Can anyone remember the last time either of the two big players introduced a new graphics card? If you think back far enough, you’ll remember it was NVIDIA with their GTX 560 (non-Ti) that was first glimpsed back in May of this year. Since then we have seen our fair share of manufacturer designed cards that somewhat bridge the gap between certain price points but new Radeon and GeForce branded products have been few and far between.

To be perfectly transparent here, neither AMD nor NVIDIA will have their third generation DX11 architectures ready in time for this year’s lucrative Christmas shopping season. But with so many new game titles clustered around the last few months of 2011, this could be a bumper year for GPU purchases. So NVIDIA decided to step up to the plate by taking advantage of some unused cores they have been holding onto since production of the GF110-series architecture commenced. The result is a 448-core card aptly named the GTX 560 Ti 448 which is a bit of a mash up between the high end GTX 570 and the hugely popular yet lower performing GTX 560 Ti.

• READ MORE (Source): NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores Review

• READ MORE (Source): NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Roundup (EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI)