ASUS ENGTX560 Ti DirectCU II TOP is on our test bench today, and we overclock it until it screams. We’re see if this video card can match the performance of a Radeon HD 6950. Will the voltage tweaking provided by ASUS give it enough boost to make it worth the purchase? We will find out.

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. is one of the largest and most successful computer hardware manufacturers in the world. A Taiwan-based company, it manufactures a wide variety of computer hardware, including motherboards, video cards, optical drives, notebooks, networking equipment, barebones desktop, and server systems, among many others. In 2008, it sold over 24 million motherboards, grossed 8.1 billion U.S., and won 3,056 awards from various enthusiasts and IT related outlets.

On January 25th, 2011, NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 560 Ti video card. The “Ti” stands for “titanium,” a strong and light metal often used in the aerospace industry. The GTX 560 Ti lands in NVIDIA’s “sweet spot,” which it say is the ~$250 USD video card market. The price of this card fluctuated a good amount as well in the couple of weeks that it took to author the review. The GPU features 384 CUDA cores clocked at 1644MHz divided into eight streaming multiprocessors, 64 texture units and 32 ROPs clocked at 822MHz configured as two graphics processing clusters. It has a 256-bit memory bus and comes equipped with 1024MB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4008MHz. It boasts a maximum theoretical memory bandwidth of 128.3GB per second and a bilinear texture filter rate of 52.6 billion texels per second.

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