Last Thoughts

The GeForce GTX 560 Titanium fills an important price bracket for Nvidia at $250 as this segment was last serviced past the aging GTX 470. Compared to the board IT is replacing, gamers can expect a 9% performance boost on median with the GeForce GTX 560 Ti.

Unnecessary to be said, GeForce GTX 470 owners North Korean won't be rushing to steal a unweathered GTX 560 Ti in hopes of gaining a little performance. However, let's not forget the GTX 470 debuted less than a twelvemonth ago for $350, so users that are more than a generation buns will undergo a nice total boost when picking a new mainstream graphics card.

The GTX 560 Ti's price and performance makes sense when compared to the incoming come ou, the GeForce GTX 570. On median, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti was ~17% slower while we expect it to cost 30% less. From a value perspective this is a very acceptable tradeoff, specially for those unwilling to pass $350 on a graphics lineup.

Piece the Radeon HD 6870 was meant to be the GeForce GTX 560 Ti match, AMD has cooked the inevitable and adjusted pricing to decrease the impact the new-sprung GeForce card launch could wear competitive products. With that, the Radeon HD 6950 1GB tin be had for a mere $10 extra. Before the change the GeForce GTX 560 Ti was ~17% cheaper and equitable 6% slower. Now the price difference is negligible and the carrying out difference remains small for the most part.

When compared to the Radeon HD 6870, the GeForce GTX 560 Te was along average 9% faster, simply AMD has reduced their card's pricing to $219. It's also worth mentioning that while the GeForce GTX 560 Ti was overall quicker than the Radeon HD 6870, IT was less efficient, consuming 24% to a greater extent power.

The trump add-in for Nvidia is the impressive overclocking potential of the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. Without any voltage modifications we were healthy to push the GPU absolute frequency from 822MHz to 1010MHz. That striking 188MHz bump provided GeForce GTX 570-like performance, something that isn't possible to achieve with competing graphics cards such as the Radeon HD 6870. The Radeon HD 6870 is already being pushed hard with a default frequency of 900MHz and we are simply fit to addition that by 50MHz without touching the card's electromotive force.

With the Radeon HD 6870 now selling for $219 and if the GeForce GTX 560 Ti does recruit the market at $250, we feel that AMD could be gambling the brackets successfully, putt themselves in a obedient position below and above Nvidia's new mainstream offering.

The race between the 3-month-nonagenarian Radeon HD 6870 and the new GeForce GTX 560 Ti is going to be ambient, especially if both companies keep dynamic prices (to our benefit). The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is the quicker artwork scorecard, but it's non as economical. If overclocking is a no-brainer, Nvidia's rising mainstream offering is subject of oblation GeForce GTX 570-look-alike performance for a divide of the cost.