14 DAY TRIAL // With just a few more hours to go until the GTX 560 becomes official, Nvidia's graphics card seems to make its appearance on the websites of all major hardware retailers, including Newegg which has recently added a Palit-built GeForce GTX 560 to its offer.
Just as the previous reports suggested, the card is priced at $199.99, which places it right between the GTX 460 1GB and the GTX 560 Ti.
According to an Nvidia article that went online just the last week, the GTX 560 was developed in order to allow users to play modern games at 1920x1080, which has become the most popular resolution on Steam.
As a result, the non-TI GTX 560 is actually a higher clocked version of the GTX 460 1GB with a slightly revised design which takes advantage of the improvements made by TSMC to its 40nm process technology.
Compared with its predecessor, which had its operating frequencies set at 675MHz for the core and 900MHz (3.6GHz data rate) for the memory, the GTX 560 comes as a huge improvement as its GPU and video buffer are now run at 820MHz and 1002MHz (4008MHz data rate), respectively.
In addition to the improved clocks, the power consumption of the GTX 560 has been lowered by 10W since it now has a TDP of 150W.
However, the core specifications have remained unchanged from the GTX 460 1GB and the graphics card packs the same 336 stream processors, 56 texture units, 32 ROP units and a 256-bit wide memory bus that can be connected to either 1GB or 2GB of GDDR5 video buffer.
Outside of this Palit model, two of MSI's upcoming GeForce GTX 560 graphics cards have also been spotted earlier today and both of these were built using the Twin Frozer II custom cooling system. (via Sweclockers)