Friday, September 30th 2011
ELSA Unveils Compact GeForce GTX 560 Ti Graphics Card
As the market for compact PCs grows, so will the push to make them faster. In space-congested mini-ITX form-factor cases, you're more likely to face a crunch with the length of addon-cards the case can accommodate, than its height (whether it's low-profile or full-height). To address this, Japansese graphics card manufacturer ELSA unveiled its latest GeForce GTX 560 Ti based graphics card, which uses a much shorter PCB (lengthwise).
Called the ELSA Gladiac GTX 560 Ti Mini, the card provides a reasonably powerful GPU that's game for 1080p gaming, in a compact form-factor. The PCB's length is 59 mm less than that of NVIDIA reference PCB. It uses a heat-pipe fed fan-heatsink assembly that uses a 80 mm fan to ventilate a dense aluminum fin array. The card uses clock speeds of 822 MHz, 1644 MHz, and 4008 MHz (core/CUDA cores/memory effective). It features 1 GB of GDDR5 memory over a 256-bit wide memory interface. It can pair with any other GTX 560 Ti card in 2-way SLI configuration. It will make its way to markets next week.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
Called the ELSA Gladiac GTX 560 Ti Mini, the card provides a reasonably powerful GPU that's game for 1080p gaming, in a compact form-factor. The PCB's length is 59 mm less than that of NVIDIA reference PCB. It uses a heat-pipe fed fan-heatsink assembly that uses a 80 mm fan to ventilate a dense aluminum fin array. The card uses clock speeds of 822 MHz, 1644 MHz, and 4008 MHz (core/CUDA cores/memory effective). It features 1 GB of GDDR5 memory over a 256-bit wide memory interface. It can pair with any other GTX 560 Ti card in 2-way SLI configuration. It will make its way to markets next week.
18 Comments on ELSA Unveils Compact GeForce GTX 560 Ti Graphics Card
Cases like the Lian-Li Q08 won't need to sacrifice HDD bays with this card.
But I would really like to start seeing new GPU's with thunderbolt outputs. A great way to "recycle" those PCIex16 lanes when not being used by graphics...
Not sure what the costing would look like. A basic multiplexer chip plus a port. Probably no more expensive if the HDMI or one of the DVI ports was ditched. It would certainly help to differentiate a model or brand from the competition. I would buy the "thunderbolt 560 Ti" over a standard 560Ti.
Current thunderbolt products are just the Apple Display, LaCie External HDD, Promise Pegasus R4 RAID storage. But if Intel pushed thunderbolt onto the PC platform, I'm sure many many products would appear.
this should be the definition of compact :
Also Palit's 560ti are pretty compact.