Final words and conclusion

Final Words & Conclusion

Ever since release the GeForce GTX 560 Ti has been a success story really. For not too much money you can purchase a product that offers very nice mid-range performance. Slowly but steadily the GTX 560 Ti is showing its age a little though, but with product refreshes like shown today from Palit, well that makes the product just massively interesting.

With this level of game rendering performance you can address any modern game up-to say a monitor resolution of 1920x1200 combined with 4x Antialiasing and 16x Anisotropic Filtering. Power consumption isn't really an issue either consuming roughly 170 Watts when it's stressed badly in a game. Mind you, these are peak graphics card power draw levels, the average power consumption will tell another story.

The factory overclock is weirdly enough very mild, we really expected a product clocked at say 880 MHz, the cooler certainly allows for that. But you'll balance out at 68 Degrees C under game load with a noise level that is silent to slightly audible.

Overall you'll notice that the GTX 560 Ti series still really offers a lot. Performance wise you can't complain really; all modern DX11 and lower games will play absolutely fine up-to 1600x1200, and that's with decent image quality settings enabled at say 4xAA and 16xAF + very high in-game quality settings. With the newer DX11 titles and 1920x1200... well it starts to become borderline in terms of performance though.

Much like all other GTX 560 Ti reviews we have written, the success of the product will depend on the pricing level. Palit definitely has a very nice product here on their hands, and they offer it at a price hovering just above the 200 EUR mark here in the Netherlands. Compare that to GeForce GTX 570 cards and your choice can become golden; because remember, with a a little tweak you'll lift this card close to GTX 570 performance. But sure, features and performance wise, this all remains more of the same.

The product is recommend and is a fun card to not just play games with. Honestly, the new cooler looks cool but overall does not offer much more in terms of cooling performance or better noise levels over the reference design. Aesthetically is just looks great though and there's a lot to say for that as well. By the way, typically the Palit PCB color is red, as small of a remark it really is, can we just say the card looks much better with a black PCB?

We are confident this product will not disappoint you. Recommended.

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