NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB and AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB Review

Testing Configurations and System Setup

Our testing methods and titles have been the same for a couple of months now and include some newer titles.  For our GPU comparisons I have setup two different sets of graphs.  The first will look at how the new GeForce GTX 560 Ti compares to the GTX 460 1GB card as well as the Radeon HD 6870 1GB and the new HD 6950 1GB.  The second set will take a single GTX 560 Ti, an SLI configuration of GTX 560 Ti cards as well as a GTX 570 and GTX 580 to see how the upper end lineup for NVIDIA really looks. 

So, for our performance evaluation, you’ll see it setup like this:

• GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB – $249
• GeForce GTX 460 1GB – $185
• Radeon HD 6870 1GB – $229
• Radeon HD 6950 1GB – $259

As well as:

• GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB – $249
• GeForce GTX 560 Ti SLI – $499
• GeForce GTX 570 1.25GB – $349
  
• GeForce GTX 580 1.5GB – $499
  

Here is our test system setup for the benchmarks:

• Testing Configuration
• ASUS P6X58D Premium Motherboard
• Intel Core i7-965 @ 3.33 GHz Processor
• 3 x 2GB Corsair DDR3-1333 MHz Memory
• Western Digital VelociRaptor 600GB HDD
• Corsair Professional Series 1200w PSU
• Benchmarks used: 3DMark Vantage, 3DMark11, Unigine Heaven v2.1, Metro 2033, Lost Planet 2, Civilization V, F1 2010, Bad Company 2, Left 4 Dead 2
  

Let’s get to it!