For those of you looking to pick up a new graphics card this holiday season, NVIDIA is releasing a limited-edition high-end card: the GeForce GTX 560 Ti with 448 CUDA cores. The MSRP is $289, though that will vary based on card manufacturer.
The GPU has 448 shader cores and 1.2GB/320-bit GDDR5 VRAM with 3.8 Gbps bandwidth. You can use up to three cards in SLI and each one draws 210 W and needs two 6-pin connectors.
Performance figures seem solid, placing it rather close to the GTX 570. At its price level the GPU's main competition is the AMD Radeon 6950, to which it compares favorably, showing 5-10% increase in FPS and benchmarking scores. So if you're looking for a high-end card, but don't want to take the plunge on a $500+ card, this may be a viable option.
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7:00 PM on 11.30.2011 | 
You might as well have written this in wingdings.
Have you considered the 590? It's two 580s on the same PCB with slightly slower clock speeds that will save you 250-270 bucks over a pair of 580s.
210w tho, ouch. i would love to see the cooling solution to someone actually attempting to run three cards at once
The answer to every PC cooling question is, and will always be, liquid helium. Sure it's not that practical, but it gets results! You can't really argue with temps as low as -220 degrees F.
If you MUST do something that isn't ridiculous to the point of stupidity, there's always immersing the whole thing in a non-conductive fluid like these guys do: http://www.hardcorecomputer.com/index.html
Well, keep in mind that this uses 2 x 6-pin power connectors. A card that requires 1 x 8-pin and 1 x 6-pin has 300W at its disposal.
@Blake Stone
Don't forget that you're supposed to use liquid nitrogen first to get it pretty cold before using liquid helium. LN2 is cheaper.
And because the helium is so cold that if you just start with that you can cause thermal shock and crack the chip.
Simply put, chips that couldn’t pass requisite testing for GTX 570 use but were still workable are being used for 560 Ti 448 cards."
Ha. It's not Limited Edition, It's the leftover scraps edition.
Maximum settings everything.
I have a 580 card sitting in my Amazon box now. I'm not *that* enthusiastic about paying $500 + shipping, and would love a good sale. Maybe hopefully some day. But if something like this can come close to the 580's performance in most cases, I'd take a good hard look at it.
$289 isn't too bad, and a card like this will probably carry you for a while.