NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti: Gamer’s Weapon of Choice

Part of the heat generated by the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is transferred through the heatpipes to the aluminum fins located on the left and right sides of the fan. One of the heatpipes leads to the left, while the other two are connected to the right fins. Heat is also dissipated immediately though a finned aluminum plate that sits right beneath the fan. The VRM section and memory chips on this graphics card are also covered with a “baseplate”.

According to our temperature measurement, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti peaked at 74 degree Celsius under full load condition with the fan spinning at 47%. When idle, the temperature dropped to a cool 31 degree Celsius while the fan reverted slightly to 40%. You can increase the fan speed to 75% at maximum.

Power is supplied to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti through a pair of 6-pin PCI Express connectors. NVIDIA recommends at least a 500 watt power supply unit for the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. Like other GeForce GTX 500 series GPU, the GTX 560 Ti is also equipped with a “power monitoring hardware”, but NVIDIA is likely to give graphics card manufacturers the freedom to choose whether to implement this feature on their products or not.

As with any other graphics cards these days, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti uses PCI Express 2.0 x16 interface. Since it’s backward compatible, you can also install it on older PCI Express revisions, such as version 1.0.