Asus GeForce GTX 560 Ti DirectCU 2 448 cores 1280MB GDDR5 PCIe

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 5 expert reviews

Excellent:

3
Good:

1
Average:

0
Bad:

1

Pros:

Price includes Batman Arkham City (when bought from NewEgg).
8phase Digital PWM.
Overclocking performance.

Cons:

Takes up three PCIe slots.
Heavy card causes extra stress on motherboard PCIe slot.

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Last revision on July 24, 2013

Reviewers Liked

Price includes Batman Arkham City (when bought from NewEgg)
8phase Digital PWM
Overclocking performance
Dualfan design
Triple SLI capable
GPU Tweak
GPU Guard
ASUS Super Alloy Power
NVIDIA 3D Vision
6pin power LED debug
EMI Shield
Native fullsize HDMI & DisplayPort output
Triple slot cooler
4way SLI support
Support for CUDA, PhysX and DirectX 11

Reviewers Didn't Like

Takes up three PCIe slots
Heavy card causes extra stress on motherboard PCIe slot
Not overclocked out of the box
Card could be quieter, considering it's a triple slot design
Power consumption a good deal higher than GF114 based GTX 560 Ti
Triple slot cooler might not be for all (SLI, small cases)
Only two active display outputs

Expert reviews and ratings

So let's get the obvious stuff out of the way early.At stock, the ASUS is pretty much on a par with the other 448 Core cards we've tested, although because it doesn't come overclocked out of the box the MSI generally edges ahead. Although...

By Overclock3D on December 12, 2011

Asus is the first company to get this limited edition GTX 560 Ti 448 Core graphics card onto our testbench.Now the dreaded limited edition tag has been handed to graphics cards many times over the years and generally it doesn't make for good things....

By TechRadar on December 01, 2011

If NVIDIA set out to fill a vacuum between the standard GeForce GTX 560 Ti and GeForce GTX 570, it more than achieved it with the new GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 cores. Cards based on this new SKU are priced somewhere in between the price-points of the...

By techPowerUp! on November 29, 2011

100

With the new GeForce GTX560 Ti 448 Core NVIDIA were clearly aiming to fill a particular price gap in their product range and the chip they have created to fill this achieves that task well. We get a part which has all of the great features present on...

By HardwareHeaven on January 01, 2006

The ASUS GTX 560 Ti 448 even though on the market for a while still has a place long after its release. With no NVidia card based on the Kepler below the GTX 670, this card is definitely a winner when it comes to price vs. performance. If you budget...

By Pro-Clockers on June 05, 2012

The ASUS GTX 560 Ti 448 cores DirectCU II is an excellent, almost perfect, product that has only one noticeable downside. It is as thick as 58 millimeters and blocks as many as three expansion slots on the mainboard. We guess this won’t be a big...

By X-bit Labs on March 06, 2012

100

Une excellente carte graphique destinée aux joueurs soucieux d'activer toutes les options graphiques dans les jeux. Comme toujours, son prix est à surveiller de près pour juger de son intérêt, d'autant plus que la...

By Les Numériques on December 30, 2011

Si la GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores DirectCU II d'Asus dispose sans conteste d'un système de refroidissement très performant, celui-ci souffre par contre de deux défauts : il manque de discrétion au repos et il monopolise pas...

By Hardware France on December 17, 2011

Geforce GTX 560 Ti? Während Nvidia im Hintergrund bereits massiv an einer neuen Grafikkarten-Generation arbeitet und von dieser bereits Anfang 2012 erste Vorabexemplare fertigstellen will, kommt pünktlich zum Weihnachtsgeschäft noch ein...

By Chip.de on December 02, 2011

Unsere nachfolgende Gesamtwertung bezieht sich ausschließlich auf den aktuellen Status Quo und das aktuelle Testfeld und spiegelt in der Zusammenfassung unsere Erfahrungen im Test wieder. Man gelangt mittels Klick auf die einzelne Wertungskategorie...

By HardTecs4U on November 30, 2011

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