NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448-Core GPU Review

Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448-Core
Brand: NVIDIA

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 09:00 AM EDT

Before bringing this article to a close, we'd like to cover a few final data points--namely power consumption, noise, and overclocking. Throughout all of our benchmarking and testing, we monitored how much power our test system was consuming using a power meter. Our goal was to give you an idea as to how much power each configuration used while idling and while under a heavy workload. Please keep in mind that we were testing total system power consumption at the outlet here, not just the power being drawn by the graphics cards alone.

Total System Power Consumption

Tested at the Outlet

As its framerates have suggested throughout our testing, the new GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448-Core Limited Edition card's power consumptions characteristics are in-line with is performance. While idling, the card consumed only slightly more power than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti and slightly less than the GTX 570. The same is true for its power consumption while under load, but it was closer to the GeForce GTX 570 than the lower-end Ti card.

Tags: GeForce, Gaming, graphics, Zotac, GPU, dx11, GTX 560 Ti, 448 cores

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com