Coming Soon: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE Video Cards
NVIDIA is said to be preparing another GeForce GTX 560 video card to the market according to online rumors. The new video card will be called the GeForce GTX 560 SE and will be based on the GF114 ‘Fermi’ core. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE is said to use a GF114 GPU that has two of the Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs) disabled. This means that rather than having for a total of 384 CUDA cores (stream processors) that it will have just 288. VR-Zone is reporting that the core is clocked at 776 MHz and shaders at 1552 MHz. The card is said to have 1GB GDDR5 memory clocked at 3828 MHz on a 192-bit bus for a total bandwidth of 92 GB/s. It sounds like NVIDIA is releasing this card to compete with the AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition that was just released this week.
GTX 560 SE will offer similar performance to GTX 555 OEM and is squarely aimed at AMD’s latest Radeon HD 7770. While the aging GF114 is never going to match the performance/watt ratio offered by AMD’s latest 28nm GPUs, the GTX 560 SE will offer excellent performance/price value if priced around the $150 mark – much like the GTX 460 SE did towards the end of GF104’s relatively short life cycle. The GTX 560 SE is being rushed to the market and should be available within weeks. Looking forward, we hope this is the last in a long line of muddled GTX 560 branding and the next major graphics card from NVIDIA be GK104 based.
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