GeForce GTX 460 was NVIDIA’s life saver, and all reports are indicating that it has been selling well. Even AMD admitted that to its analists. This is the main reason why NVIDIA won’t release a new GTX 560 until early next year. This is the card that is supposed to replace the GTX 460. The new card is based on GF114 chip, which is an improved GF104 with better clocks and all eight clusters enabled.

Also, the complete GF104 core contains 64 texture address units and 512 texture filtering units.The number of SFUs jumps from 56 to 64. You can also expect a significant increase in clock speed as well as memory and the “new” card will run at higher than 675MHz core and 1350MHz shaders.

The launch of the card is a sales decision and it will come only if Radeon HD 6870 and 6850 see dramatic price cuts and put additional pressure on NVIDIA. If all goes as planned you will see this card early next year.

• READ MORE (Source): InsideHW – GeForce GTX 560 to replace 460 next year