Sparkle Trumpets 1GHz Calibre GeForce GTX 560 Ti Graphics Card

It appears that the new video card released by NVIDIA has a serious overclocking potential, as proven by Sparkle, whose Calibre model actually reached the 1 GHz threshold, even as it sticks to air cooling.

Yesterday (January 25), NVIDIA finally made the official introduction of the GeForce GTX 560 Ti graphics card.

As the first mainstream-level 500 series board to leave the Santa Clara, California-based company's labs, it uses the GF114 graphics processing unit.

While it has yet to deliver a model, TGT is said to be planning on selling a card of this sort with a GPU clock speed of 1 GHz.

Now, however, it appears that Sparkle got around to doing that first, having formally launched the board known as Calibre X560.

Like all others of its kind, it boasts 384 CUDA cores, a memory interface of 256 bits and support for not just DirectX 11, but also OpenGL 4.1, PhysX, CUDA, 2-way SLI and 3D Vision.

The amount of memory is not unusual, of 1GB (only Palit has, so far, revealed one with 2GB), but its frequency of 4,800 MHz is far higher than the stock 4,000.

The same goes for the shaders, which work at 2,000 MHz instead of 1,645 MHz, though its makes sense such clock boost would exist on a card whose GPU is 178 MHz faster than usual (1,000 MHz instead of 822).

Of course, such specifications demand extra cooling prowess, hence why Sparkle chose an Arctic solution, an Accelero, with two 92mm PWM fans and four copper heatpipes.

Furthermore, All-solid capacitors make the current more stable, assuring a longer lifespan.

Finally, the product features dual-DVI outputs, plus an HDMI connector. It has, unfortunately, not been given a price yet, but it is backed by a three-year warranty and shouldn't take long to show up in stores.