EVGA's GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2Win: The Raw Power Of Two GPUs
by Ryan Smith on November 4, 2011 11:00 PM ESTCrysis: Warhead, BattleForge, & Metro 2033
As we mentioned previously, the EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2Win is a one-off product. At $520 It doesn’t have any specific competition – at least none that’s reciprocal – but EVGA likes to call it a GTX 580 competitor it’s definitely priced close enough to the GTX 580 to make that a meaningful comparison. As a multi-GPU product it also competes with multi-GPU multi-card setups, primarily the regular GTX 560 Ti SLI and the Radeon HD 6950 CF.
Starting as always with Crysis, we get a good setup for the rest of the benchmarks to come. The 2Win is well ahead of the similarly priced GTX 580, turning in a score 30% better than the 580. At the same time its performance relative to the GTX 560 Ti SLI is almost identical, owing to the 2Win’s 3% higher core clock. At no point here will the GTX 560 Ti SLI and 2Win ever separate by an appreciable margin; it’s really only faster on paper.
Looking at raw performance, we see that the 2Win turns in a solid performance at 2560 and is well above 60fps at 1920. SLI doesn’t change the fact that AMD and NVIDIA will regularly jockey for position depending on the game, so even with a strong showing here, the 6950 CF still ends up being quite a bit faster.
The Crysis minimum framerate test is one of the handful of tests we have right now that pays much attention to more than 1GB of VRAM. The fact that the 2Win does worse than the regular GTX 560 Ti SLI is not a mistake here – it’s a telltale sign of swapping into VRAM. The 2Win is generally capable of handling 2560 in terms of rendering power, but with 1GB of effective VRAM it can run into other bottlenecks first, as we see here.
Given that it’s a good deal more powerful than the GTX 580, the 2Win has no problem breezing through Battleforge. Even at 2560 it hits 88fps, 35% better than the GTX 580.
When it comes to SLI scaling Metro has always been a challenge, and as a result the 2Win loses some of its advantage here. It’s still ahead of the GTX 580 at 2560, but only by 16%. Again we’re looking at a potential lack of VRAM, but also the result of Metro’s significant workload at 2560. This is one of the only titles we currently use that is still a struggle for every card we have, and as a result it’s one of the few titles than the 2Win just isn’t cut out for at 2560. It’s only at 1920 that the 2Win can pick up enough speed to be playable, at which point its lead over the GTX 580 grows slightly to 20%.
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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?