Thread: GIGABYTE GTX560 Ti SOC Mini Testing

Finally managed to get my hands on this VGA today. I have been eagerly waiting for this graphics card as it's the fastest 560 Ti (pronounced "Ty") out the box on the market today (an honour it may share with others in future but we will see).
It looks very similar to the GTX460 SOC, in fact it uses the same D33006 PCB.

The cooling is also identical, as it uses a special Windforce cooler, which has 4 copper heatpipes and two 80mm angled fans which are virtually noise free.
Power delivery and signal cleanign is taken care of by the NEC Proadlizer quintuple chip as with the other SOC products (NEC Tolkin 0E907 with 900uFcapacitance).
Power is taken care of by a 7-phase system with 2 additional for the memory it seems.
for voltage regulation you will also find the same ADP4100 chip.
(to remove OVP you will have to bridge the resistor (or change it's resistance to anything but zero) RX273 on the north west side of this chip, do not remove it!, it's the last one at the top of the row of 12 on the west side of the chip)

The memory is identical to what was on the GTX460SOC, but the memory controller on the GF114 has been improved and with GIGABYTE's binning the same SAMSUNG HC04 SDRAM rated at 5000MHz runs out the box at 2290MHz (DDR, QDR is 4580)

The rest is standard affair with a mini HDMI output (supports uncompressed LPCM audio), 2xdual link DVI outputs as well with HDCP.

Now that that's done for, lets move on to what matters. The clocks

Gigabyte sells this card out the factory at an alarming 1GHz (Front End or Global clock) /2GHz (Shader clock) and with the memory at 2290MHz as mentioned before.
The performance is just better than that of a standard GTX570 when using the latest 266.66WHQL drivers.

The first test is Heaven using the HWBOT settings and benchmark

In this test the card outpaces the GTX570 as mentioned before


Here the 570 has a negligible advantage of just two points. For all intents and purposes they are matched and offer the exact same performance

Not present here but in Vantage the 570 pulled ahead by about 1,000 points, but in the actual game benchmarks the 560 was always 1.5~2.3fps faster.

Then I did some overclocking of the memory and wouldn't you know it 5,000MHz. Indeed the controller has improved and well the binning is top notch as usual from the SOC line


This is a fantastic VGA card
It'll cost you less than a 570 or HD6950 (2GB), draw less power and offer roughly the same performance and sometimes better.
Definite winner this one.