14 DAY TRIAL // Already has NVIDIA and its various partners let loose the newest 500 series video controller, and it looks like ECS has finally decided to join in on the fun, having unveiled the ECS GeForce GTX 560.
The IT market may have already had the Geforce GTX 560 Ti graphics adapter running around, but NVIDIA decided to provide a non-Ti version as well.
This card came out about two days ago and, since then, the Santa Clara, California-based company's partners have been head over heels to present their own models.
Most companies came out and produced two or more cards, one stock clocked and another with factory overclocking.
ECS decided not to bother with making more than one, at least for now, having settled for a stock-clocked (mostly) adapter.
It has the GPU working at 810 MHz, while the 336 CUDA cores and the 1 GB of GDDR5 VRAM (whose interface is of 256 bits) operate at 1,620 MHz and 4,000 MHz, respectively. Also, two DVI ports are present, along with a mini-HDMI.
Indeed, the specs aren't what sets the board apart from all other GTX 560, since that role falls to the cooling solution.
Being “designed with cutting-edge welding technology,” the board features the CoolFast cooler, which uses a heatpipe to pull heat out of the GPU and sent it to the heatsink, where it is dispersed by the single fan.
The company claims that the cooling prowess is about 20% higher than that of the stock card.
Of course, the newcomer also has full support for OpenGL 4.1, DirectX 11, CUDA, PhysX, 3D Vision Surround, etc.
Prospective buyers need only drop by the official product page (located here) if they wish to get a first-hand view of all available information on it and make a clear idea of what they'd be spending roughly $200 on.