If into moderate overclocking, the Twin Froz is just fine, .....if ya going for the big OC's, I'd avoid the Twin Frozr completely. The MSI Hawk and Lightning 570's both have beefed up non reference VRM's with 8 or more phases.....the Frozr, doesn't .... tho the power edition has 7, the regular Frozr 570's only have 6.
http://www.overclock.net/t/929152/have-you-killed-a-570-no-recent-deaths-buy-some-570s/550
- Gigabyte 570 OC Windforce 3x and MSI 570 TwinFrozr II both use the reference PCB design with 6 phase VRM (4 for GPU and 2 for memory). They simply put a custom cooler on top. MSI cards have similar incidents reported
- Gainward 570 Phantom, Gainward 570 GS Goes Like Hell, Palit 570 Sonic Platinum all have 8 phase VRMs (6 GPU and 2 memory). Same amount with the GTX 580. All these cards have identical PCB since they belong to the same graphics card manufacturer group
- Asus GTX570 DirectCU II also has 8 phase VRMs (6 GPU and 2 memory)
The 560-448 shares the same PCB as the 570 and therefore is similarly limited. It's just a 570 w/ one of the 15 SM's busted or disabled.
The Twin Frozr 560's also only have 6 phase VRM while the beefed up ones like the Asus TOP and Gigabyte 900 Mhz models have 7 or more.
As for the performance numbers, you decide:
Guru3D uses the following games in their test suite, COD-MW, Bad Company 2, Dirt 2, Far Cry 2, Metro 2033, Dawn of Discovery, Crysis Warhead. Total fps (summing fps in each game @ 1920 x 1200) for the various options in parenthesis (single card / SL or CF) are tabulated below along with their cost in dollars per frame single card - CF or SLI:
Here's the nVidia Lineup
$ 155.00 460-768 MB (314/592) $ 0.49 - $ 0.52
$ 205.00 560 Ti (455/792) $ 0.45 - $ 0.52
$ 205.00 560 Ti - 900 Mhz (495/862) $ 0.41 - $ 0.48
$ 270.00 560-448 (501/835) $ 0.54 - $ 0.65
$ 340.00 570 (524/873) $ 0.65 - $ 0.78
$ 500.00 580 (616/953) $ 0.81 - $ 1.05
$ 750.00 590 (881/982) $ 0.85 - $ 1.53
All of the above are retail products tested "outta the box" with no user or reviewer OC added. Based upon the above, the answer to your question is highlighted in bold....
In single card configuration.....
570 gets 524 fps in the game test suite at a cost of $0.65 per frame
560-448 gets 501 fps in the game test suite at a cost of $0.54 per frame
560 Ti (900Mhz) gets 495 fps in the game test suite at a cost of $0.41 per frame
560 Ti gets 455 fps in the game test suite at a cost of $0.45 per frame
In SLI configuration.....
570 gets 873 fps in the game test suite at a cost of $0.78 per frame
560 Ti (900Mhz) gets 862 fps in the game test suite at a cost of $0.48 per frame
560-448 gets 835 fps in the game test suite at a cost of $0.65 per frame
560 Ti gets 792 fps in the game test suite at a cost of $0.52 per frame
The 900 MHz 560Ti comes from the factory with a 10% overclock, I usually boost that to 22 - 25% ..... 30+% (1070) is possible on the 7 phase designs.
http://www.pureoverclock.com/review.php?id=1201&page=17
Note that for just $70 more than one 570 (524 fps), you could have two 900 Mhz 560 Ti's (862 fps)....65% increase in performance for a 21% increase in price.
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