14 DAY TRIAL // The recent arrival of AMD's newest Radeon HD 7000 cards was enough to persuade NVIDIA that the situation called for a new video card, even if it wasn’t a coveted Kepler model.
According to VR-Zone, the Santa Clara, California-based company will soon release the GeForce GTX 560 SE.
This product will cover the price segment just below that of the GeForce GTX 560, meaning that it will sell for around $200.
That sum translates into 152 Euro, going by current exchange rates.
The report was kind enough to provide all the relevant specifications of this upcoming 40nm GPU-based device.
The GF114 ASIC graphics processing unit acts as the beating heart, offering 288 CUDA cores, 48 TMUs and 24 ROPs.
Meanwhile, 1GB of standard GDDR5 memory backs up the chip, working on a 192-bit interface.
Furthermore, the clock speeds are of 776 MHz for the GPU, 1553 MHz for the CUDA cores and 952 MHz (3.828 GHz effective) for the memory.
All in all, this leads to a memory bandwidth of 92 GB/s (gigabytes per second).
The AMD Radeon HD 7770 video card is the item that NVIDIA hopes to successfully battle with this unit, at least until its Kepler GPU is ready to sell, short in supply or otherwise.
The 7770 is the first video card to possess a clock speed of 1 GHz by default instead of needing overclocking to do so.
We aren't going to list all the other specs again, since we did it well enough here. We will just say that the Sunnyvale company allowed its partners to play with the design from the get-go, leading to custom models, with or without factory overclocking, like ASUS DirectCU and MSI's interpretations.
It should take a few weeks at most for sales of the GeForce GTX 560 SE to commence.