14 DAY TRIAL // The rumors about Nvidia's plans to launch a Titanium-less version of the popular GTX 560 seems to have been confirmed recently, as a Chinese website reported that the new graphics card is expected to launch on May 17.
Apart from the release date, no other details regarding the card's specifications have been released, but previous leaks suggest the GTX 560 should come as an overclocked version of the older GTX 460 1GB.
This would mean that the GTX 560 features 336 shader ALUs, 56 texturing units, 32 ROP units as well as a 256-bit memory interface.
The GPU will be linked to 1GB of GDDR5 video buffer and its operating frequency should be set at about 800MHz.
To put things in perspective, the standard GTX 460 core runs at 675MHz, so the speed bump should offer quite a noticeable improvement in performance which should make it behave similarly with AMD's Radeon HD 6870.
Judging by the fact that most stock clocked Radeon HD 6870 solutions retail for somewhere in between $200 and $210 US, the GTX 560 should be priced at $199, but nothing is certain at this point.
More details should be available as we get nearer to the May 17 release date, when a large number of Nvidia partners are expected to launch graphics card based on this new solution.
Right now, Nvidia doesn't own any graphics card that can come between the $149 GTX 460 1GB and the $249 GTX 560 Ti, so the launch of the GTX 560 makes a lot of sense as it could cover this price and performance gap.
Since the beginning of the year, Nvidia has introduced no less than three 500-series desktop graphics card, including the $699 dual-GPU GeForce GTX 590. (via Expreview)