14 DAY TRIAL // While the GeForce GTX 580 and GTX 570 have been selling for months, a mainstream-level card based on the GF110 GPU has yet to debut, but this situation will be remedied soon, according to a recent report.
Both the GeForce GTX 580 and GTX 570 got good reviews when they came out, having surpassed the power draw and heat generation issues of the 400 line, mostly thanks to the GF110 GPU.
Nevertheless, the bulk of the consumer market is still waiting for the Santa Clara, California-based company to deliver a mainstream-level card.
That said, leaks and rumors have been circulating across the web about the GeForce GTX 560.
This card will be aimed at the higher half of the mainstream, the so-called performance market, much like the 460, which it will replace.
One of said leaks even provided the alleged photos of that model, implying that the release was not far off.
Sure enough, yet another report was made, one that claims to have finally discovered the official launch date.
The GTX 560 will supposedly be delivered on January 25, just a short time before the start of the Chinese New Year.
For those in need of a reminder, the product is powered by the GF114 graphics processing unit, which has all eight clusters activated.
The card was known as GTX 475 for a while and has 1 GB of memory, 32 ROPs and a bandwidth of 128 GB/s.
Predictably, it has capabilities that exceed those of the GTX 470, impressive considering that the latter was a high-end, not mainstream card.
The clock speeds are not yet clear, however, as different rumors suggested different numbers, as it was noticed upon the discovery of the aforementioned photos.
What remains to be seen is how the newcomer fares against the AMD Radeon HD 6870 and just how freely NVIDIA's various partners experiment with custom designs.