Review-Palit GeForce GTX 560 Sonic Platinum: NVIDIA’s New “Sweet-Spot” Graphics Card

Palit GTX 560 Ti Sonic Platinum

• Full-load: 78 °C (fan speed: Auto @55%)
• Idle: 31 °C (fan speed: Auto @30%)

Palit uses GDDR5 memory chips from Samsung for this product.

This is the VRM section of the graphics card.

Palit GTX 560 Sonic Edition draws additional power from a pair of 6-pin PCI Express power connectors. The side-orientation of the connectors makes it easy to plug the cables, especially when confined by limited space inside the casing.

Like all modern graphics card, Palit GTX 560 Sonic Platinum uses the PCI-Express 2.1×16 interface. This interface provides 64 Gbps worth of bandwidth and is also backward compatible with earlier PCI-Express revisions.

An SLI connector on top of the graphics card can be used to connect up to two of these graphics cards together for some multi-GPU processing.

The display output selection consists of:

• 1x Dual-link DVI-I connector
• 1x D-Sub connector
• 1x Full-size HDMI connector

The well-varied display connectors eliminate the need to include additional adapter in the sales package.

Finally, this is how the graphics card looks like, seen from the front and the back sides.