Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 details leaked
With 384 stream processors, could the GeForce GTX 560 effectively counter AMD's Radeon HD 6950?
Fabricated using TSMC's 40nm process, the GeForce GTX 560 is reportedly designed as a cheaper alternative to the company's GeForce GTX 570 and GeForce GTX 580 GPUs, without drastically sacrificing performance.
According to a GPU-Z screenshot spotted by TechPowerUp, the GPU will include 384 stream processors, 32 ROPs and a 256-bit memory interface, along with 1GB of GDDR5 memory.
The core GPU clock is said to be set at 820MHz, with the stream processors running at 1,640MHz and the GDDR5 memory set at 1GHz (4GHz effective). This should result in around 128GB/s of overall memory bandwidth. According to the grapevine, the chip is based on the same GF104 chip used in its predecessor, the GeForce GTX 460, but using the full allocation of 384 stream processors, rather than the 336 found in the GTX 460.
The clock speeds also represent a significant boost over its predecessor, and could help the GPU hit the performance levels it needs to seriously compete with the Radeon HD 6950.
There's no news on pricing yet, but cards based around the new GPU are expected to launch in January from a variety of hardware partners.
Could the GeForce GTX 560 offer serious competition to AMD's Radeon HD 6950, or has the green camp misjudged this round of the battle? Share your thoughts over in the forums.
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I don't really know enough about this sort of thing but if its based on the same gf104 as the 460 just with an extra section unlocked. Could it be possible to unlock a 460 to a 560? (assuming the locked off section is only disabled, not somehow removed and also not faulty) Maybe at a lower clock speed but still with an increase in performance. I think a similar thing was done with some of the 465's unlocking to 470's(some point of view's maybe?)
I doubt that it's going to be faster than a 480, The 570 is usually on par with the 480. So I suspect the numbers to be around the 470, give or take. Just a hunch. Although the 470 is 448 stream processors. I wonder if They've made the improvements on the GF104 chip that they did for the 110's? Hopefully better thermals for overclocking :)
Depended on the game and the settings, plus it needed a pretty handsome overclock to do that in every case. The 465 was just crap. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2010/12/01/msi-n460gtx-hawk-review/1
I don't think it'll unseat the 570's spot, why would Nvidia do that? Plus the numbers don't show as much horsepower under the hood as the 570. I think that the 560 will probably run about the speeds of the 470, that's all I'm saying.
A 460 at or around 800-850 core clock can at least match a GTX470 in the round (or at least be within a few percent to make the difference inperceptible).
The product placement for this 560 seems slightly odd though.
As it currently stands there is only a small gap (in terms of real world gaming performance) between the HD6950 - GTX570 - HD6970 - GTX580. If the GTX560 is designed to be slightly faster than the HD6950 then it will be VERY close to the GTX570 making the latter seem slightly pointless (kind of like what happened to the GTX470 when the GTX460 launched).
Hopefully the 560 will significantly undercut the HD6950 in price otherwise it might be a bit of a hard sell. Of course if it does undercut the HD6950 pricing AND is faster, then what happens to the GTX570? Are we going to see another GTX470 style fire sale?
6870 < 560 < 6950 < 570 < 6970 < 580
NVidia likes to fill in the gaps in AMD/ATI's lineup. As has been mentioned already, they're not going to place it anywhere hear the 570, they'd rather make people choose a 560 over an AMD card than another of their own.
6950 is another class for another resolution, and it's not the best choice for 1080/1200 single monitors.
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