NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448-Core GPU 127
MojoKid writes "NVIDIA has just launched the GeForce GTX 560 Ti with 448 cores. Though perhaps a bit unimaginative in terms of branding, the new GeForce GTX 560 Ti with 448 cores is outfitted with the same GF110 GPU powering high-end GeForce GTX 570 and GTX 580 cards, but with a couple of its streaming multiprocessors fused off. The card has 448 CUDA cores arranged in 14 SMs, with 56 texture units and 40 ROPs. Reference specifications call for a 732MHz core clock with 1464MHz CUDA cores. 1.2GB of GDDR5 memory is linked to the GPU via a 320-bit bus and the memory is clocked at an effective 3800MHz data rate. Performance-wise, the new GPU proved to be about 10 to 15 percent faster than the original GeForce GTX 560 Ti and a few percentage points slower than the GeForce GTX 570."
Insane power consumption (Score:4, Interesting)
Its pretty difficult to get precise power figures on graphics cards - reviews always rate against 'total system' but never give us for reference the system power use without the card (or perhaps an onboard video solution). In any event, all modern cards are total power pigs. At a time where Intel and AMD try are trying very hard to reduce cpu power consumption, graphics cards are using up many multiples of those savings. I'm not sure where 'it has a wall outlet plug' gave these card and gpu producers license to subsidize the power companies.
Re:Expensive much? (Score:4, Interesting)
I remember when a megabyte of RAM dropped to under $1,000,000, when we switched from core to semiconductor technology circa 1972. And we thought it a great advance.
Now get off my lawn, noob.