Overview

Like all GTX560 Ti video cards, also the PNY GTX560 Ti OC2 is ready for the latest technologies on the market. The features allow to adapt the board in various areas of application.

Microsoft DirectX 11

The video card fully supports the latest graphics library from Microsoft ® which, thanks to the DirectX 11  version and the Shader Model 5.0, supports the ultra-performance of current video graphics card and provides more acceleration through GPU-enabled applications.

With DirectX 11 we can use Tessellation technology for a more graphic quality rich in details. This technology, in fact, uses a "tessellator" which, according to the distance between an object and the camera, divides more the polygons that make up the object. Thus an object at close distance will be much more complex than when seen from far away. This does not only enhance the graphics performance of a video game, but also makes sure that the GPU resources are better managed thus ensuring less performance waste when an object is located away from the camera.

Through Direct2D technology, DirectX11 libraries also offer improved performance when using web browsing software like Internet Explorer 9 and Mozilla Firefox 4.0.

NVIDIA PhysX

With NVIDIA  PhysX  you can reach an element of realism never seen before in games. Using the NVIDIA  GeForce  on your PC, you can enjoy a dynamic experience with PhysX ® effects like flaming explosions , reactive debris, water, and realistic characters with lifelike appearance.

Originally, this technology was used only by dedicated video cards that has been produced by the Ageia acquired by Nvidia in February 2008, and integrated into its GPUs starting from the GeForce 8 series. Through the implementation of the APEX library, PhysX technology has reached very high levels of realism. The first title to take advantage of the APEX library was Mafia 2 produced in August 2010. APEX libraries including the following features: APEX Destruction, APEX Clothing, APEX Vegetation and APEX Turbulence.

NVIDIA SLI

The Scalable Link Interface (SLI) was developed by Nvidia to be able to connect two or more video cards to produce a single output video signal. This technology was used for the first time in 1998 in the Voodoo 2 video cards but was not very successful due to poor performance gains. After the acquisition of 3DFX by Nvidia the technology has been reintroduced in 2004 with the same purpose but with much better performance.

In the latest generation of video cards you can select two different criteria for distributing the workload between the video cards operating in parallel:

• Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR): it renders in sequential mode so that a video card renders odd frames while the other even frames.
• Split Frame Rendering (SFR): the rendering is split between the boards in variable percentage.

Despite Nvidia official website, will indicate Triple SLI technology among the features of the GTX 560 Ti, the GTX 560 Ti only supports SLI. It will not be possible to connect in parallel more than two identical video cards.

NVIDIA 3D Vision

Combining the latest Nvidia video card to a NVIDIA 3D Vision kit, you can enjoy a much more engaging 3D experience on your PC or on your workstation. This technology exploits the a 120Hz monitor and a pair of active glasses that occlude alternately lenses so that the images for the left eye and right eye are presented on alternate frames. Thus each eye perceives a frame rate of 60Hz, equivalent to the current monitor refresh rate.

NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround

The 3D Vision technology of Nvidia may be applied to three monitor simultaneously using two video cards Nvidia GF114, the two cards will work in AFR (Alternate Frame Rendering) dividing the frame management and therefore the computational load.

Obviously, the GTX590 are able to manage this technology through the use of a single card as they are multi-GPU video cards.

NVIDIA CUDA

Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) is a hardware architecture for the development of performance calculations produced ​​by Nvidia. This technology allows to increase the calculation performance in demanding applications, especially in the software used by programmers and developers.

The CUDA programming languages available ​​are extensions of the most popular programming languages, the most common is C-CUDA (C with Nvidia extensions).

NVIDIA PureVideo HD

NVIDIA PureVideo carries the film in everyday life. PureVideo uses advanced techniques that are usually found on high end systems in the consumer market players. TV suitable for the Blu-ray, HD DVD and regular DVDs, PCs and mobile content offering crisp, clear and defined images. Regardless of whether you are using an LCD or a plasma TV, with PureVideo image will always be accurate and realistic. Some formats supported are H.264, WMV and MPEG-2 HD and SD.

Blu-Ray 3D Support

You can view a high quality 3D at home with support for 1080p Blu-ray 3D. Through this type of discs you can view compatible 3D content through the HDMI 1.4a, using active-shutter glasses or polarized passive type, on suitable screens .

Hardware Video Decode Acceleration

The combination of video acceleration and high definition decoding and post-processing provides an unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for movies and video.

Other features of the card are: