What just might be the final graphics card in the GeForce 500-series before the 600-series steps in next year has been announced by Nvidia and will appear on store shelves at the end of the month. On November 29 Nvidia is set to launch a new version of the immensely popular Geforce GTX 560 Ti with 448 CUDA cores instead of the usual 384. However, contrary to what its name suggests, it is not a model based on the GF114 chip. Instead, Nvidia uses a scaled-down version of the GF110, the same graphics processor as the top tier GTX 570 and 580.

The new graphics card is very similar to its predecessor, the GeForce GTX 470 with 448 units, 320-bit memory bus and 1280 MB of memory. Its standard clock frequencies are slightly lower than the standard GTX 560 Ti – 730 MHz for the GPU and 3800MHz for the GDDR5 VRAM. The specifications also show that the TDP value ends up at 210 W, which is only 9 watts below the GTX 570.

Nvidia partially avoids the risk of name confusion by renaming the new model to GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448. Meanwhile, partner manufacturers have the opportunity to highlight the differences in their own naming of the graphics cards, which they no doubt will. After all, this is a scaled down GTX 570/580 rather than an improved GTX 560 Ti. It is also likely that there will be plenty of factory overclocked versions of the card as usual. The price is expected to land at approximately the same level as the current 560 Ti or slightly above.

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