all right guys another video card launch another length and physical comparison
so this is the NVIDIA reference GeForce
GTX 560 and I'm going to show you just
how long it is and what are the odds it's going to fit in your case compared
to a couple of other popular gpus on the market so I'm going to flip it over
which is going to make it a little bit easier to measure due to the shape of the Shroud and let's do this card first
I actually haven't done this off camera so I have no idea and it's just a hair
over 9 in long so 9 and 1 I guess that's
a 16th 9 and 1 16th so the first thing
we should compare that to against is its direct competition in the market which
is the Radeon 6870 so this one this is a funny
decision to make because you can see AMD has actually put a longer shroud on this
card than the length of the PCB so they've actually made it longer than it
actually is so for this guy what we're
going to end up with is 9 and 78 in so
it has a slight advantage in size over
the 6870 now the next card in our little
informal test here is going to be a GTX
570 this one is going to weigh in at a
whopping 10 and 916 of an inch so it's
got a full inch plus over the GTX 560
reference card and then last but not least I'm going to also show for
comparison the Radeon
69 70 okay so this one is almost 11 in
so 10 and uh 10 and 3/4 I guess that is
so something to bear in mind about this comparison here is that the GTX 570 is
also exactly the same physically as the GTX 580 and that also goes for the 6970
which is exactly the same size as the 6950 bearing in mind these are all
reference cards so if there's any aftermarket coolers or aftermarket PCB
designed ones they could be slightly different so the GTX 560 is truly a
lightweight in terms of its stature but a huge heavy weight in terms of its
performance