The latest 5-series card from Nvidia arrives in the shape of the GTX 560, and Zotac, Gainward, Leadtek and more are right there with product at launch.
Nvidia's just announced its latest Fermi card, the shiny new GTX 560.
It's a slight step down in power from the recently released 560 Ti, but also comes at a cheaper price. Current RRP is set from $US199, which - assuming we don't get slugged witht the usual Downunder Tax - should make for a good value card.
All the usual suspects will be shipping the card, but we've already gotten details on Zotac, Palit, Gainward and Leadtek's efforts. Gainward's three cards are typical of what most vendors are delivering:
Gainward GeForce GTX 560 Series Specifications
Product Name
GAINWARD GeForce GTX 560 2GB
GAINWARD GeForce GTX 560 1GB “Phantom”
GAINWARD GeForce GTX 560 1GB ”Golden-Sample”
Chipset
NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 560
Stream Processor Units
336 CUDA cores
Core Clock
810 MHz
822 MHz
Shader Clock
1,620 MHz
1,645 MHz
Memory Clock
2,004 MHz (DDR 4,008MHz)
2,020 MHz (DDR 4,040MHz)
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Size
2,048 MB
1,024 MB
Memory Width
256-bit
Output Ports
Dual dual-link DVI, HDMI, VGA
DVI-I, HDMI, VGA
Bus Interface
PCI-Express 2.0
All versions of the card will support CUDA, PhysX and DX 11.
Also announced today is a new R725 beta driver, which boosts performance and brings new functionality across a range of games:
So there's a huge amount of 3D support, but we're curious - who out there actually games in 3D?
Issue: 137 | June, 2012