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Nvidia isn't quite ready to confirm or dispel rumors about its upcoming GeForce GTX 560 videocard, choosing instead to wait until the card launches on May 17th before revealing complete product details. In the meantime, Nvidia coughed up a sliver of performance information, what it considers optimal playable settings for a handful of games, and a teaser video of the GTX 560 in action.
"Situated between the GeForce GTX 460 and GeForce GTX 560 Ti in terms of price and performance, the GeForce GTX 560 allows gamers to effectively play the latest and greatest games at 1920x1080 whilst simultaneously enabling the use of GPU-intensive featues such as Nvidia 3D Vision and PhysX," Nvidia said. "Furthermore, with two GTX 560s, owners can run games at the ultra-wide 5760x1080 resolution in Nvidia Surround."
Nvidia said it designed the GTX 560 to be able to play modern games in Full HD without breaking the bank. Using a testbed consisting of an Intel Core i7 2600K processor, Asus P8P67 WS Revolution motherboard, 8GB of DDR3-1333 memory, and Windows 7 64-bit, Nvidia demonstrates the GTX 560 running a few games at 1920x1080. In Duke Nukem Forever, Nvidia said the GTX 560 was able to handle that resolution with the following settings:
Nvidia then tested the GTX 560 in Alice: Madness Returns using PhysX and Dragon Siege III, listing playable settings for each one. You can check it all out here.
Take this with a grain of salt, but according to leaked info, the GTX 560 will sport 336 CUDA cores (same as the GTX 460), 56 texture units, and 1GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit memory interface. Best guess estimates put the price at around $200.
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Spunkify
May 13, 2011 at 9:48am
Duke is an old engine and old models and its only saying it can do most of the settings on medium? Even at that resolution id expect max settings except for AA :/
Kethsar
May 13, 2011 at 10:00am
Is it really that bad? It has been in developement hell since the year I was born.
