Sparkle GTX560 2GB OC Edition Review

Rating: 8.0.

Today we are looking at a new GTX 560 from Sparkle, which features 2 GB of GDDR5 and is supplied in an overclocked state. At £170 inc vat is this the ideal graphics card upgrade for a new Christmas system build?

The GTX560 has proven to be a popular card for Nvidia building upon the incredible success of the GTX460. The reference card has 7 SMs, 32 ROPS, 512kb of L2 cache, 336 SPs and 1GB of GDDR5 memory connected via a 256 bit memory bus. This Sparkle GTX560 card is equipped with double the memory (2GB GDDR5) with a higher core clock speed (822mhz). This is sure to enhance performance at higher resolutions when image quality is cranked.

Features

• Over clock edition
• Microsoft DirectX 11 support
• GDDR5 product
• 40nm Processor Technology
• Native MiniHDMI & HDMI 1.4a support
• integrated Audio for HDMI
• All solid capacitors insure reliable and stable operation
• Large capacity 2048MB

Specification

• GPU – GeForce GTX 560
• Core Name – GF114
• Processor Technology – 40nm
• CUDA Cores – 336 cores
• Processor Clock – 1644MHz
• Graphics Clock – 822MHz
• Memory Clock – 4008MHz
• Memory Amount – GDDR5
• Memory Interface – 256bit
• Bus Type – PCI-e 2.0
• HDCP – Yes
• SLI Ready – Yes

Can this Sparkle solution compete in the mid range sector against AMD's HD6870?

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