With the release of the newest high performance cards, like GTX 580 and 570, which utilize a redesigned and optimized GF110 chip, NVIDIA was able to take the crown for the production of the fastest and quietest single GPU cards in the world. Both the GTX 580 and 570 were able to excel in performance, and the GTX 480 with its GF100 chip became obsolete. Unlike the GF100 chip, which had 512 CUDA cores but was able to utilize only 480, the GF110 lives up to it full potential and uses all 512 CUDA cores. The GTX 560 Ti is also quipped with 8 PolyMorph Engines dedicated to tesselation and additional raster engines that covert polygonal shapes to pixel fragments to allow faster culling.



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