Gainward GTX 560 Ti 2048MB Fast graphics with a short card

Author: Jouni 'Jipa' Vasama Published: 29.05.2011 Manufacturer: Gainward Product Group: Graphics cards In English Suomeksi

The "Phantom"

The front side of the card is entirely hidden under the Phantom cooler. The GTX560 Ti is a very compact card, but oddly enough this cooler design is actually 2,5 slots high, so don't expect to install any card to the nearest two cards slots. There are four heatpipes moving heat from the GPU to the heatsink, and under the fins there are two 80 mm fans. Overall the cooler looks really promising.

The connections of the card include something we haven't seen in quite a while - a native D-SUB connection for an analog screen. Beside that there's a single DVI-I-connector that can also output analog signal, a DVI-D and a HDMI 1.4a, which also outputs 7.1 sounds. No Display Port support here.

In the other end of the card are the two 6-pin power connectors. The Nvidia-specified maximum power consumption for the card is 170 watts, which is a good 45 W lower than the number specified for the last-gen GTX470. These modified cards can always surprise in the power consumption tests, but generally the new series should be much more energy efficient than the GTX4-series.

Being a model with 2 gigabytes of memory, some of the chips have been placed on the flip side of the pcb. There's no cooling for these eight memory chips, but then the chips on the other side of the card only rely on the fan airflow as well. And from what we've seen, heat just isn't going to be a problem with GDDR5 memory chips anyway.

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