As you may have learned from our earlier reviews, Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 560 Ti is quite deservedly considered one of the best graphics cards (or even simply the best one) in the $250 price category. Officially priced at $249, it hasn’t really met with worthy opponents up till now. The comparably priced Radeon HD 6870 was slower whereas the Radeon HD 6950 delivered the same performance in 3D applications as the GTX 560 Ti but cost $299. The recent developments have changed the market situation, though. AMD now offers a cheaper version of Radeon HD 6950 with 1 gigabyte of onboard graphics memory (instead of 2 gigabytes as in the original version) for a recommended $259 and, according to our tests, it beats the GeForce GTX 560 Ti by 8 to 30%, depending on the particular game and resolution.
