct replacement for the awesome GTX 460.Though that's not actually how it's running. The performance of the GTX 560 Ti actually means it's retiring the GTX 470 with the GTX 570 effectively retiring the GTX 480 and the GTX 580 just standing on it's own looking rather pleased with itself.
Nvidia has been on something of a hot streak lately. Having spent the better part of a year in the shadow of AMD's 5800 series, and after a false start with the GeForce GTX 480 launch, we saw Nvidia's long-awaited Fermi architecture "done right" with the GeForce GTX 580. And again just a few weeks later, with the launch of the GeForce GTX 570. They aren't done yet. Launching today is Nvidia's GeForce GTX 560 Ti ($249, as of 1/25/2011). While the 570 and 580 sat at the upper echelons of graphics card category, the new GTX 560 Ti is aimed squarely at the mid-range market, where AMD's 6800 series holds sway. The GTX 560 pays homage to Nvidia's Titanium GPU line, resurrecting a fondly-remembered graphics card lineage. It's not meant to replace the GeForce GTX 460, but instead serve as a faster, slightly more expensive alternative. The GTX 560 Ti looks quite a bit like the rest of the 500 series. It's equipped with a pair of DVI-ports and a mini-HDMI port. It's also built on the Fermi architecture, but sports transistor-level tweaks to improve performance, and power consumption. The GTX 560 Ti has been purposefully matched up against AMD's 6800 series of graphics cards -- namely, the Radeon HD 6850 ($180) and Radeon HD 6870 ($219).
Nvidia stormed the mainstream video card market last summer when it released the GeForce GTX 460, a surprisingly potent performer with a lean $200 price. But when you redefine normal, what do you do the next time around? That's the trap into which Nvidia has fallen with its new GTX 560 Ti. This $249 (list) gaming card competes very well with AMD's own similarly priced offerings, in terms of both gaming performance and power usage, but is a less-compelling value than the still-available GTX 460. If it's been a few years since you upgraded, the GTX 560 Ti is good enough to be worth a look, but you shouldn't consider this the first must-have video card of 2011. For most intents and purposes, the GTX 560 Ti is a down-the-line update of the GTX 460 and GTX 465 low-end-enthusiast cards, along the lines of the relationship between the GTX 580 and the GTX 570 and their predecessors: relatively minor technology tweaks rather than full-scale rethinkings. (The "Ti" portion of its name is even a throwback to Nvidia card names from eight or so years ago.)
Titanium. It's a lightweight, yet relatively strong metal that conjures up images of sleek airplanes or powerful spacecraft. It's used in a multitude of different machines and tools, from the Boeing 777 to surgical implants, where high tensile strength, low weight, and strong resistance to corrosion and high temperatures are desired. To us computer geeks though, Titanium, or more specifically its chemical symbol ‘Ti', takes us back almost a decade to the release of NVIDIA's GeForce 4 Ti series of graphics cards with its whopping 128MB frame buffers and the flagship Ti 4600 model's impressive 10.4GB/s of memory bandwidth. Wow, time sure flies when you're evaluating graphics cards. But, we digress... The reason we bring up the GeForce 4 Ti is that NVIDIA is resurrecting the Ti moniker with a new GPU targeting mainstream market segments, dubbed the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. If you've been on top of the graphics space the last few months, you'll no doubt be aware that NVIDIA recently introduced the GeForce GTX 580 and 570, which feature the GF110 GPU; an updated version of the GF100 which arrived with the GeForce GTX 480.
With the release of the newest high performance cards, like GTX 580 and 570, which utilize a redesigned and optimized GF110 chip, NVIDIA was able to take the crown for the production of the fastest and quietest single GPU cards in the world. Both the GTX 580 and 570 were able to excel in performance, and the GTX 480 with its GF100 chip became obsolete. Unlike the GF100 chip, which had 512 CUDA cores but was able to utilize only 480, the GF110 lives up to it full potential and uses all 512 CUDA cores. The GTX 560 Ti is also quipped with 8 PolyMorph Engines dedicated to tesselation and additional raster engines that covert polygonal shapes to pixel fragments to allow faster culling. The successful release of GTX 580 and 570 has left many gaming ethusiasts wondering about the release date of lower-budget high performance GTX 560. Its predecessor, the GTX 460, was a tremendous success, providing excellent performance at a significantly lower price than GTX 470 or 480. We gave the GTX 460 in SLI our Golden Bear Award and Best Bang For the Buck Award. As of January 25, 2011 NVIDIA is officially releasing the GTX 560 Ti. In designing the GTX 560 Ti, NVIDIA tried to create a graphics card that would demonstrate devastating power and lighting fast speed packed in a light body.
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MSI N560GTX-TIM2D1GD5/OC GeForce GTX 560 Graphic Card - 1 GB GDDR5 SDRAM - 4008 MHz Memory Clock - Fan Cooler - HDMI - DVI - VGA | $213.99 | See it |
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1GB MSI GeForce GTX560 TI OC DDR5 2DVI/Mini HDMI PCI-Express Video Card N560GTXTIM2D1GD5OC | $246.84 | See it |
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MSI - Micro Star N560GTX-TI M2D1GD5-OC GeForce GTX 560 Ti Fermi 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card | $283.47 | See it |
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Intel Core I7 2600k 3.4ghz Quad Core Nvidia Gtx560ti Gaming Computer 8gb Ddr3 | $1199.99 | See it |
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Intel Core I7 2600k 3.4ghz Quad Core Nvidia Gtx560ti Gaming Computer Storm Scout | $1249.99 | See it |
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Intel Core I7 3770k 3.5ghz Quad Core Nvidia Gtx560ti Gaming Computer Antec 900 | $1309.99 | See it |
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Intel Core I7 3770k 3.5ghz Quad Core Nvidia Gtx560ti Gaming Computer Storm Scout | $1309.99 | See it |
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Intel Core I7 3770k 3.5ghz Quad Core Nvidia Gtx560ti Gaming Computer Phantom 410 | $1309.99 | See it |