Official GTX560 Review Thread (updated with 17 reviews at this time)

[Ryan DabsDotCom]

Food for thought, I expected the GTX560Ti to come out on top but unsurprisingly it's not quite as simple as that.

 

[Insomniator]

Nice card... though i'm glad to see my $200 470 is still hangin in there perf/value wise.

 

[Will Robinson]

Nice card but...can it run Crysis?
Well....yes....just not as well as an HD6950.
Not to mention Metro 2033 and Battlefield Bad Company..oh well:whiste:

 

[Arkadrel]

That is interesting. Isn't Cayman size a bit bigger than GF104/GF114

Correct me if Im wrong, but Cayman is 389mm2 vs GF104/Gf114 (assuming its the same size since its just a fully unlocked GF104) is 331 mm2 or 360mm2 depending on where you read it.

This would mean that Nvidia is approaching parity or beating AMD in perf/mm2 which is something they havent been close on over the last few rounds. And thats simply with a fixed version of a 2009 chip versus AMD's new Cayman chip.

What a turnaround for Nvidia since the 580 launched. Even if the 6950 is a bit faster, they have really closed the gap on this it seems.

+1 and totally agree.

the 560 appears to be 367mm2 (from wiki's and sites)
the 69xx appears to be 389mm2 (from wiki's and sites)

With how close they are in terms of performance/mm2, Nvidia made a huge comeback (or Amds new arch just failed,depending on how you look at it glass half full half empty).

The slight egde the 6950 1gb has on the 560, probably wont justify the size increase of it in terms of performance/mm2. You can tell their priced so close as well, man its a close race at that price range.

6950 uses less watts, the 560 has a slightly more quiet cooler.
6950 has mlaa/eyefinity, the 560 has cuda/physx.

Nice card but...can it run Crysis?
Well....yes....just not as well as an HD6950.
Not to mention Metro 2033 and Battlefield Bad Company..oh well:whiste:

are you implying that if you look fps shooter games, you should get amd? and if you want flight/car raceing games/simulators you should get a nvidia card?

 

[notty22]

TPU has has 4 gtx 560 reviews, the Asus card is clocked at 900mhz tests even / faster than 6950.

http://www.techpowerup.com/

 

[happy medium]

TPU has has 4 gtx 560 reviews, the Asus card is clocked at 900mhz tests even / faster than 6950.

http://www.techpowerup.com/

I think I saw that Asus card at tiger direct for 250$.

 

[tincart]

Does anyone have an explanation for the ridiculous performance difference between AMD and nV in Civ 5?

 

[Arkadrel]

So far I think the best gtx560 card is the Gigabyte SOC for 275$.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...162&CatId=3669

' holy f***in shyt.

That card makes Amds 6970s look bad (value wise).... makes the 580s prices look even more horrible though (value wise) 274$ vs 499$ for almost same performance (560 SoC vs 580). And its a smaller chip too.... makes me wonder why they amd doesnt have Superoverclocked editions of all their cards, its obvious its something that benefits nvidia being able to crank up speeds on the gpus and watching smaller chips pull down bigger ones.

Amd lost this round... the 6xxx vs 5xx race.

Does anyone have an explanation for the ridiculous performance difference between AMD and nV in Civ 5?

The way its ment to be played,... nvidia tessellation implementation doesnt work well for amd cards.
Which is fair game, it helps them sell more cards, in the bussiness world things work that way (even if some call foul, or playing dirty, long as you dont get a lawsuit for doing stuff, its all good). Amd just arnt good at playing that game.

 

[happy medium]

Does anyone have an explanation for the ridiculous performance difference between AMD and nV in Civ 5?

Anand's article says the Nvidia drivers were just updated for this game and now the performance has gone up dramaticly.

 

[happy medium]

' holy f***in shyt.

That card makes Amds 6970s look bad.... makes the 580s prices look even more horrible though. And its a smaller chip too.... makes me wonder why they amd doesnt have Superoverclocked editions of all their cards, its obvious its something that benefits nvidia being able to crank up speeds on the gpus and watching smaller chips pull down bigger ones.

Amd lost this round... the 6xxx vs 5xx race.




The way its ment to be played,... nvidia tessellation implementation doesnt work well for amd cards.
Which is fair game, it helps them sell more cards, in the bussiness world things work that way. Amd just arnt good at playing game.

I said holy ****** too.

That card is the price performance leader by far!
If I were in the market for a 1900x1080 card right now, I'd gobble that up for 275$.
Hmmmmm, I am.

Link to gtx560 SOC for 275$ and review.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/gigabyte-gtx-560-ti-soc-review/

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...ffiliateID=SyIrj13jmG8-CZjbZ3NkDGMhL7EI.07_Gw

 

[brencat]

So far I think the best gtx560 card is the Gigabyte SOC for 275$.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...162&CatId=3669

http://www.guru3d.com/article/gigabyte-gtx-560-ti-soc-review/20

Looks like a great card HM. But...Tiger Direct site says 12 mos parts/labor warranty. Really??! :hmm:

Thought Giga was good for 3yrs parts/labor... ?

 

[Vette73]

TPU has has 4 gtx 560 reviews, the Asus card is clocked at 900mhz tests even / faster than 6950.

http://www.techpowerup.com/

So it takes a overclocked card that cost more to equal the 6950 1gig at default.

Again they need to lowwer the price of the 560 as the 6950 looks like a much better card right now.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

I still don't understand how Anandtech gets such higher FPS results on their reviews compared to other reviews, and as best I can tell the reso, AA etc are all the same:
GTX 560 1680 X 1020, 4AA, Bad Company 2:
Anandtech: 115.8
Hardware Canucks: 60.85
Bit Tech: 71(tainted by using 0AA)
Techpowerup: 71.9
Edit, tom's hardware has 105.2(using 8XMSAA not 4xAA). This one meshes with AT, but might be the only one.
Edit: Hexus, 65.5
Edit: PC Perspective, 106

A section of only 4 reviews, but I don't think you'll find any others registering 115 FPS...any thoughts on how this is? Are these extrapolated theoretical GPU only FPS results if CPU was unlimited...or something?

Edit: There were more reviews than I thought, so I've edited the results in. Still, you have situation where half have very high FPS(AT, TH, Pc Perspective) and the others have just over that magical FPS number of 60. Who is right?

 

[Arkadrel]

@HappyMedium yeah that card rocks hard compaired to its price.

274$ even if the card is OCed to its limits, the fact that its almost as fast as the 580, a 499$ card is pure win.

Id buy that card and pocket the price differnce of those 225$ saved.
Im willing to bet either that card goes up in price, or the 580 prices are gonna drop alot.

The 580 is overpriced, compaired to the 6950 that you flash to a 6970, or just a normal 6970. Makeing it almost a silly buy (value wise) unless you want the absolute fastest reguardless of price. This 560 SoC is the blow though... 580 prices are nuts when you can save 225$ at stock and get same thing from a factory oc 560.

 

[happy medium]

So it takes a overclocked card that cost more to equal the 6950 1gig at default.

Again they need to lowwer the price of the 560 as the 6950 looks like a much better card right now.

Where is it priced 20$ more, I see 13$ less shipped. Cheapest 6950 1gb is 268$ shipped at the Egg.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...689&CatId=3585

 

[happy medium]

274$ even if the card is OCed to its limits

That just it, they overclocked it more to 1044 on stock voltage!
I'm betting 1100 core with voltage is a real good possibility.

This make the gtx570/6970 at 350$ look like crap. hehehe.
And for 12$ less (168$ shipped at the egg) the 6950 1gb gets slaughtered.

This cards price is going knowhere but up, get em while there hot!

 

[Vette73]

Where is it priced 20$ more, I see 13$ less shipped. Cheapest 6950 1gb is 268$ shipped at the Egg.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...689&CatId=3585

MSRP on the asus 560 is $279 MSRP for the basic 6950 is $259 per this thread...

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2138070

AMDs price cut just came out today I am guessing; so will take a day or so to really drop prices a little more.

 

[Castiel]

Does newegg not have these cards up? Did Tigerdirect REALLY steal the show by offering them so fast?

 

[happy medium]

MSRP on the asus 560 is $279 MSRP

msrp for the gtx560 is 250$

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4135/nvidias-geforce-gtx-560-ti-upsetting-the-250-market

The gtx SOC is 279$ shipped and slaughters the 6950 1gb. Look at posts above.

 

[Vette73]

Does newegg not have these cards up? Did Tigerdirect REALLY steal the show by offering them so fast?

I don't see the 560 at newegg yet and the 6950's are pre-price drop from what I see.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

Does newegg not have these cards up? Did Tigerdirect REALLY steal the show by offering them so fast?

Apparently, but TD doesn't seem to have any 6950 1GBs at all up yet.

 

[happy medium]

Does newegg not have these cards up? Did Tigerdirect REALLY steal the show by offering them so fast?

I know I cant believe it. Did Newegg piss off Nvidia?

Castiel did you see that gtx560 SOC review? Its at guru 3d.
Unbelievable for 275$

 

[Vette73]

msrp for the gtx560 is 250$

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4135/nvidias-geforce-gtx-560-ti-upsetting-the-250-market

The gtx SOC is 279$ shipped and slaughters the 6950 1gb. Look at posts above.

The graph notty22 posted shows the 6950 and overclocked 560 equal. The default 6950 is faster than the default 560.

If you want to bring in things that are not 100% for all then the 6950 unlocks and "slaughters" the default 560.

 

[Castiel]

Apparently, but TD doesn't seem to have any 6950 1GBs at all up yet.

Newegg has 3 6950 1G cards up and no 560's. Way to go Tigerdirect. Might just have to start buying from you

 

[happy medium]

If you want to bring in things that are not 100% for all then the 6950 unlocks and "slaughters" the default 560.

yea your right, and the default gtx560 is 18$ cheaper shipped.The 6950 1gb does not unlock and thats what we are talking about. . Good now?

Back to the gtx560...................:whiste:

Anything better price performance then the gtx560 SOC (equal to the gtx570 performance) for 275$?