14 DAY TRIAL // There is still some time left until January 25, when Nvidia plans to officially release the GTX 560 Ti, but more and more leaks detailing this card make their way onto the Web on a daily basis, latest rumors suggesting the Santa Clara-based company is set to deliver a 2GB version of this mainstream GPU.
The news comes from the Chinese Chiphell forum, the source of numerous hardware leaks, and cites a note sent by Nvidia towards AIC manufacturers.
Apart from the increased video buffer, other changes will not make their way into this new version of the card, although Nvidia's board partners are still free to customize the card according to their wishes.
Just as we have detailed in our previous reports, the GTX 560 is based on the GF114 core and is built using TSMC's 40nm manufacturing processor, the same fabrication node featured in all the other 500-series graphics cards.
The GPU is a full version of the previously released GF104 and packs 384 CUDA cores, 32 ROP units and a 256-bit wide memory bus.
As far as reference clocks go, these will be set at 820MHz for the GPU and 1GHz for the memory, early benchmarks suggesting the 1GB version of the card is overall on par with the AMD Radeon HD 6950 in terms of performance.
When compared to other graphics solutions, the GTX 560 turned out to be as much as 27% faster than the Radeon HD 6870, about 14% better in average than the GTX 470 and 24% faster than the GTX 460.
With the introduction of the GTX 560, Nvidia has also revived the Ti moniker, which hasn't been used since the days of the GeForce 4 GPU family.
The 1GB version of the GTX 560 Ti will be officially launched on January 25 for about $280 US, the price tag of the 2GB edition remaining unknown at this time.