Five Overclocked GeForce GTX 560 Ti Cards, Compared

[improviz]

I suspect that "everyone else" doesn't necessarily know, because I read TH most every day, and frankly, didn't know. At least one other person didn't know either. I tend to skip the intros of most roundups, and go straight to the data. So, going by the law of averages and how many people read this site but either never post, or don't post because they don't want to get bashed, I'm going to bet a healthy % of readers here did NOT know how cards got into these roundups. I am now sticking out my tongue. Bleah. LOL
[citation][nom]Pixel13[/nom]@Crashman:"everyone else seems to know that participation in these reviews is purely voluntary. Everyone gets invited, but nobody is required to participate. "EVERY time THD does a round-up type review, the intro mentions "of those invited, xxx sent..."--and EVERY time, several posters ask why such-and-so wasn't in the review.(I was surprised EVGA didn't send in their card, which I'd seen on Newegg last week, but wasn't at the Egg this week. Curious, that)[/citation]

 

[Crashman]

[citation][nom]Pixel13[/nom]EVERY time THD does a round-up type review, the intro mentions "of those invited, xxx sent..."--and EVERY time, several posters ask why such-and-so wasn't in the review.(I was surprised EVGA didn't send in their card, which I'd seen on Newegg last week, but wasn't at the Egg this week. Curious, that)[/citation]Some companies don't see enough "marketing advantage" in roundups. Basically, as PR you have to determine whether being present in the roundup is worth 1000 sales or whatever, depending on your margins. Some companies will only participate in a roundup if it knows it can win (having the fastest card out there or the best features for the money), else, that company will only send products for single-product articles.

 

[saaiello]

I have an EVGA 560 TI FPB and it scores at it stock speed a GPU score of P4134. It will OC stable at stock voltage 930 1860 2075 and get a GPU score of P4567. The EVGA FPB is a great card OCs real nice at its stock voltage of .97 I plan on messing with it tomorrow to see if I can get it up to 1000 MHz core clock with a little extra voltage.

 

[sticks435]

One thing to remember. That Asus card is the slowest factory overclocked card they make. To bad they didn't send the SOC version, same with MSI. I think that would have been a fairer comparison.

 

[sticks435]

I meant to say the MSI card, not the Asus, thought I thought Asus had a higher clocked 560.

 

[jenesuispasbavard]

Damn, you guys are behind the times. GPU-Z 0.5.1 shows all the relevant information in the new GTX 560Ti series and MSI Afterburner 2.1 beta 7 comes with voltage modification.

 

[rwpritchett]

just a question, where the HELL could you find the overclocked Asus GTX 560 TOP?
every retailer only has the standard asus version as the time of this post.

^+1

Seems a bit misleading that ALL of the Asus 560 Ti reviews are of the 900MHz TOP card, but ALL of the retail Asus 560 Ti cards are the ho-hum 830MHz cards.

Asus was the only company to offer an overclocked card at the reference card’s price today.

Did Tom's quote the standard card's price on newegg without noting the clocks? The standard Asus 560 Ti is $250 on newegg, but the TOP edition card is nowhere to be found.

 

[Crashman]

^+1

Seems a bit misleading that ALL of the Asus 560 Ti reviews are of the 900MHz TOP card, but ALL of the retail Asus 560 Ti cards are the ho-hum 830MHz cards.

Asus was the only company to offer an overclocked card at the reference card’s price today.

Did Tom's quote the standard card's price on newegg without noting the clocks? The standard Asus 560 Ti is $250 on newegg, but the TOP edition card is nowhere to be found.

These were available a few weeks ago but I can't find them now. Conspiracy theorist might postulate that Asus only released enough of these cards to retail to establish a low price for this review...

Rechecked part number 90-C1CQA0-L0UAY0YZ, loads of vendors in UK at the right place but most out-of-stock.

 

[rwpritchett]

Thanks for clearing that up. Really looking forward to picking up the Asus TOP if I can find one.

 

[illuminatuz]

why isnt zotac compared?

 

[Crashman]

[citation][nom]illuminatuz[/nom]why isnt zotac compared? [/citation]This review predates the launch. Yes, it takes that long for some articles to get published.

 

[knifearefun]

I wish to see how much further you could've still pushed these cards overclocking, since that would be the only reason why i would buy them, seeing if you could have gotten better overclocks compared to the stock options.
My choice would be the MSI for that aspect, cooler temps at lower fan temps, and better voltage regulators

 

[Marcus52]

[citation][nom]ScoobyJooby-Jew[/nom]There should have been a please in the previous post, and a question mark. -1 for bad grammar. -1 for bad manners.[/citation]

+5 for catching your mistakes, even if it was after you posted, and caring enough to correct them!

 

[youssef 2010]

A great job as always, toms

 

[ubercake]

560s are definitely great mid-level cards if you have $250 in your budget for video.

 

[Guest]

So I've been unsuccessfully trying to find one of your top recommended ASUS cards. All I am able to come by is similar looking model that is clocked at a lower 830MHz. Could someone point me in the right direction?

 

[Crashman]

[citation][nom]birdshot80[/nom]So I've been unsuccessfully trying to find one of your top recommended ASUS cards. All I am able to come by is similar looking model that is clocked at a lower 830MHz. Could someone point me in the right direction?[/citation]It appears they only produced enough of that model to cover the first week or so following the launch. Tom's Hardware would have pulled this award if the cards had disappeared a few days earlier, but can't pull an award after it has been published.

 

[rwpritchett]

The 900MHz Asus 560 Ti has now shown up on newegg (link).

Too bad I got impatient and went with a HD6950 instead. Wait, that probably was a good thing...

 

[butterseviltwin]

It should be noted that the Gigabyte SOC card now also being produced with a 950mhz GPU overclock, rather than the 1000mhz as reviewed in the article.

 

[felduque]

[citation][nom]hardcore_gamer[/nom]Even a 8800GT can play Crysis 2.We have to change our spam to " can it play Crysis 1 ? "[/citation]

IMO there isn't much value in comparing the OC models solely amongst themselves. Everyone that reads this is interested in how they compare with comp set and other models. That's how you make asmart buying decision. My 2 cents.

 

[Crashman]

[citation][nom]felduque[/nom]IMO there isn't much value in comparing the OC models solely amongst themselves. Everyone that reads this is interested in how they compare with comp set and other models. That's how you make asmart buying decision. My 2 cents.[/citation]There's one base model in this roundup. This same site compared the base model to a bunch of other cards prior to this comparison, so you're asking this site to add something that was already here.

 

[Why_Me]

560's in SLI seem to be the way to go atm. Gigabyte O/C version for $239 @ newegg.

 

[Guest]

hmmm, I've seen the articles intro "video card star" before.....
now where was that........now I remember!

http://www.google.com/search?q=clan+ghost+bear&hl=en&sa=G&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbs=simg:CAISEgktCjcL0nnF8yHK3GEByVtPxw&iact=hc&vpx=149&vpy=129&dur=2141&hovh=194&hovw=204&tx=81&ty=285&ei=bC3QTan3OdH3gAemy9C8DA&page=1&tbnh=150&tbnw=158&ved=1t:722,r:0,s:0&biw=1108&bih=832

I smell a MechWarrior!

 

[Rayman161]

got the Gigabyte SOC and its great video card and extremely quite.

 

[Guest]

The test for the temp/noise underload must all be wrong.
I got 2 560Ti both stock cooling and spec. They run SO hot and noisy it's nothing like what this review says. I'm about to return them both for a 6870 because they're louder than any AMD card I've ever had.

Very upset over how all the reviews are mis-leading about these cards for temps/noise.