NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 560 Ti: Upsetting The $250 Market
by Ryan Smith on January 25, 2011 9:00 AM ESTWolfenstein
Finally among our benchmark suite we have Wolfenstein, the most recent game to be released using the id Software Tech 4 engine. All things considered it’s not a very graphically intensive game, but at this point it’s the most recent OpenGL title available. It’s more than likely the entire OpenGL landscape will be thrown upside-down once id releases Rage later this year.
Wolfenstein is quite easy to make CPU limited even at higher resolutions, so the range on our charts is compressed some here. Even against the risk of being CPU limited, the 6950 1GB has a solid lead over the GTX 560 here at both 1920 and 1680, showcasing either an NVIDIA weakness at Wolfenstein, or possibly a larger weakness at OpenGL as a whole. Among the NVIDIA cards the GTX 560’s lead over the GTX 460 1GB is the lowest we’ve ever seen it: 20% at 1920, and all of 2% at a 1680. NVIDIA is definitely CPU limited here, if not also memory bandwidth limited.
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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) ;-)