Although we've seen plenty of proficient things from Nvidia's latest GeForce GTX 570 and 580, both cards are too pricey for the mainstream bracket equally many gamers adopt to spend less than $300 on a GPU upgrade. For those folks, AMD is currently offer the Radeon HD 6870 and Hd 6850 graphics cards ($240 and $180, respectively) while Nvidia's solution consists of the 6-month-quondam GeForce GTX 460 768MB ($160) and 1GB ($200).

It was just a affair of fourth dimension until Nvidia added a mainstream functioning graphics card to its GTX 500 series, and today we accept that product. Known as the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, this new graphics card will retail for $250, placing information technology in direct contest with the Radeon Hd 6870.

Earlier this calendar month some users discovered the GeForce GTX 560 Ti when sifting through the leaked 266.44 GeForce driver. The discovery of the upcoming graphics card in itself wasn't that interesting every bit we all knew it was coming. What did catch our attention was the difference from traditional naming conventions by resurrecting a suffix that has been fallow since the GeForce iv Ti 4800 and Ti 4600. Those products engagement as back as 2002.

The GeForce 4 Ti 4200 is perchance the most remembered product from this family. The card went down as a legendary offering due to its bonny pricing and splendid overclocking abilities.

Possibly Nvidia is trying to transport a subliminal bulletin, wanting to put their new GeForce GTX 560 Ti in a similar light to the now aboriginal GeForce iv Ti 4200. Whatsoever the case may exist, you lot won't hear united states complaining if they make up one's mind to deliver nifty value on a operation oriented mainstream bill of fare.

Our friends over at Gigabyte were kind plenty to send usa their revision of the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which we've put to the test confronting 15 other offerings in all price ranges to get you the full motion-picture show on today'due south GPU landscape.