GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs. GeForce 8800 GT

When a new video card enters the market, the natural

tendency is to compare it to cards released within

the same generation or from the previous generation.

Nvidia product manager Justin Walker says the company

also wants to compare the GeForce GTX 560 Ti

to a video card from two generations ago, the GeForce

8800 GT, which carried a similar, sub-$250 price at its

introduction in October 2007.

Walker says Nvidia’s market research shows that

many gamers, especially those looking at video cards

in the $250 price range, don’t necessarily want to upgrade

each time a new generation appears. Instead,

they’ll hang on to a card for a little longer. Walker says
Nvidia expects many of those upgrading to the GTX 560
Ti will be gamers who now own the 8800 GT.
“A gamer may not upgrade during every cycle,” Walker
says. “We have gamers coming [to the GTX 560 Ti] now
from a couple of generations ago.”
Those upgrading from the 8800 GT to the GTX 560
Ti will find DirectX 11 support in the new card, and the
number of CUDA cores also has increased from 112
to 384. In the screen shots from Crysis (right), you can
see the improved image quality the GTX 560 Ti offers
over the 8800 GT.
According to Walker, Nvidia estimates that the GTX 560
Ti will provide 3.4 times more performance than the 8800
GT. He says that the
GTX 560 Ti card’s
DX11 support gives it
a serious performance
advantage over any DX9 or DX10 video cards.“It is a pretty significant
difference,”
Walker says. “It’s
always interesting as
to what that upgrade
will mean to someone
like that.” 

Article From Computer Power User Magazine