ZOTAC Announces GeForce GTX 560 Graphic Cards

These graphics cards are a tad slower than the previous GeForce GTX 560 Ti series cards.

Rossi Fernandes|May 18, 2011, 16:54:03 IST

While the GeForce GTX 560 Ti AMP! Edition was reviewed sometime back; it looks like ZOTAC is bringing out the GTX 560 series of graphic cards. These cards come in three versions of 1 GB, 2 GB and an AMP! Edition, as well.

Lies somewhere in between the 550 and the 560 Ti

All three cards pack 336 unified shaders (as compared to 384 of the 560 Ti) for rendering 3D visuals and they also incorporate NVIDIA’s PhysX technology, like most of NVIDIA’s other 500 series graphics cards. Other technologies that the company is continuing with the GeForce 560 is the SLI technology for combining two cards and NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround technology for triple-monitor stereoscopic 3D gaming capabilities.

The AMP! Edition card is factory over-clocked to 950 MHz and the company claims that it to be a 17 percent boost over the stock versions. The memory also receives a boost to 4400 MHz from the 4008 MHz of the other cards. Check out the specifications below for all three cards.

Specifications for all three graphics cards

The 1 GB variant of the GTX 560 is priced at Rs. 11,111 and the 2 GB version will come for Rs. 12,999. The AMP! Edition is priced at Rs. 12,222.

By Rossi Fernandes

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