You know what day it is today?
Yup, that's right, 25th Jan - scheduled launch date for the 5xx series update to Nvidia's fantastic GTX 460.
Well it's happened. The GTX 560 Ti is here. The 460 was a very capable GPU (still is), very overclockable, and getting inredibly cheap now too.
So can the 560 live up to the hype? Read on to find out.
At stock, the 560 runs on a 820MHz core clock, 1GHz memory (4GHz effective), and 1.65GHz shader. Although, I'm expecting pretty decent overclocks, both from card manufacturers, and aftermarket, through the use of MSI's great little program - Afterburner.
It supports 2-way SLI, giving a maximum of four monitors, or 3 in Vision Surround. There is also support for 3D, something that Nvidia is really trying to push.
It's a 9" card, with an HDMI-c v1.4a slot and 2x Dual-link DVI's on one end, and 2x 6-pin PCI-e power connectors on the other.
Temperatures with the stock cooler are very impressive - just 8deg above ambient when idle, and 37deg above at load.
GTX 560 Ti cards are available now, for an MSRP of £199, but the cheapest on Scan is currently an overclocked model from MSI, at £203.47.
At low resolutions, there isn't an astounding difference between the 460/560, so the most exciting thing about this launch, could be the potential for GTX 460 768MB and 1GB prices to fall even further.
