Nvidia launches GTX 560 Ti into superlative sphere

CHIP DESIGNER Nvidia has launched its GeForce GTX 560 Ti, the latest in the company's Fermi line of graphical processing units that has DirectX 11, selling for £199.

With numerous links to the small print Nvidia declares that its GTX 560 Ti is simultaneously 30 per cent faster than "previous generation" DX9 GPUs and 33 per cent, 46 per cent and 65 per cent faster than various GPUs that came out last year. But then, when you're comparing something to older technology, you'd expect some decent improvement.

So what achieves this amazing feat of being better than something that is older? The GTX 560 Ti default graphics core clock speed is 822MHz and along with that come 8 tessellation engines and 384 CUDA cores.

Versions of the card with a 1GHz graphics core speed are also available. The default maximum graphics core power is 170W. With the 822MHz graphics core there is just over a gigabyte of DDR5 RAM.

The new GPU also supports all the eye boggling 3D vision stuff that the Green Goblin does and 3D Blu-ray movies. Its display connections include a mini HDMI and two dual link DVIs. Its maximum digital resolution is 2560x1600 and for VGA 2048x1536. For more on the GTX 560 Ti from Nvidia go here while this is another example of corporate propaganda. µ