Introduction

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 560 Ti is based on NVIDIA's new GF114 chip. As far as specifications and transistor-count go, it is identical to the GF104 on which GTX 460 was based, except that it has all 384 of the CUDA cores physically present enabled, and that it uses the same secret-sauce (read: electrical enhancements) that made GF110, an evolved clone of the GF100, totally rock with power consumption figures. 384 CUDA cores apart, there's a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, 32 ROPs, branched geometry processing, and the immediate fruition of the electrical enhancements, clock speeds: 822 MHz core, 1640 MHz CUDA cores, and 1000 MHz (4.00 GHz effective) memory. As far as features go, the GTX 560 Ti doesn't come with anything we haven't seen already with the GTX 460, it's all about performance per watt/dollar in this round.

ZOTAC's GeForce GTX 560 Ti AMP! Edition uses massively increased clock speeds to give the user a nice performance gain for a small price increase while also bundling a full version of Assassin's Creed.

Packaging

Contents

You will receive:

• Graphics card
• Driver CD + Documentation
• DVI Adapter
• Mini-HDMI to HDMI Adapter
• 2x PCI-Express Power Cable
• Assassin's Creed Coupon

The Card

ZOTAC is using the same cooler shroud on their AMP! Edition as on their normal GTX 560. We have also seen similar coolers on GTX 400 models from ZOTAC.


Like all other GTX 560 boards, the ZOTAC GTX 560 AMP! Edition requires two slots in your system.


The card has two DVI ports, and one mini-HDMI port. Unlike AMD's latest GPUs, the output logic design is not as flexible. On AMD cards vendors are free to combine six TMDS links into any output configuration they want (dual-link DVI consuming two links), on NVIDIA, you are fixed to two DVI outputs and one HDMI/DP in addition to that. NVIDIA confirmed that you can use only two displays at the same time, so for a three monitor setup you would need two cards.

NVIDIA has included an HDMI sound device inside their GPU which does away with the requirement of connecting an external audio source to the card for HDMI audio. The HDMI interface is HDMI 1.3a compatible which includes Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD, AC-3, DTS and up to 7.1 channel audio with 192 kHz / 24-bit. NVIDIA also claims full support for the 3D portion of the HDMI 1.4 specification which will become important later this year when we will see first Blu-Ray titles shipping with support for 3D output.


You may combine up to two GTX 560 Ti cards of any model from any vendor in SLI.


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