EVGA's GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2Win: The Raw Power Of Two GPUs
by Ryan Smith on November 4, 2011 11:00 PM ESTDIRT 2, Mass Effect 2, Wolfenstein, & Compute Performance
DIRT 2 is another title modern cards can power on through. Even at 2560 the 2Win gets better than 100fps, turning in another large lead over the GTX 580.
Mass Effect 2 is a rather interesting test because it above all else appears to be texture bound rather than shader bound, which is a very fortunate scenario for the GTX 560 Ti, as it has nearly as much texture throughput as the GTX 580. As a result the 2Win with its two GPUs does exceptionally well here. At 2560 it offers 92fps, and more importantly it surpasses a GTX 580 by a hair over 50%. This is the exception rather than the rule of course, but it’s also a prime example of why dual-GPU cards can be a threat to high performance single-GPU cards like the GTX 580.
Wrapping up our gaming benchmarks is Wolfenstein multiplayer. The game is CPU limited at much beyond 120fps, and even at 2560 the 2Win nearly hits that mark.
Our final benchmark is the Civilization V leader texture compression benchmark, a compute performance benchmark measuring the ability of a DirectCompute program to decompress textures. While not a game in and of itself, it does a good job highlighting the 2Win’s biggest weakness: it’s only as good as SLI is. Texture compression isn’t something that can be split among GPUs, and as a result the 2Win is suddenly no better than a regular GTX 560 Ti. At these performance levels it isn’t an issue, but it’s not the only game using this kind of system. Rage is similar in application and in SLI limitations, which becomes an issue because Rage’s CUDA accelerated texture decoder really needs a GTX 570 or better.
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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."
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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?