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NVIDIA set to launch 'new' retail GeForce GTX 560 Ti?

by Alistair Lowe on 26 October 2011, 12:22

Tags: NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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The rumour mill is spinning with the news that NVIDIA is looking likely to release a revamped GeForce 560 Ti based on the GF110 silicon found on the 570 and 580 models, as opposed to the current GF114 which is used by the GTX 560 and 560 Ti.

Geforce 570 GF110

The new retail GTX 560 Ti?

Reports at VR-Zone say this new GTX 560 Ti will have 448 cores, which makes it a GTX 570 with one disabled Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) and, perhaps, some frequency underclocking. As it's the GF110 we're talking about here, bus width will be 320-bits. A 14SM arrangement with 448 cores should also mean a total of 56 TMUs and 40 ROPs.

Without the magic clock-frequency figures, we're unable to make an educated guess on exact performance but we expect the 'new' 560 Ti to be significantly faster than the current model. It's also expected that this refresh will make room for a DisplayPort connector and support for three-way SLI.

It's hard to ascertain NVIDIA's motivation for this release, though NVIDIA pulled the same stunt with the GTX 260 some years back. It's very possible that NVIDIA could be looking to maximise on the less-used GF110 die before the change-up to upcoming Kepler GPUs slated for release early next year; GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM GPUs are already based on the GF110, by the way.

We suspect a more-immediate reason for a 560 Ti revamp, however, is to create an appealing price point for the festive season. Think of it as a downclocked, slightly stunted GTX 570 and you won't be far wrong. But if all this is true, why isn't this new GPU called the GTX 570 SE? Your guesses are as good as ours.



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Yeah, together with the non-ti version as well. Clarity, anyone? Seems the same name applies to many different products, while in other cases different names apply to the same product. What are they trying to hide?
What are they trying to hide?

Substandard yields on some of their designs? ;) So essentially this will by a GTX470 on a better stepping? Doesn't the GTX560 Ti already have near identical performance to a GTX470? Hard to see where the performance gap for this to slide in to is…
kalniel
Yeah, together with the non-ti version as well. Clarity, anyone? Seems the same name applies to many different products, while in other cases different names apply to the same product. What are they trying to hide?

Why don't they just call all of their GPU's (from the very low end to the GTX580 or whatever it's called) Geforce 500 and require everyone buying any of them to check cores, clocks, memory bus to work out what model they are actually getting.

It's not like it's that different to what they are currently going and makes about as much sense.
badass
Why don't they just call all of their GPU's (from the very low end to the GTX580 or whatever it's called) Geforce 500 and require everyone buying any of them to check cores, clocks, memory bus to work out what model they are actually getting.

It's not like it's that different to what they are currently going and makes about as much sense.

i dont understand why they have to keep fiddling with suffixes and prefixes. GPU and CPU manufacturers are as bad as each other with their constantly changing naming schemes ‘to make things easier for customers’. Initially they do then they screw the whole thing up with tweaking and adding bits here and there.

Why not just stick with a reference for the brand/model such as Geforce/Radeon/Athlon/Pentium with a shortened acronym, a number for the series, a number for where this particular card sits in the series and then a number for its revision. If they want to stick an extra zero on… fine, im sure people can adjust to that.