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

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cusideabelincoln

cusideabelincoln

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AtenRa said:
Forget OC for a moment, take two cards at default factory settings like GTX 560 Ti SOC and GTX570 (non OC model). You have almost same performance and less power usage with less heat and it cost less.

For people that don’t OC, the GTX560 Ti SOC is better and cheaper.
Situation changes if we OC both cards and everyone knows that GTX570 will be the winner.
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Better performance than a stock 560, sure, and that makes it a good value. But it's not always better than the 570. And if we're talking about the Guru3D benchmarks I have my doubts; I don't think they are using the same driver for the 570 and 560, since the 570 gets the same framerates in the 560 review as it does in their 6900 review, and they used 263.09 in that review.

happy medium said:
Hurray, someone got it. thank you.

Now of coarse the overclocked gtx570 will be the winner, it should, it cost much more.

now we just need a 6950 1gb (for 13$ less at newegg compared to the SOC gtx), with a garaunteed factory overclock at 1000 core, for 275$, to compare the gtx560ti SOC.

Anyone?
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Everyone gets it, but you weren't getting the point I was making.

By your argument the $200 GTX 460-OC makes the 560 irrelevant, because they should perform very similarly.
 
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tincart

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tincart said:
Does anyone have an explanation for the ridiculous performance difference between AMD and nV in Civ 5?
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When I see a performance delta between two vendors on a game that seems to persist across driver revisions and is out of step with the performance of the cards in most other games, I tend to get wary. Why should I buy a game from a company that seems incapable of making their game run well on all hardware? Having the 460 means I'm not getting the stick... this time, but it doesn't exactly inspire my confidence in the developer.
 
cusideabelincoln

cusideabelincoln

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AtenRa said:
well, i have said almost the same performance
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Yeah I noticed; that's why I tried to word it carefully ;)

460 overclocked : 560 (or 470) :: 560 overclocked : 570 (or 480) :: 570 overclocked : 580

Or in the past:

:: 275 overclocked : 285

Situation is not unheard of.
 
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Skurge

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happy medium said:
Hurray, someone got it. thank you.

Now of coarse the overclocked gtx570 will be the winner, it should, it cost much more.

now we just need a 6950 1gb (for 13$ less at newegg compared to the SOC gtx), with a garaunteed factory overclock at 1000 core, for 275$, to compare the gtx560ti SOC.

Anyone?
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Im sure Sapphire or Gigabyte will cough up a Toxic and a SOC soon enough.

6950 2GB are already dipping to $260 AR so I doubt the Overclocked editions will cost too much.
 
Skurge

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tincart said:
When I see a performance delta between two vendors on a game that seems to persist across driver revisions and is out of step with the performance of the cards in most other games, I tend to get wary. Why should I buy a game from a company that seems incapable of making their game run well on all hardware? Having the 460 means I'm not getting the stick... this time, but it doesn't exactly inspire my confidence in the developer.
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Absolutly, They are all over the place. Not worth looking at IMO. Unless you only play that game and hope you are lucky enough to have the right platform.
 
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Aznattic

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I still find the 6950 2 gb to be a better buy since you can unlock it to a 6970. Only reason why i am buying Nvidia though is for the cuda support in certain plugins for Photoshop.

I have still yet to see the ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II TOP available for purchasing on Newegg or Amazon. :(
 
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Aznattic

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Castiel said:
The DirectCU II and Top are the same exact card. TOP just gets a different bios
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Thanks, didn't know that. What difference does the BIOS offer?

Either way, i can't find either card to buy from Newegg or Amazon. Tigerdirect had it, but after taxes it becomes quite pricey.

I am debating on the MSI which both sites have now or if i should wait to see if the Asus will appear.
 
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Aznattic said:
Thanks, didn't know that. What difference does the BIOS offer?

Either way, i can't find either card to buy from Newegg or Amazon. Tigerdirect had it, but after taxes it becomes quite pricey.

I am debating on the MSI which both sites have now or if i should wait to see if the Asus will appear.
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Bios in the TOP is just clocked higher. If your looking for a good card newegg has the MSI 560 for 249.99. The MSI and ASUS are the top 2 cards IMO
 
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sticks435

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Looks like that site just picks whatever resolution they think is best for a game, and just use that. So on some games you get all 3 resolutions, SC2 you only get 2560x1600 and the rest are 1920x1080. I wouldn't really trust that site.
 
Zebo

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AtenRa said:
Forget OC for a moment, take two cards at default factory settings like GTX 560 Ti SOC and GTX570 (non OC model). You have almost same performance and less power usage with less heat and it cost less.

For people that don’t OC, the GTX560 Ti SOC is better and cheaper.
Situation changes if we OC both cards and everyone knows that GTX570 will be the winner.
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Why should we forgetaboutit? The 570 does not OC like the 560 so I'd say very important to think about since it's not even close to 900Mhz OC.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Palit/GeForce_GTX_570_Sonic_Platinum/31.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_570/30.html

If 560's regularly gets 1000 it's a faster card both OCed for $100 cheaper.

Even if both not OCed the 570 is an awful value compared to 560/6850.
 
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Castiel said:
That's reference which doesn't matter to be because i'd never buy a reference 560.

Asus 560 went to 1060, MSI 560 went to 1070. Never really see any overclocked results for a 6950. Let me do some digging and see if i can find some.

Here we go.. 6970 at 1015 core

asus6970_1015.PNG
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Thanks for showing that. Where are you seeing these 1000+ OCs? All I see is mid 950Mz for like 4 cards at TPU still awesome tho.
 
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Aznattic

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Castiel said:
Bios in the TOP is just clocked higher. If your looking for a good card newegg has the MSI 560 for 249.99. The MSI and ASUS are the top 2 cards IMO
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Build layout wise, are both the same or is one better?

I can't find the MSI on Newegg's site. Amazon has it for $262 with free prime shipping.
 
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maniacalpha1-1

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Amazon has the MSI Twin Frozr for $262.99. It's higher than Newegg, but Newegg has a location in my state so Newegg is higher for me...
 
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