NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 560 Ti: Upsetting The $250 Market
by Ryan Smith on January 25, 2011 9:00 AM ESTMetro 2033
The next game on our list is 4A Games’ Metro 2033, their tunnel shooter released last year. In September the game finally received a major patch resolving some outstanding image quality issues with the game, finally making it suitable for use in our benchmark suite. At the same time a dedicated benchmark mode was added to the game, giving us the ability to reliably benchmark much more stressful situations than we could with FRAPS. If Crysis is a tropical GPU killer, then Metro would be its underground counterpart.
Another game, another flip-flop. Here we see the GTX 560 come in under the 6950 1GB by around 10% at 1920, and closing the gap at 1680 where we don’t use as many advanced features. It’s quite a situation to be seeing the performance of the GTX 560 flip between near-6870 performance and near-6970 performance, and at the same time cementing the fact that the best GPU for any given game is highly, highly dependent on the game.
Meanwhile at 1920 though the GTX 560 does gather the distinction of being the bare minimum GeForce card needed to get Metro to or above a 30fps average, showcasing just how stressful the game is.
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ImSpartacus - Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - link
Page one, first chart, the 560 Ti is "$149" instead of "$249".Although, I kinda prefer the former.
alcortez - Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - link
...wow a 460 for negative $160.I want in on that. ;)
loubarouba - Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - link
lol thats definitely an approximately sign (~)...unless of course i was late and has already been edited to that..7Enigma - Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - link
Listed at $149 when you meant to write $249.7Enigma - Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - link
1st chart to clarify.vol7ron - Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - link
I think ImSpartacus beat you to it ;)ImSpartacus - Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - link
Yeah, I was secretly hoping to be the first to mention that. I feel special!.)
Rocket321 - Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - link
pg. 16 - Series Load Voltage chart has wrong title.7Enigma - Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - link
what's crazy is that when I posted and refreshed the page I was the only comment. It wasn't until page 3-4 of this review (as I was reading after the comment post) that I noticed yours was there so there is some lag between when a post is made and when others see it (even though you see it right away). I wish we had a time stamp feature on the post! :)maniac5999 - Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - link
So the GTX 560 Ti has a 4004mhz DATE rate? Wow, it sure gets around. (chart on P1) ;-)