Nvidia Rolls Out Special Edition GTX 560 Ti With 448 Cores

Posted 11/29/2011 at 11:16am | by Brad Chacos

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Just in time for the holiday season, Nvidia’s rolling out a new promotional GPU in select markets (read: US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Russia and the Nordic countries). The GeForce GTX 560 Ti With 448 Cores – and yes, that’s its actual name – is built around a toned-down version of the same GF110 GPU that powers the higher-end GTX 570 and GTX 580, rather than the GF114 GPU that the traditional GTX 560 Ti runs on. Its 448 CUDA cores places the promotional GPU squarely between the normal GTX 560 Ti (which has 384 cores) and the GTX 570 (which has 480 cores).

Specs? Sure. The graphics clock in at 732 MHz while the shader clock speed for all those CUDA cores is 1.464 GHz. The 1,280MB of onboard GDDR5 memory hums along at 950 MHz (3.8 GHz data rate). Since these cards are based on the GF110 GPU, the GTX 560 Ti with 448 Cores is fully capable of three-way SLI, something the standard GTX 560 Ti can’t say. AnandTech has a review up that lists full specs and does a good job of comparing the GTX 560 Ti with 448 Cores against other Nvidia 5xx cards.

Manufacturers are already tripping over themselves to offer up cards based around the GTX 560 Ti with 448 Cores; Asus, MSI, Zotac, Gigabyte and others have all announced that they’ve launched models in various configurations today, starting at $289. Grab ‘em while they’re hot, folks – being a promotional GPU, when they’re gone, they’re gone.