A Closer Look

We have seen the ASUS DirectCU II heatsink on several cards, both from NVIDIA and AMD. Thanks to its triple slot design, the cooler provides excellent cooling capabilities with its five heatpipes.


The card requires two 6-pin PCI-Express power cables connected. This power configuration is good for up to 225 W of power draw.


The voltage controller has been rebranded to use ASUS' SHE markings. Based on the package design it looks like a product from uPI with the paint scraped off and SHE printed on it.


The GDDR5 memory chips are made by Samsung, and carry the model number K4G10325FG-HC04. They are specified to run at 1250 MHz (5000 MHz GDDR5 effective).


NVIDIA uses their GF110 graphics processor on the GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores. This is the same GPU that's used on the GTX 580 and GTX 570, just in a configuration with reduced shader count. The GPU is made on a 40 nm process at TSMC Taiwan. It uses the same architecture as NVIDIA's GF100 but with improvements on the transistor level to reduce power consumption.