EVGA's GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2Win: The Raw Power Of Two GPUs
by Ryan Smith on November 4, 2011 11:00 PM ESTHAWX, Civ V, Battlefield BC2, & STALKER
HAWX, in spite of its high framerates on modern cards , is still rather GPU limited. As a result of that limitation and superb SLI scaling the 2Win manages to generate 165fps even at 2560. In fact it’s second only to the GTX 570 SLI, and is a solid 30% ahead of the GTX 580.
NVIDIA has continued to work on their Civilization V performance since the last time we’ve taken a look at the high end, and as a result SLI scaling is looking really good. The 2Win nearly doubles the performance of a GTX 560 Ti, and even the GTX 580 has to take a backseat by 33%. Thanks to these further driver improvements the 2Win is capable of cracking 60fps, even at 2560.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is another title that scales well with SLI, further vaulting it over the GTX 580. At 74.5fps at 2560 it’s not only an extremely smooth experience, but 36% ahead of a GTX 580. At the same time this is another title where the Radeons give us a strong showing, leading to the 6950 CF passing the 2Win. Meanwhile our Waterfall benchmark shakes things up slightly, but not for the better for the 2Win. All of our results have a much narrower spread, and as a result the 2Win gives up much of its advantage.
STALKER is our other VRAM-hungry benchmark. The 2Win still beats a single GTX 580 by 17%, but it loses to the 6950 CF and GTX 570 by more than usual. Both of these setups have additional VRAM (2GB and 1.25GB respectively), allowing them to get the best of the 2Win.
The significance of this situation is that with the STALKER benchmark approaching 2 years old, it’s in many ways a taste of things to come. We’re not done with the subject of VRAM, but it’s clear we’re already seeing situations where the 2Win is being held back by a lack of VRAM.
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Sabresiberian - Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - link
You might try actually reading instead of "skimming":2nd page of article, upper middle:
"As for display connectivity, thanks to having 2 GPUs on board EVGA is able to drive up to 4 displays rather than the usual 2 for an NVIDIA card. EVGA has broken this up into 3 DL-DVI ports and a mini-HDMI port. This should efficiently cover triple monitor setups, but if you want a 4th monitor it will be limited to 1920 @ 60Hz. Meanwhile the SLI connector next to the PCI bracket is a bit of a red herring – 4-way SLI is not supported for the 2Win; given the hardware this is presumably an NVIDIA limitation as they have only ever supported 3 and 4-way SLI on their high-end GPUs."
;)
mfenn - Saturday, November 5, 2011 - link
Get 6950 2GB CF, it's faster and uses less powerDeath666Angel - Saturday, November 5, 2011 - link
I guess they need have that recommendation to also take into account all the cheap PSUs out there. In theory, a good 500-600W PSU like the Seasonic X-Series, Be Quiet, Enermax etc. will be enough to power this graphics card and any modern quad core CPU with peripherals.ol1bit - Saturday, November 5, 2011 - link
I will say, that dual core GPU's are destine to fail sooner. My 7950GX2 died at 5 years. I know why still using it... Well I have a wife and a 9 year old. The Wife got that one, my kid has a 9800GT.The funny thing was, my wife does not stress it out, and a good Antec case with good cooling.
I paid $589 for that puppy, the most expensive video card I ever bought. I now run 460's in SLI, quiet, and runs well.
So I am not a fan of 2 core GPUs, get a couple 560's instead, I'll bet they last longer. If that matters to you.
Hauk - Saturday, November 5, 2011 - link
I have two 580's, but sure take notice of how good 6950 CF looks on those charts. That's some good performance for the $$. Kudos to EVGA for keeping things interesting though..trengoloid - Sunday, November 6, 2011 - link
i have 2 gtx 560 ti sli and my motherboard is z68 asrock extreme 7 gen3 motherboard that support tri sli and quad sli so just a question can i buy gtx 560 ti 2 win and use it to make quad sli or just return my other gtx 560 ti and combine my one gtx 560 ti to gtx ti 2 win to make a tri sli, is that going work?Ryan Smith - Sunday, November 6, 2011 - link
Sadly no. The 2Win cannot be SLI'd with any other cards. NVIDIA only supports up to 2 GTX 560s in SLI.marraco - Sunday, November 6, 2011 - link
-Short on RAM-More expensive than a pair of 560 Ti. Will only make sense on single PCI-E slot motherboards, but, no single slot motherboard is SLI certified, so that makes the card useless.
-The article needs analysis like this:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/21516
Sabresiberian - Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - link
Read the article more thoroughly. This card has the NF200 chip built in, and WILL work on mainboards that aren't "SLI certified". If you have a PCIe-16 slot, it will work.;)
Grandal - Sunday, November 6, 2011 - link
Skimmed some of the article, did I miss discussion about this?