Review-Palit GeForce GTX 560 Sonic Platinum: NVIDIA’s New “Sweet-Spot” Graphics Card

Test Platform

These are the hardware components used as our testbed platform:

Test Results

Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Vantage

Setting: Performance Preset; PPU Off

3DMark 11

Setting: Performance Preset

Unigine Heaven 2.1

Setting: 1920×1080; DirectX 11; High; AF x16, No-AA

Real Game Benchmarks

First-person Shooter Games

Alien VS Predator

Setting: 1920×1080; DirectX 11; Texture Quality-Very High; Shadow Quality-High; SSAO-On; AF x16; No-MSAA

Crysis Warhead

Setting: 1920×1080; DirectX 10; Enthusiast Mode; No-AA

LEFT4DEAD 2

Setting: 1920×1080; Maximum Quality; AF-Trilinear; No-AA

Metro 2033

Setting: 1920×1080; DirectX 11; Very High; Advance DOF; No-Advance PhysX; AF x16; MSAA x4