Monday, January 17th 2011
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 Ti Graphics Card Pictured
Here are the first pictures of a Gigabyte branded NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti graphics card. Carrying the model number GV-N560OC-1GI, Gigabyte's card is based on the 40 nanometer GF114 GPU, featuring 384 CUDA cores, and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory. The card itself doesn't look much different from some of Gigabyte's GTX 460 graphics cards. This can be attributed to the rumor that GF114 is pin-compatible with GF104, to minimize R&D costs partners have to incur. They would probably just have to use the new GPU and its appropriate BIOS.
Being an "OC" marked model, Gigabyte's card could feature factory-overclocked speeds. Taking this and the GPU itself into account, Gigabyte claims its GTX 560 Ti card to be competitive with Radeon HD 6950. The card uses Gigabyte's Ultra Durable VGA construction which combines a copper-rich PCB with high-quality components, and is cooled by the company's in-house design WindForce2X GPU cooler that uses a large aluminum fin heatsink using two fans.
Update (01/18): Gigabyte commented on this article. The company outright denied to have anything to do with whatever is in those pictures, and alleged it to be some kind of a "malicious attack" on it. In a statement, it said: "the information is false and the data is simulated from our old card. The picture is incorrect and was obviously photoshopped from our previous GTX460 model. The GTX560 card looks nothing like pictured on the article. We have good reason to believe this is a malicious attack."
Source:
Escdigi.Taobao.com
Being an "OC" marked model, Gigabyte's card could feature factory-overclocked speeds. Taking this and the GPU itself into account, Gigabyte claims its GTX 560 Ti card to be competitive with Radeon HD 6950. The card uses Gigabyte's Ultra Durable VGA construction which combines a copper-rich PCB with high-quality components, and is cooled by the company's in-house design WindForce2X GPU cooler that uses a large aluminum fin heatsink using two fans.
Update (01/18): Gigabyte commented on this article. The company outright denied to have anything to do with whatever is in those pictures, and alleged it to be some kind of a "malicious attack" on it. In a statement, it said: "the information is false and the data is simulated from our old card. The picture is incorrect and was obviously photoshopped from our previous GTX460 model. The GTX560 card looks nothing like pictured on the article. We have good reason to believe this is a malicious attack."
53 Comments on Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 Ti Graphics Card Pictured
Since they are claiming it's competitive with the 6950, pricing is going to be around £200 (probably less than $300)?
www.fudzilla.com/graphics/item/21566-gigabyte-to-have-two-overclocked-gtx-560-ti-cards
It's Fudzilla quoting some chinese etailer so take with a grain of salt. But if true Nvidia may have a real winner there:
stock 560 Ti vs HD6950
OC 560 Ti vs HD6970
SOC 560 ti vs HD6970 OC
edit: ^^ performance wise. manufacturing costs are far chaper for the 560 Ti, reason for which I think Nidia might have a real winner.
The price for the OC and SOC is $290 and $320 according to the link above. That would probably mean ~$250 for stock clocked cards.
Now, If I can find a decent Micro-ATx 1156 board.. lol
And in reality the GTX560 Ti was meant to replace the GTX460 in the market, only the fact that it will be able to touch/beat the HD69xx has made them release it in a different market segment. It's almost the same chip, just fixed, just get ridden of the manufacturing mistakes* that made GTX4xx cards fail to meet the expectations. We can say the same about the GTX580, with the GTX560 it shares the fact that it's merely just a fixed chip from the previous generation. It was meant to replace the GTX480 in the market segment, but since AMD cannot touch it Nvidia can sell them at a higher price. GTX560 brings the opportunity for Nvidia to compete with the HD6950, in 6950's market segment, with a chip that is 20% smaller and significantly cheaper to produce. Tell me that 3 months ago and I'd have told you to stfu and paid you a ticket to Lalaland, land of unicorns and rainbows...
Even still most of us thought that the GTX560 would only be able to compete in a stock vs stock basis, because clocked at 820 Mhz, it looked like it had been left with a very limited OC potential (because of comparisons with GTX460), maybe maxing out at 900 Mhz on stock voltages (a bit more than what GTX460 is capable of). If the info at Fudzilla is true, no such thing is true and it's quite the opposite, actually. Once overclocked it will compete even better against HD69xx than it does on stock.
* Just imagine if those two Nvidia teams had worked together and had not made those mistakes in the first place. The GTX580 would have been released in November 2009 (under GTX480 name of course) and the GTX560 (ahem 460) would have been released somewhere in Q1 2010. Headlines would have been soooo different. :laugh:
I just bought a 6850 for £130 inc p+p so if the new gtx560 is better plus around say £150 that will suck for those that have the 6850 or even just recently got a gtx460. Doubt it will be that cheap though.
Only will compete with 6950 1GB, and won't beat it, at the best case they will trade blows.
GTX 560 Ti can't even touch 6970 because it will then cannibalize GTX 570.
the pic says OPENGL 3.2 ???
opengl 4 was for gf400 and above as i understand.
After seeing this new 560 I feel safe enough to say that I'm not in anyway envious of this new next generation, especially since I have two 460s which will last long enough for me. :D
I don't see any Ti moniker added to that Gigabyte box tho. Its the same box my 460 came in cept with 560 lettering.
But I dont like the 450W :(I don't think it is such a big deal
New features of OpenGL 4.1 include:
Full compatibility with OpenGL ES 2.0 APIs for easier porting between mobile and desktop platforms >> Not a feature or performance benefit - just simpler coding/development for the mobile market
The ability to query and load a binary for shader program objects to save re-compilation time >> Potentially useful, but I that doesnt help performance in any existing code/games
The capability to bind programs individually to programmable stages for programming flexibility >> I think this is more of a CUDA enhancement and making a OpenGL 4.1 compliance board also capable of more efficient OpenCL libraries. Doesnt affect any existing code/games
64-bit floating-point component vertex shader inputs for higher geometric precision >> OUCH. That will be a performance killer and probably more important in the CAD/medical market
Multiple viewports for a rendering surface for increased rendering flexibility >> Interesting feature basically allowing hardware 3D rather than having to do it via software/driver enhancement
While OpenGL 4.x is a continuous improvement, and I like that, is seems that the feature set isnt going to significantly change what a PC enthusiast/gamer can expect. It seems quite targeted at specialised markets. Perhaps the 3D is interesting for us though! (multiple viewports).
Compare these charts to look at the difference (~10%):
And here is a chart that I made that demostrates the performance that the GTX560 will have based on it's characteristics:
First the resume: performance icrease on Fermi cards is almost linear (+/- 2%) as their GFlops rise, as can be seen in the small chart below (performance numbers taken from W1zzard's HD6950 chart above):
GTS450 | 46 | 47.74
GTX465 | 72 | 67.86
GTX460 | 73 | 72.03
GTX470 | 89 | 86.36
GTX560 | ? | 100.00
GTX570 | 109 | 111.59
GTX480 | 108 | 106.86
GTX580 | 125 | 125.53
Here's the complete chart, just in case you want to check the math or if you want to check how, effectively, Fermi cards' performace is pretty much only based on relative GFlops (Gflops = 2*SP number*shader clock):
GTS450 | 783 | 192 | 601.34 | 47.74 | 16 | 12.53 | 47.74 | 3608 | 128 | 57.73 | 45.10 | 32 | 25.06 | 47.74
GTX465 | 607 | 352 | 854.66 | 67.86 | 32 | 19.42 | 74.02 | 3206 | 256 | 102.59 | 80.15 | 44 | 26.71 | 50.89
GTX460 1GB | 675 | 336 | 907.20 | 72.03 | 32 | 21.60 | 82.32 | 3600 | 256 | 115.20 | 90.00 | 56 | 37.80 | 72.03
GTX470 | 607 | 448 | 1,087.74 | 86.36 | 40 | 24.28 | 92.53 | 3348 | 320 | 133.92 | 104.63 | 56 | 33.99 | 64.77
GTX560 | 820 | 384 | 1,259.52 | 100.00 | 32 | 26.24 | 100.00 | 4000 | 256 | 128.00 | 100.00 | 64 | 52.48 | 100.00
GTX570 | 732 | 480 | 1,405.44 | 111.59 | 40 | 29.28 | 111.59 | 3800 | 320 | 152.00 | 118.75 | 60 | 43.92 | 83.69
GTX480 | 701 | 480 | 1,345.92 | 106.86 | 48 | 33.65 | 128.23 | 3696 | 384 | 177.41 | 138.60 | 60 | 42.06 | 80.14
GTX580 | 772 | 512 | 1,581.06 | 125.53 | 48 | 37.06 | 141.22 | 4008 | 384 | 192.38 | 150.30 | 64 | 49.41 | 94.15