Review: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs. GTX 460 1GB - at the same clocks

DiRT 2

DiRT 2, a lovely-looking racer and one of the first games to use a DX11 path, offers improved visuals whilst burning through the London map.

We guess the results need no explanation here.

Power-draw

NVIDIA makes claims that the GTX 560 Ti is a more power-efficient GPU than the GTX 460. We can infer this by the relative TDPs of the two cards - 170W vs. 160W - and the comparative performance at stock clocks, which we've shown to be around 33 per cent.

We put in a regular GTX 460 1GB card and increased frequencies to match the GTX 560 Ti, though no extra voltage was put through either GPU. Here's how the numbers game played out:

Remember that these figures are for both GPUs at the same frequency. However, the Ti 560 uses an extra SM block for greater speed, which provides an additional 10 per cent improvement that we have seen in the previous graphs.