Five Overclocked GeForce GTX 560 Cards, Rounded-Up

By Don Woligroski
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We were foiled in our quest to find the best vendor-provided GPU cooler for Nvidia's GeForce GTX 560. But out of the ashes sprung a round-up of cards armed with those very same solutions. Which of these five GF114-based boards is right for you?

Benchmark Results: AvP And Metro 2033

Now let’s add Aliens vs. Predator and Metro 2033 to the mix, both games with a deserved reputation for taxing graphics subsystems more than any other component.

All five contenders are playable at 1080p, so long as you don't use anti-aliasing. Similar to what we saw in Battlefield 3, roughly five frames per second separate the field.

Metro 2033 applies one of the most demanding loads we've ever seen, so it'd be expected that this title would effectively demonstrate differences in clock rate. Here we see a 7 FPS spread at 1080p.

We were forced to use the High quality preset in DirectX 9 because DirectX 10 and 11 are too slow to be playable at our desired resolution.

Don Woligroski
40 Comments Comment from the forums
  • pensivevulcan
    Kepler is around the corner, so are lower end AMD 7000 series parts, this was interesting but wouldn't one want to wait for a plethora of reasons.
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  • payneg1
    The Galaxy model comes closest with its 830/1002 MHz clocks, but Zotac's AMP! edition goes all the way to 950/1100 MHz.

    This dosent match with the above chart
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  • salad10203
    Are those temps for real? My 280 gtx has never idled under 40C.
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  • crisan_tiberiu
    so, basicaly if someone plays on a single monitor, there is no point going beyond a gtx 560 or a 6950 in today's games. (it slike in the "best gaming CPU chart", no point going beyond i5 2500k for gaming.
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  • giovanni86
    salad10203Are those temps for real? My 280 gtx has never idled under 40C.Your kidding right, my overclocked 580GTX at 60% fan speed idles at 32c. Cards down clock themselves which allows them to run cooler at idle temps even if it were clocked at upwards i don't think a card would get hot unless it was being used.
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  • crisan_tiberiu
    sorry, i ment single monitor @ 1080p :P.
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  • Im surprised they got 5 OCed GPUs to run BF3 without crashing
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  • justme1977
    crisan_tiberiu
    I have the feeling that even a i5 2500k@4ghz bottlenecks a 7970 @1080p in most newer games.
    If the GPU market goes the way it does, it won't take long that even midrange cards will be bottlenecked @1080p by the cpu.


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  • wizloa
    heh, my 4870 runs at 80c regardless of idle or load
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  • FunSurfer
    I think there is an error on the Asus idle voltage: instead "0.192 V Idle" it should be 0.912
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