EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2Win Dual GPU Review

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While there were some minor stumbling blocks throughout testing which were largely a byproduct of the GTX 560 Ti’s memory bandwidth limitations, the 2Win performed flawlessly. However, the true value of EVGA’s GTX 560 Ti 2Win will lie in the eyes of the beholder. For those who are strapped for space but can’t justify (or find) an expensive, power hungry GTX 590, it provides an excellent gaming experience and bridges the gap between NVIDIA’s flagship product and a GTX 580. Standing on the other side of that fence will be the people who just can’t see a use for dual GPU card when two individual GTX 560 Tis cost less. Nonetheless, we feel that EVGA has released an innovative product that will certainly find good traction among specific enthusiast circles.

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Can you do quad sli with these? I know that you couldn't with the GTX 460 version and that had an sli connector too.

But for what point? I would think 1gb ram will limit this card alone for quite a bit in some games. 2 of theese would be limited for shure.
Then again, quad sli isnt really worth it for gaming, just benching and i guess 1gb ram is fine then.

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Originally Posted by eXa

But for what point? I would think 1gb ram will limit this card alone for quite a bit in some games. 2 of theese would be limited for shure.
Then again, quad sli isnt really worth it for gaming, just benching and i guess 1gb ram is fine then.

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Quad sli and tri-sli tend to have a lot less microstutter. Reviews only tell half of the story when they just show an average and occasionally minimum framerate. I do agree that the memory may hold it back a bit.

Looks like a great card to use in cases where you can cram in a pair of 560 TIs into your case. Would help if it was a little cheaper than SLI 560s.. you'd think there'd be some savings. I guess the design work kept the price high.

or get 4 of these on 1 rig for GPU grid or something like that

Quad SLI is not supported on GTX 560 Ti cards.

PCPerspective's Review
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphic...cs-Card-Review

Anandtech's Review
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5048/e...er-of-two-gpus

does it fail like 460 2Win

In that it does not support sli with an addititional GTX560TI, then yes. Considering you can get a HD6870x2 and CF it with a HD6870, this is not the best route for the money. Since two GTX570's would cost you maybe a $100 more depending on rebates and such, I think it would be a mistake to got with this card. Now if it was in the $400 price range and you could SLI it with other cards for Tri-SLI or Quad-SLI, then it would be a winner. You would think EVGA would have leaned this from the GTX4602Win card.

It seems like depending on your monitor configuration, you're better off either going with a GTX 570, GTX 580, or simply two GTX 560 Ti cards in SLI (considering the price).

I still think it looks pretty cool.

IF this was 2GB per GPU, i would buy 2 asap.

Nawrr was totally about to get a 460 2Win for the GF's comp and now this pops out.

Wish we'd be able to get them in Australia though.

-PB

2GB of RAM per GPU would have made this better along with the ability to Tri and/or Quad-SLI these would indeed made this '2 Win'.

Yeah but lack of Quad SLI is a restriction by the GF GPU not so much what the manufacturers do with it.

-PB

LOL @ the 2GB memory per GPU complaints.

Do you REALLY think that the GF114 GPU can process enough information to adequately feed 2GB of memory?

I'll give you a hit: NO!

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Originally Posted by SKYMTL

LOL @ the 2GB memory per GPU complaints.

Do you REALLY think that the GF114 GPU can process enough information to adequately feed 2GB of memory?

I'll give you a hit: NO!

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+1.

GTX 560 Ti sees absolutely no improvement from having 2 Gb Vram. In any situation where that much Vram would really be needed (nothing which yet exists at 1920x1200), the GPU on this card would be too slow for it and you would need at least a pair of 3 Gb GTX 580s anyway.

People always want things that they dont need, and in this case wont provide even the slightest benefit. I'm yet to be limited by my SLI GTX 560 Tis in any game at 1920x1200 resolution and 4x MSAA.

In every benchmark except for BF3 in that review, the 2 x GTX 560 Ti significantly beats a single GTX 580, even at 2560x1600 resolution. That is what makes this card such an attractive SLI option - same, or even less cost than a GTX 580, more performance.

As for the BF3 results, I really cant tell what went wrong in that review, but heres how they actually perform:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZoSU...layer_embedded

Other people with two of these cards have reported a solid 60-100 FPS with Ultra settings, 2x MSAA, and far more with FXAA in BF3 (its still playable at 4x MSAA, but most people want at least 60 in FPS games).

Civ V is another game which has always been incredibly demanding ever since it was launched. People keep on blaming the coding or lack of optimization on it, but I'm running it without any hiccups at a constant 60 FPS (Vsync enabled with SLI ofc) and absolutely no lag, FPS spikes or any other problem other than waiting time in between turns (not a graphics problem - oh, and all settings on max and 4x MSAA).

Everyone that has bought a 1 Gb GTX 560 ti SLI setup on my recommendation so far have been nothing but thoroughly impressed by how great they perform. No one using this setup that I have yet seen have ever complained about lag spikes or microstutter in any recent and old video game.

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Originally Posted by BababooeyHTJ

Quad sli and tri-sli tend to have a lot less microstutter. Reviews only tell half of the story when they just show an average and occasionally minimum framerate. I do agree that the memory may hold it back a bit.

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Yet again, you are wrong about everything regarding SLI as usual.

Are you saying 2 (yes this is 2 not 1) 560 TI cant play games maxed @ 1920x1200? And that 1gb is enough for a single GTX580?

1920x1200:
Crysis Warhead 1393mb
Dragon age 2 1115mb
Metro 2033 1443mb
Napoleon Total War 1235mb
Total war shogun 2 1547mb
The witcher 2 1152mb
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...php?t=18284509

And personally ive seen 1790mb usage so far in BF3

Look at this too:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...y-at-1920x1200

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Originally Posted by eXa

Are you saying 2 (yes this is 2 not 1) 560 TI cant play games maxed @ 1920x1200? And that 1gb is enough for a single GTX580?

1920x1200:
Crysis Warhead 1393mb
Dragon age 2 1115mb
Metro 2033 1443mb
Napoleon Total War 1235mb
Total war shogun 2 1547mb
The witcher 2 1152mb
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...php?t=18284509

And personally ive seen 1790mb usage so far in BF3

Look at this too:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...y-at-1920x1200

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I'm a little curious about those numbers- are they calculating the VRAM usage on each card and then adding them together?

Under an SLI configuration, there is a copy of the same data in each GPU's dedicated VRAM, correct?

The result would be the same for a singel card.

Battlefield 3

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/6315/unledtyh.jpg

http://www.guru3d.com/article/evga-g...ge%20to%20Load

Dont forget HH have use 4xMSAA + FXAA ... the result are completely different with only FXAA (as shown really well on Hardwarecanucks review ).... i have no problem at 1920x1080 with 2x MSAA or only FXAA with 2x HD 5870 1gb . i got 85 to 110fps average and the worst minimum fps i have seen was 61fps .. ofc it can be a little bit lower in some case ( i don't use fraps or ingame report all the time when i play )

In reality i start to think the problem don't reside in Texture who should be what use the Vram, but with the MSAA in game or in a memory leak for BF3.. i mean textures are not so " perfect " in BF3 they should require so much vram. and i don't think MSAA will use so much memory. Or all reviews shows the same things, when you use 4xMSAA the cards with "only" 1024mb goes down.


Again, it's sad we have not seen this 560TI 2win months ago ... we are in november, if all is going well, we should start to see new Nvidia cards in 3months.

EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2 WIN 2GB DirectX11 Video Card Review - HiTech Legion

Unboxing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiG14JRjjpU

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Originally Posted by bhavv

+1.

GTX 560 Ti sees absolutely no improvement from having 2 Gb Vram. In any situation where that much Vram would really be needed (nothing which yet exists at 1920x1200), the GPU on this card would be too slow for it and you would need at least a pair of 3 Gb GTX 580s anyway.

People always want things that they dont need, and in this case wont provide even the slightest benefit. I'm yet to be limited by my SLI GTX 560 Tis in any game at 1920x1200 resolution and 4x MSAA.

In every benchmark except for BF3 in that review, the 2 x GTX 560 Ti significantly beats a single GTX 580, even at 2560x1600 resolution. That is what makes this card such an attractive SLI option - same, or even less cost than a GTX 580, more performance.

As for the BF3 results, I really cant tell what went wrong in that review, but heres how they actually perform:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZoSU...layer_embedded

Other people with two of these cards have reported a solid 60-100 FPS with Ultra settings, 2x MSAA, and far more with FXAA in BF3 (its still playable at 4x MSAA, but most people want at least 60 in FPS games).

Civ V is another game which has always been incredibly demanding ever since it was launched. People keep on blaming the coding or lack of optimization on it, but I'm running it without any hiccups at a constant 60 FPS (Vsync enabled with SLI ofc) and absolutely no lag, FPS spikes or any other problem other than waiting time in between turns (not a graphics problem - oh, and all settings on max and 4x MSAA).

Everyone that has bought a 1 Gb GTX 560 ti SLI setup on my recommendation so far have been nothing but thoroughly impressed by how great they perform. No one using this setup that I have yet seen have ever complained about lag spikes or microstutter in any recent and old video game.



Yet again, you are wrong about everything regarding SLI as usual.

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Have you read any reviews? For resolutions over 1920 x 1080 you can start to see the impact of Vram. Hardocp has showed this over the last year or so with all their triple monitor gaming reviews. Tomshardware did a review showing that Tri-CF/Tri-SLI was the best setup to avoid microstuttering. Have you read about the issues of BF3 and SLI/CF? Single GPU cards do not have the same issues. Granted, this should change with new driver updates, but a single GTX580 would be a abetter choice right now. And as far as price goes, you can get a GTX580 for around $400 almost weekly, so these are not in the same price point. As it was stated earlier, if this had come out 6 months ago it would have been a serious consideration, but being that the point of this is to allow triple monitor game play from a single Nvidia card like the GTX590, it's just not a contender.

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Originally Posted by Utnorris

Have you read any reviews? For resolutions over 1920 x 1080 you can start to see the impact of Vram. Hardocp has showed this over the last year or so with all their triple monitor gaming reviews. Tomshardware did a review showing that Tri-CF/Tri-SLI was the best setup to avoid microstuttering. Have you read about the issues of BF3 and SLI/CF? Single GPU cards do not have the same issues. Granted, this should change with new driver updates, but a single GTX580 would be a abetter choice right now. And as far as price goes, you can get a GTX580 for around $400 almost weekly, so these are not in the same price point. As it was stated earlier, if this had come out 6 months ago it would have been a serious consideration, but being that the point of this is to allow triple monitor game play from a single Nvidia card like the GTX590, it's just not a contender.

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I'm sorry but no. Granted, on high end cards with massive video processing capabilities, extra VRAM MAY come in handy and in some games it WILL be beneficial.

However, on lower end cards like the GTX 560 Ti, once in-game details are increased to the point where memory needs increase past the 1GB mark, the GPU architecture becomes a bottleneck rather than the memory itself. You have to remember that acceptable performance requires the memory AND GPU to work in parallel. If either one can't process info fast enough then the whole shebang falls apart very quickly.

People can throw around numbers like 1.7GB for BF3 or 1.1GB for Dragon Age 2 but that doesn't necessarily mean that more memory on a mid range card will actually allow for PLAYABLE framerates. Sure, a 2GB GTX 560 Ti will outperform a 1GB card in high resolution, high IQ situations but if one gets 10 FPS and the other nets 15 FPS, what's the use?