Introducing the new EVGA GTX 560 Ti 448 Core FTW

Performance summary charts

Here are the summary charts of 21 games and 3 synthetic tests. The highest settings are always chosen and it is DX11 when there is a choice; DX10 is picked above DX9, and the settings are ultra or maxed (except for Shogun II on ” very high”). Exact settings are listed in last week’s Catalyst 11.10 versus GeForce 285.62 driver comparison.

In the first three columns, the GTX 560 Ti is tested in its three flavors, first the Galaxy 384 Core GTX 560 Ti, secondly the EVGA underclocked-to-stock 448 core GTX 560 Ti; and third, the EVGA factory overclocked 448 core GTX 560 Ti FTW (in bold).  Next we see the GTX 560 Ti’s bigger brother, the GTX 570 sandwiched in-between the competition, the 2GB HD 6950 and HD 6970.  And in the 7th column, we see the GTX 580 as the fastest single-GPU video card sitting along in price/performance.

All results, except for Vantage and 3DMark11, show average framerates and higher is always better. In-game settings are fully maxed out and they are identically high or ultra across all platforms except for Shogun II where it is tested at the benchmark’s “very high” DX11 settings with 2xMSAA and 16xAF.  We see some very impressive results with the EVGA-clocked 448 core generally beating or trading blows with the GTX 570 and HD 6950.  Some game benchmarks show it even faster than the HD 6970, although not generally so.

Let’s overclock our GTX 560 Ti 448 Core even further to 855/2000MHz and rerun the benches, but this time we will emphasize performance over the EVGA factory-overclocked GTX 560 Ti FTW speeds and match it more closely to GTX 570 and HD 6970 results..  The same settings are used in both charts.  The user-overclocked card’s figures are in bold.

Impressive.  A moderate overclock over the EVGA factory overclock now generally has the 448 Core GTX 560 Ti at $290 beating the $50 more expensive stock HD 6970!  And of course, it now soundly beats the stock GTX 570.  We need to realize however, that each of the competing cards can also be overclocked but that does not take away from the overclocking and performance scaling abilities of the new 448 core GTX 560 Ti.

3DMark11

3DMark11 is Futuremark’s latest DX11-only benchmark and here are the default benchmarks detailed results.

Unfortunately, scores are completely meaningless when they are presented in this way but they do offer supporting data to accompany our game benches.

Before we head to our conclusion, let’s do some 3D Vision testing.