GTX 550Ti Vs GTX 560 SE Vs HD 7770 Benchmark results 2012-2013

Few reviews are available about this graphic card, the Nvidia Geforce GTX 560 SE edition, so we are here for help to make the best decision on this Nvidia product, its graphic card that we can place it between the GTX 550 Ti and the GTX 560, the guys over qk123.com, a Chinese website managed to get their hands on a Galaxy GTX 560 SE puting the thing in to the benchies, so how this one perform compared with the GTX 560 and GTX 550 Ti, in addition to a comparison with the AMD Radeon HD 7770, now, lets begin with the specification of the card.

GF114-200-KB-A1

The Nvidia Geforce GTX 560 SE or Smart Edition is build to target the AMD Radeon HD 7770 graphic card which have the same price tag, the GPU is a GF114 exactly "GF114-200-KB-A1" based on the 40nm process, packing 288 Cuda cores, 48 TMUs, 24 ROPs, and a 192-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, talking about frequency, the core clock is set to 736Mhz, shaders @ 1472Mhz and effective GDDR5 memory clock is at 3828MHz, these can change depending on branding.

Geforce GTX 560 SE GPU-Z specifications:

Geforce GTX 560 GPU-Z specifications:

Benchmarks selection

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 Unigine heaven DX10/11 benchmark test:

3D Mark 2011 benchmark result:

GTX 560 SE Overclocking ability test:

3DMark 2011 Benchmark Scores Vs HD 7770:

via community.futuremark

As we already said on the beginning, the Nvidia GTX 560 SE stand between the GTX 550Ti and the GTX 560, but when overclocking this card it can reach a faster performance up to 18924 on 3DMark Vantage, and when compared with the AMD HD7770 at standard clock they are very close at both price and performance, so its up to you to chose between the GTX 560 SE or HD7770.

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ASUS GTX580 DirectCU II HD Preview and Updates

Here are some pictures and a video preview of the new GTX580 DirectCU II graphic card from ASUS leaked on its asusrog forum , the card is based on the high-end Nvidia GTX 580 GPU.

The ASUS GTX580 DirectCU II  feature the Direct CU (Copper) heatpipes that make a direct contact onto the GPU and a big heatsink along with dual 100MM fans and for unique feature the ASUS GTX580 DirectCU II has a Super Alloy Power technology which consist of high end chokes, mosfet and capacitors with 150.000 hours lifespan , this fat card take three slots space on your case , and you can imagine the space of three cards installed in SLI mode :p .

New super alloy chokes technology installed :

Direct CU technology cooling diagram :

ASUS GTX580 DirectCU II Pictures :

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