Palit GeForce GTX 560 Sonic Platinum

Today we're going to try a new card produced by Palit, it is the GeForce GTX 560 standard version, without the Ti suffix, with the GF114 graphics chip but with 334 Shaders.It's characterized by a highly effective cooling system and very high operating frequencies that make the GeForce GTX 560 Sonic Platinum a video card with very interesting features and especially suited for overclocking.

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Benchmark compatible with DirectX 11 API, the Swedish developer of BitSquid graphics engines and of Fatshark games, which puts particular stress to the video card with tessellation techniques. It's a tech demo with DirectX 11 integrated benchmark, created to reveal the BitSquid tools and technology. Users who have a DX10 GPU can run tech demo with tessellation disabled. These are the notes supplied with the product by the developer:

  • Highly parallel, data oriented design
  • Support for all new DX11 GPUs, including the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 400 Series and AMD Radeon 5000 series
  • Compute Shader 5 based depth of field effects
  • Dynamic level of detail through displacement map tessellation
  • Stereoscopic 3D support for NVIDIA 3dVision

The GTX 560 Sonic Platinum is positioned above the AMD Radeon HD 6970 and the GeForce GTX 560 Ti reference.