It's a morning for rumours, folks, so how does this one grab you?
NVIDIA will soon be solidifying the mid-range GeForce line-up with the release of the GTX 560. This new GPU drops the Titanium (Ti) suffix, and it is designed to fit in neatly between the GTX 550 Ti and GTX 560 Ti.
German site Heise Online reckons it will be a scaled-back GTX 560 Ti, which makes implicit sense, and, conjecturing somewhat, the specifications would bear out thus:
| GTX 550 Ti (1,024MB) |
GTX 560 (1,024MB) |
GTX 560 Ti (1,024MB) |
|
| Transistors | 1.17bn | 1.95bn | 1.95bn |
| Die size | 238mm² | 367mm² | 367mm² |
| Fermi revision | GF116 | GF114 | GF114 |
| General clock | 900MHz | 750MHz | 822MHz |
| Shader clock | 1,800MHz | 1,500MHz | 1,645MHz |
| Memory clock | 4,104MHz | 3,600MHz | 4,008MHz |
| Memory size | 1,024MB GDDR5 | 1,024MB GDDR5 | 1,024MB GDDR5 |
| Memory interface | 192-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| SMs | 4 | 7 | 8 |
| Shaders | 192 | 336 | 384 |
| GFLOPS | 691 | 1,008 | 1,264 |
| Texturing | 32ppc bilinear 32ppc FP16 |
56ppc bilinear 56ppc FP16 |
64ppc bilinear 64ppc FP16 |
| ROPs | 24 | 32 | 32 |
Deactivating one SM block and reducing speeds would give the GTX 560 the right kind of specifications to slot into the line-up. But, if true, the numbers are nary an improvement over the current GeForce GTX 460 1GB GPU that's selling for around £120, including VAT.
What do you think? Would you be tempted by a £150 GTX 560, should the above-stated specifications be accurate?
