NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 3D Vision Benchmarks Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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welcome to my 3D Vision video with the GTX 560 so for this trick I will require
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an ASUS 120 HZ 23.6 in LCD monitor
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capable of 3D Vision okay so I'll need a
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3D Vision ready monitor 1080p I will also need NVIDIA 3D Vision
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glasses which are here with a security
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device attached to them not that I stole them
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they came with that okay I will also need a 3D Vision ready video card in
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this case I actually have four different well these are sort of similar 3D Vision
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ready video card so I have the GTX 580 which retails for about 500 bucks I have
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the GTX 560 TI all new so I have a twin
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frozer 2 version and I also have a
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reference NVIDIA stock clocked version and then last but not least I have a GTX
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460 so these guys retail around 250 to 280 and this guy retails at uh a little
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bit lower so it's kind of the last generation 560 ti so the point of this
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video is to show you guys how these cards compare to each other in a 1080p
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High detail gaming 3D environment well
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with 3D so stereoscopic 3D I only use a
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small cross-section of games but I'm going to test the 460 by itself the 560
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by itself 560s in SLI because at that
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price point they're very similar in price to a single 580 which I will also
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be comparing because it is the cream of the crop for single
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cards so guys what I have on the test bench right now is my dual GTX 560s
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although I have the driver configured right now so that I'm only using one of
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them so I'm testing it's single 560 I'm
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testing 580 I'm testing dual 4 dual 560
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TI and I'm also testing a 460 in order
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to find out what's going to give the most satisfactory 3D gaming experiences
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in my test games here so this one I would consider dual or
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single 560 not really playable uh at
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1080p remember I am running four times anti-aliasing eight times AF um I'm
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running everything on Max at 1080P and then it's rendering it from two
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different angles at the same time which is a lot more demanding for the
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GPU so it's actually quite challenging for me to do my run through like this
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because the frame rate is so um well
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unsatisfactory but I'm doing my I'm doing my best with it here so that I can
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provide the results that you guys want but anyway yeah so my graphs are
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upcoming and I'm going to show you guys how all these different configs are
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going to perform with 3D Vision which I
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mean I've said it before and I'll say it again is pretty much the most most
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immersive experience short of 3D Vision surround that you can buy
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today oh my goodness I'm not going to be able to kill these guys unless I like do
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that oh do you turn it off
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already so as you can see from the charts and graphs the data is pretty
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interesting because the GTX 560 TI in
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SLI do outperform the single GTX
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580 in two of the tests whereas the GTX
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580 outperforms the 560 TI in one of the
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3D Vision tests so what that means to me
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especially given the narrow margin of victory for either solution is that
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these are similar in performance in 3D Vision so what's interesting about that
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though is that I actually found the 560 TI solution to be slightly less playable
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that is the dips were lower and the Peaks were higher resulting in a similar
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average frame rate but a less satisfactory overall experience so what
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I would probably choose for a purely 3D Vision gaming experience is the GTX 580
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now this contrasts with the results that I was
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able to achieve with the 560s and SLI in
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my other video where I was not running stereoscopic 3 and the 560s despite
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their similar price point actually destroy the GTX 580 that is in
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traditional 3D gaming that is not stereoscopic and does not involve these
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glasses so before we finish up here just want to show you guys the test platform
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that I used so I'm using an Intel x25 M
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80 gig SSD for my boot drive I'm using an MSI p67a gd65 Motherboard I'm using
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an Intel Core i7 2600 K processor it is
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overclocked to 4.7 GHz so that I can
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avoid as much as possible any CPU bottlenecks and then I have 8 gigs of
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mushkin Redline ridgeback
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memory in order to well have memory for
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the system so thank you for checking out my video on the 3D Vision gaming
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experience with the GeForce GTX 560 TI