In the midst of excitement over the company’s forthcoming Tegra 2 mobile processor, GPU maker Nvidia has gone back to its graphics processing unit (GPU) roots by announcing its latest Fermi-based graphics card, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti.

 

The card boasts a default graphics core clocked to 822 MHz, eight tessellation engines and 384 CUDA cores. This DirectX 11 (DX11) GPU produces, according to Nvidia, “the world’s fastest performance for DX11 games in its class”, as it is up to 65% faster than its closest competition (AMD Radeon HD 6870) when playing the newest DX11 tessellated games, as well as 30% faster whilst playing DX9 and DX10 titles.

 

“The GTX 560 Ti GPU has it all: awesome DX11 performance, terrific overclockability, and ultra quiet operation - attributes of the perfect performance GPU,” said Drew Henry, general manager of GeForce GPU business at Nvidia. “With the GTX 560 Ti under the hood, and an awesome library of DX11 titles coming in the very short future, it is truly a great time to be a PC gamer!”

 

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 560 Ti also sports full support for Nvidia 3D Vision and Nvidia Surround technologies, and when employed in conjunction with 3D glasses and a 3D monitor enables users to play games or watch high-definition (HD) Blu-ray movies in stereoscopic 3D, on a single display or across three screens.

 

In the US it will carry an estimated retail pricetag of  $249 (around R1760), with cards available already in the States from the company’s partners, the likes of ASUS, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, Leadtek, MSI and Sparkle. No local release info is available yet.