Sparkle GTX560 2GB OC Edition Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell December 21, 2011 Featured Announcement, Graphics

The Sparkle GTX 560 ships in a green and black box, marking the Nvidia heritage.

The bundle includes a quick install guide, several power converters, a video adapter and a mini HDMI adapter.

Our sample had no SPARKLE markings, or stickers on the cooler, looking very like a reference card. It is built on a blue PCB with 2GB of Hynix H5GQ1H24BFR GDDR5 memory.

The Sparkle GTX560 is SLI capable, and requires 2 x 6 pin power connectors for operation.

On the rear are two purple coloured DVI ports and a mini HDMI connector with 1.4a / integrated audio support.

The cooler is very simple, with a central fan supporting the heatsink underneath. There are two copper heatpipes which run into two separate racks of aluminum fins.

Above, a GPUZ overview of the hardware. The card is built around the GF114 core, which features 32 ROPS, 336 CUDA cores and 2GB of GDDR5 which is connected via a 256 bit memory interface. The core clock is 823mhz, and memory is set at 1002mhz (4008mhz effective).

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6 comments

Optix
December 21, 2011 at 8:29 am

nice card, but why not go for a ti instread? seems a better deal to me.
5Trid
December 21, 2011 at 9:26 am

I already have this card and the review is fair, it is a bit loud due to the single, small fan, but performance is great. THey should have made a dual fan version
Roger
December 21, 2011 at 9:52 am

Sparkle? didnt even know they were still going. they have a weak presense in UK. not the first company I would think of for a purchase.

looks like a decent card, but the cooler is quite poor considering the competition. You were too nice in the review
John
December 21, 2011 at 2:44 pm

I think this card is pointless with new AMD cards launching soon and all that.
Davit Marmarashvili
August 26, 2016 at 1:07 am

good review ! thanks kitguru !