The name ASUS is well known as the maker of world’s best selling motherboards with the biggest market share globally. Asus is also know as one of the top makers of video cards utilizing very high quality components and decent levels of overclocking right from the factory to eek out a bit more performance than the reference designs. In the current GTX 500 series line up from nVidia they range from the 560, 560 Ti, 570, 580, and up to the dual GPU 590 at the extreme top end. While most would love the performance of a GTX 590 not everyone can afford the cost, heat, and system requirements to leverage one of the fastest graphics cards on the market today. For the rest of us we are looking for a great balance between being able to play any current game on the market with a fair amount of eye candy turned on against the amount of investment we want to make in our GPU.

Based on the same GPU used in the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, the GeForce GTX 560 is equipped with 336 CUDA Cores, 56 texture units, and 32 ROPs. And with 7 PolyMorph Engines for tessellation, the GTX 560 is ready for the most advanced DirectX 11 games.

The version of the GeForce GTX560 that ASUS sent us is their top of the line ENGTX560 DCII TOP/2DI/1GD5 model running at a factory overclock of 925Mhz Clock, 1820Mhz Shader, and 1050Mhz Memory. The reference standard for the GTX560 is 810 Mhz Clock, 1620 Mhz shader , and 1002 Mhz memory. The ENGTX560 DCII TOP/2DI/1GD5 provides a 15%. 12%, and 5% overclock respectively beyond the reference NVIDIA design.

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