Nvidia unveils GeForce GTX 560 Titanium 448 core

CALIFORNIA, USA: Nvidia Corp, announced on Tuesday thelaunched a new enhanced GeForce GTX 560 Titanium 448 core Limited Edition thatembraces GF110 graphics processor and comes with 448 stream processing units. 

The graphics board gives more horsepower than the regular GeForce GTX 560 Ti(with GF114 chip) and will allow Nvidia to get rid of excessive GF110 chipsahead of next-gen launch, said a press release.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores Limited Edition is basedon the cut-down GF110 graphics processing unit (GPU) with reduced amount ofstream processors (SPs), texture units (TUs), render back ends (RBEs) andmemory channels. The GeForce GTX 560 Ti-448 LE has 448 SPs, 56 TUs, 40 RBEs and320-bit memory bus.

The base clock of the chip is 732MHz, stream processoroperates at 1464MHz and memory functions at 3.80GHz. Nvidia recommends itspartners to install 1280MB of memory onto the new graphics cards, the releaseadded.

The new GeForce GTX 560 Ti-448 LE offers slightly higher(1.311TFLOPS) compute power compared to the original GeForce GTX 560 Ti(1.26TFLOPS), tangibly higher memory bandwidth, significantly highertessellation performance as well as 3-way multi-GPU SLI support. But thenovelty comes at higher price (it costs $289), consumes more power (210W vs.170W) and is longer (10.5" vs. 9") than its brother, which will notallow it to be installed into all computer cases.

Nvidia clearly aims GeForce GTX 560 Ti-448 LE at enthusiastswho did not get GeForce GTX 570 earlier and are currently looking forward agraphics card upgrade ahead of the holiday season. Thanks to the lack of anywell-positioned competitors from AMD, the model GTX 560 Ti-448 LE may become aviable choice for many gamers this year, the release added.