ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II TOP (ENGTX560) Graphic Card Review

The Card

Here’s some photos of the beauty.

Test Setup

The computer setup used for this review.

Below is the GPU-Z for the card.

The Performance

Crysis

Graphic Detail : Maximum @ 1680×1050

Mafia II

Graphic Detail : Maximum @ Full HD

Lost Planet 2

Graphic Detail : Maximum @ Full HD

Alien Vs Predator

Graphic Detail : Default setting @ Full HD

*The Radeon HD 6950 cards fail badly with Physx enabled. When Physx disabled, it goes to 58.4 fps.

Furmark

Graphic Detail : Maximum @ Full HD

Unigine Heaven 2.0

Graphic Detail : Full HD, 4xAA, 16xAF, Tesselation at NORMAL.

Operating Temperature

Furmark was used for graphic card stressing.

Readings were taken when ambient temperature was around 25°C.

– Load, Furmark was run for 1 minute at Full HD with 4xAA.
– Stress, Furmark was run under the Stress Test mode for 5 minutes.

Conclusion

Cards with the nVidia GTX 560 Ti GPU are really of great value, same could be said about this Asus product. The custom cooler kept the temperature below 70c. Remember that the 77c was on Furmark’s stress test but in actual gaming, I doubt the temperatures would even touch 67c constantly.

While the GTX 560 TI cards are generally about RM 150 – 200 more than the GTX 550 Ti cards, they’re actually of better value for money. The GTX 550 Ti doesn’t even overtake my GTX 460’s performance at 1680×1050 but here seen on Full HD tests, the GTX 560 Ti is clearly ahead of the GTX 460.

I would whole-heartedly recommend the GTX 460 if you want things cheap (assuming you still can locate one) however if you can just wait for a bit, save up for the GTX 560 Ti card. 🙂