I think this format where you start at the cards release game wise and move into the modern day is solid, exactly what i've wanted to see, i should take a closer look at my 560Ti, its the 2GB Phantom model that allowed me to push high, where you were stuck at normal, in modern games where 2GB is the absolute minimum, that extra bit saves it, honestly feel like fermi 2.0 was the last generation of freedom for a lot of AIBs before Nvidia cracked down to keep their margins, miss these cards and the variants that made you go to a brand, not just for some shiny RGB tosh, that money got put towards performance, you spend your time looking at a monitor anyway, why not pay for a few extra frames? :)
It is really astonishing, of what this GPU is still capable of, i wonder how the 1 gb GTX 650Ti would perform in comparson to that. Still have one laying around here, just waiting for my new test-system to arrive, so i would test it out.
@@RandomGaminginHD The 560Ti/570 was such a solid pairing with the G3258 overclocked, though a quad core from that generation wouldn't be too bad either, when i ran it with my 4570 over an athlon 645, it ran games quite well, so much so my 1060 3gb collected dust at the time, i do enjoy making lower end components stretch to their limits and push out every frame they can.
@@Konkretertyp I saved one from the scrap, i think really aside from a few frames is its power consumption, tho by keplar cards got cut down in terms of quality of cooling, materials etc, so finding a 2GB Phantom or the 448 if VRAM isnt an issue is probably best, keplar got cheap :( and honestly think it had more in it, at least for 600 series, even 700 series could've had some more punch. Another card to look out for though is the forgotten 2GB 950, if youre looking for a bit more punch than the 560ti, the 950 is a solid card, the KFA2 model is build quite well, overkill really, so in a low end rig to tinker with, it would do nicely with an older quad core or a modern dual core on a budget like a 7350k if you can find one to overclock or a g7400, otherwise any haswell and earlier quad core, or a g3258 at 4.5ghz does well. MY fm2 880k at 4.7 was quite good for a while in older games 2015 and earlier.
But they don't have the same amount of cuda cores? The '560 ti 448' has 448 cuda cores (hence the name), And is higher than the standard 560 ti, Which is also higher than the GTX 470! The 470 is based on Fermi and both 560s on Fermi 2.0. I can't say if 470 and 560 ti 448 would work together in SLI, But I wouldn't think so? They are 2 separate GPU skews even if based the same architecture.
@@SanHydronoid we could have it but people are dumb. free market is a free marked, if you let people abuse something (in this case NVdia locking down things) they will keep doing it. If people where smart everyone should stop buying products from a company when they do an anti-consumer move, but in reality normies don't care.
i remember playing BF3 on launch with a "core unlocked" phenom dual core, 6gb of ram, and an HD4850 (ran pretty well honestly with everything low at 900p) then i upgraded to my first ever "high end" rig hahaha, it was a FX 6100 and the GTX 560Ti 1gb Windforce, and woah, i got blown away,
I remember when this launched, was a solid card at the time. Was rocking a GTX480 (and prior to that a 550ti) at the time then moved onto a 7970Ghz Edition shortly after (then a 290x.. RX580 8gb, Vega 56, Vega 64, Radeon VII and now a 6900XT. Time flies.
I FINALLY got a new PC in May 2012 with an i3 2125, 4gigs single-stick DDR3 (got a 2nd one a few months later) and for the graphics card I REEEALLY wanted a 560Ti, it was undoubtedly the best price-performance but sadly it was out of my budget. I then looked at the 550Ti but it was underwhelming so I ended up getting a Sapphire HD6850 1GB about a month later. That build lasted me till 2016. I remember a friend of mine with a 2008 core duo PC used to say "my PC isn't a supercomputer like yours" 🤣🤣 He really didn't realize it was a low-spec rig.
The strange thing about the 400/500 series of cards was how many SKUs there were with double the VRAM; I have several 2GB GTX 460s and there were similar 560s, etc.This was done all the way up to the 3GB GTX 580. After that though the practice faded, perhaps because, back then, two VRAM-doubled cards in SLI was a cheaper and potent way of obtaining top tier performance without paying megabucks for the top end card. I went through various SLI configs, including 2x 560 Ti, culminating in 2x GTX 580 3GB before finally switching to a single GTX 980. Mind you, even the normal VRAM SKUs still worked very well in SLI for most games, I used 2x GTX 460 1GB for quite a while initially. Customised Crysis was one of the few games which strained the VRAM due to my obsession with long distance LOD & shadows.
The reason double-VRAM models went away is because Nvidia and AMD at some point forbade them, or rather started selling the GPUs only in a bundle with a fixed amount of VRAM.
G'day Random, Loved the way you did this video as a Timeline History Lesson with the games in age order, knowing when games were released then driver Support & API Compatability ending in relation to the GPUs age was very informative for understanding compatability.
I had the MSI GTX 560-Ti Twin Frozr II/OC version of the card. I kept it for about 7 years before upgrading. Such a solid card. Maybe one day someone will come up with community drivers for older hardware like some have made for AMD cards.
It's a lot harder to make community drivers for nvidia cards because nvidia is completely propriety but amd has open source drivers. That's the 1 reason why nvidia cards are so buggy on Linux compared to amd cards or even intel cards
I had the Asus DirectCU II GTX 560Ti 448 Core Edition back in the day. It was absolutely huge, heavy and a triple slot design. The cooler shroud was made entirely of metal and when OC'd, overtook the performance of a standard GTX 570. My current card is a dual slot design, so that was the biggest card I ever owned!
I bought the EVGA Classified oc version and remember it being my first GPU in my new Sandy 2600k build. (late 2010 560ti 448 buy) That GPU was a beast just before the GTX 680 purchase a year or so later. Fun times back then. Battlefield 3 ran nicely. Thanks for memories Random!
I had a Gigabyte one as a temporary card in 2017 and I was surprised how well it ran games, I had it paired with an i5-7600K @ 4.6GHz. If you run them at same clocks, this is 100% the same as GTX 470 (which I've also had back in the day, also from Gigabyte). Also the memory amount is 1.25GB (1GB + 0.25GB) ;)
ikts amazing to see how these older gen gpus do in many game titles as shown here 8) The old gpus show how far we've come and not in gpu tech and gaminmg demands etc. I remember seeing this gpu when it launched ...... but i decided on getting myself the dual-gpu GTX590 which i absolutely loved gaming on in its hay days :)
I had two 560Tis in SLI for a few years before one died, meaning I was hobbled for a long time. I went from that to a GTX 970 which was such a massive upgrade I couldn't believe it.
i had a standard 560Ti back in the day, i also bought mine for battlefield 3 and other games that came out in that very busy October November release period. My card had an error and struggled to load textures, but i put up with it for 3 to 4 years.
Purchased one when it came out to replace my aging GTX 260. Was a rather cheap replacement and a good one. Still replaced it as well couple month later with a hd 7970 which was way better, specially cause of the 3gb VRAM.
I remember like it was yesterday- I got an EVGA 560ti which was an upgrade from my ancient Radeon that I can't even remember. When I launched BF3 and got 60FPS on high settings, I got my entire family to come and watch how smooth it was 😂
I wound up with a 560 Ti in a jam (PNY XLR8, blower cooler), when the cooling fan died on my Radeon HD4890. Was a great card, but would have preferred the 448 one, I think it came out later, certainly wasn't available locally which is what I needed. It did great in BF3 and mostly beat the Radeon 6000 cards in benchmarks.
I owned a PoV gtx 570 tgt beast edition which came with a total of 2.5GB of vram, would be awesome to see how that one holds up nowadays. Prior to that, I had a palit gtx 260 "216" sli config stable running, that was quite an experience as to which sli mode for which graphics engine.
Hey! been a fan for couple of years... for some reason.. 😂 anyways keep up the good work! And i'd wanna suggest an idea, if you'd have me. GTX 900 series cards in 2023, could they still be a good budget gpu options, or which modernish cards could give them run for their money.
The smart choice back then would have been the 2.6 Gb version of the 570 (and towards the end of 2011 you could get them at really good prices occasionally, like barely above 300 for Black Friday sales), but they are much rarer today though, even more so than the 3.0 Gb versions of the 580 (which being the highest end single card, sold more of the larger memory versions).
There is a way you could have gotten those dx12 games to run - through steam's proton translation layer on linux, Though I suppose you'd be lucky if you could get 5 fps!
I used to have a GTX 560 Ti from MSI and two days ago I saw the sticker on the back says GTX 560Ti 448 and I wanted to search what does it mean, now I saw this video and everything is more clear, I changed it for a GTX 680 same from MSI just for view mail and stuff, I love those cards
We had the same problem with watch dogs back in 2014 i had a core 2 quad q6600 with a gtx 750ti 2gb i bought an xbox one with a lumia 520 and a free copy of watch dogs excelent game and good vídeo.
bought the EVGA classified version of this card in 2012 for $150 (after kepler launched), it was massively OC'd out of the box and was faster than a 570. Great card and served me well until the 970 came out.
What is it about older technology that is just so much more fascinating than new technology? Maybe it's because we are getting older and looking at old tech reminds us of our younger days!
what a cool card. Would make an awesome card for an HTPC with the secondary goal being emulation gaming. Some modern titles on pc would also run for those times you just want to lay on the couch with a controller. How cool
You really should test FiveM, both cpu/GPU tests, as a PC builder the number one question I am asked is, will this run FiveM/GTARP. Of course all PCs I sell will run it fine, but would love to see some older tech running FiveM benchmarks
@@RandomGaminginHD I don't think I've ever done more than one mission a session, ended up taking me two years to finish the game that way, but I'd say the final missions were well worth it
Got HD 6950 of 2 GB GDDR 5 instead of this, it was around the same price and an antire 100 EUR cheaper than GTX 570 cheapest-versions; some peoples' also unlocked into an HD 6970 bios by the switch, mine didn't, but at least it kept good thermal and noise levels and didn't cook itself.
@@RandomGaminginHD agreed! altho i fell into the dumb marketing, i was probably one of the only few people who did a gtx 560 sli setup ! but running witcher 2 at 60 locked was so fun
Used to run two of those in SLI - It played pretty great back then. But, the lack of VRAM did eventually make me upgrade during.. think it was Far Cry 4. The stuttering when turning the camera around was just dreadful at that point. ... which was the same reason as to why I upgraded my GTX 780 later on, lack of VRAM - It played what I played just fine, but the 3GB on that card just wasn't enough either. .... Thinking of it.. Nvidia has a long history of lacking RAM - forcing upgrades, don't they? I remember that my 1080Ti could play Far Cry 6 with HD textures, while an RTX 3080 could not.. 11GB vs 10GB - required 11.
It was a 560 Ti or an HD 6970. I went 6970 as I got it for $234 open box. It was a lemon so a couple months later they RMAd me back an HD 7850 2GB so I can't say I didn't make the right choice. However after this video I wonder how well the 7850 has fared over the years. The 560 Ti 448 seems to be useful still after all these years.
I was running my XFX 6950 that was BIOS modded to unlock 6970 performance (when XFX was lazy and didn't hardware lock the card for the midrange tier) all the way up to the start of 2019 when I finally built my first Ryzen system after spending many years on an FX 6300. It was running most of my stuff quite well at 1080p but then AMD stopped driver support on the card it didn't make the cut off (the 7000 series did) and I was having trouble running the newer games.
7850 has DX12 support, it is a GCN card. It is quite a lot faster, almost twice as much memory, and has current gen software support. It's like comparing a car to a horse.
I never had a 560, ti or otherwise. I went from a 460 to a 660ti. I still have those cards, the 460 was a Gainward that looked like a single fan version of this 560ti.
I knew of this card but never owned one I just had the standard 560ti which helped me run games like DIablo 3 at the time. The 448 cores version of the 560 Ti performed close to a stock 570 according to the reviews of the time. Nvidia tried to pull something similar with the 4080 with 12gb of RAM and lower core count but they delaunched that card and turned it into a 4070 Ti due to the huge backlash. But if Nvidia only would have launched that so called 4080 12gb as a 4070 or 4070 ti card then no one would have cared.
So basically, this was a good card until Nvidia dropped driver support for it, because in RDR2, the card wasn't being fully utilized (as per the percentage on screen), which normally suggests driver issues. For an older system though, this card is/was a nice choice.
It's everything my MSI 550ti O/C edition wishes it was... Just got a PC back from my son with it in it. Coupled with an i7 920 and 12gb of DDR 3 memory and a maxed out 60 gb ssd for booting. Clean up and upgrade time it is ! Bigger ssd and a Xeon CPU... and maybe a GTX 730 2gb card "upgrade"...
I remember I had a 'friend' on steam and discord with one of these cards. He would always whinge about how obsolete it was and how unfair it was that he could not afford a replacement in 2016. A common topic for months, eventually was tired of it and told him; if you cannot afford £150 for a better used card; playing videogames shouldn't be top on your life priorities right now. GET A JOB! He blocked me. 🤣 He was able bodied in his mid 20s living with his mum, can't say i miss that perpetual moaner.
I have a project for you , i was proud owner off a alienware X51R1 computer, bur when i game the fan lifted. With the technology now days is it possible to make a soundless alienware x51 when gameing ??
