14 DAY TRIAL // Nvidia's GTX 560 Ti graphics card has finally become official, and, as it's the case with any new GPU release, the company's board partners have already started announcing their solutions based on the new graphics core, EVGA being one of the first to do so with the GeForce GTX 560 Ti FPB and GTX 560 Ti Superclocked.
From the outside, both cards look surprisingly similar to the reference version of the GTX 560 Ti, but on the inside, EVGA has tweaked their design in order to further improve the already high overclocking potential of the GTX 560 Ti.
As a result, the PCB has been upgraded to feature 8 layers, compared to the 6 layers that are usually found in other GTX 560s, and the PWM now uses four phases just for powering the GPU, instead of the regular 3+1 phase design.
In addition, the card also uses a beefier cooling system that packs memory as well as VREG heatsinks, EVGA claiming that their cards sport better temperatures than the competition.
This has allowed them to increase the operating frequencies of both cards, the Superclocked models running 900Mhz core and 4212MHz memory clocks while the EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti FPB has its GPU set at 850MHz and the memory at 4104MHz.
The rest of the specifications are identical with those of the GF114 core, as the card packs 384 CUDA cores, 64 texturing units, 32 ROPs and a 256-bit wide memory bus that connects the GPU to the 1GB of GDDR5 video buffer.
Performance wise, the standard clocked GTX 560 Ti is on par with AMD's newly released 1GB Radeon HD 6950, both also carrying similar price tags.
EVGA's GTX 560 Ti graphics cards come bundled together with a 3DMark 11 license as well as with the company's Precision tweaking utility.
Finally, the EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti Superclocked is priced at $269.99 while the GeForce GTX 560 Ti FPB is available for $249.99.