Technical data / specifications

Even at a first glance one can see that the ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II is everything else but not a card according to the NVIDIA reference design. Therefore you'll see a ASUS' dual slot version of their DirectCU II cooler which should be able to deliver lower temperatures compared to the reference cooler. Furthermore the coolers build quality is very good. Most of it has been made of aluminium whereas there are three copper heatpipes transporting the heat efficiently to the numoerous fins. ASUS also overworked the PCB, capacitors and power circuitry. For example you get high quality SAP caps which run cooler and have a longer lifespan.
Last but not least there is the face that this specific card comes with a factory overclocking of 78 MHz. Instead of 822 MHz the GPU now runs at 900 MHz default. Also the memory has been overclocked by almost 200 MHz.

	ASUS GTX 560 Ti Direct CU Top	GTX 560 TI	GTX 570	GTX 580
Chip	GF104	GF114	GF110	GF110
Process	40 nm	40 nm	40 nm	40 nm
Transistors	1.95 billion	1.95 billion	3.0 billion	3.0billion
GPU clock	900 MHz	822 MHz	732 MHz	772 MHz
Shader clock	1'800 MHz	1'645 MHz	1'464 MHz	1'544 MHz
Memory	1'024 MB GDDR5	1'024 MB GDDR5	1'280 MB GDDR5	1'536 MB GDDR5
Memory clock	4'200 MHz	4'008 MHz	3'800 MHz	4'008 MHz
Memory interface	256 Bit	256 Bit	320 Bit	384 Bit
Memory bandwidth	134'400 MB/s	128'256 MB/s	152'000 MB/s	192'400 MB/s
TMUs	64	64	60	64
TAUs	64	64	60	64
Shader Cores	384 (1D)	384 (1D)	480 (5D)	512 (1D)
ROPs	32 ROP	32 ROP	40 ROP	48 ROP
Shader model	SM 5	SM 5	SM 5	SM 5

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 6 - Futuremark
Page 2 - Specifications	Page 7 - Unigine Heaven / Stone Giant
Page 3 - Preview / Delivery	Page 8 - World in Conflict / Resident Evil 5
Page 4 - Overclocking	Page 9 - Call of Juarez / Far Cry 2
Page 5 - Testing conditions	Page 10 - Conclusion

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