When introduced last year in July, the GTX 460 was NVIDIA's card that hit the right performance points for the right price and really shook up the mid-range segment by running the latest DX 11 games at frame rates that approached (if not surpassed) the performance of AMD's flagship single-GPU cards, the HD 5870 and HD 5850. This for a much more appealing price point, offering the gamer on a budget the ability to step up to the plate and get big league performance for minor league pricing. The GTX 460 fell into what NVIDIA calls the "Hunter" class of video cards that don't have all the firepower, but use their speed to help close the performance gap. When the GTX 460 dropped, the board partners quickly had a multitude of hopped up cards with better cooling and non-reference PCB designs that took the performance to another level. You had ECS with a massive cooler from Arctic Cooling, Palit with its Sonic version, MSI with the Hawk that featured an overbuilt beast of a board with additional voltage regulation capabilities for the enthusiast, to EVGA with its FTW edition card with an 850MHz core clock right out of the box. These cards helped boost the stature of the GTX 460 as a worthy successor to the 8800GT in terms of price-to-performance. But I digress — let's fast forward a scant six months later and we have what should be the replacement for the GTX 460, the GTX 560 Ti. The Ti stands for Titanium, which is lighter and stronger than steel, referencing that you get more for less. The size of the card comes in at a mere nine inches, which looks to deliver brutal performance for its price point.The GTX 560 Ti features a revamped GF114 core that has been redesigned down to the transistor level to make the core more efficient so that the amount of hardware on board could be increased without creating a hot-running beast. This allowed NVIDIA to bump the CUDA core count up to 384 while also increasing the clock speeds. The GTX 460 that the GTX 560 Ti is replacing was an overclocking beast, so NVIDIA made sure this line has the same capabilities, providing better power regulation and better cooling on the reference design. Let's take a look at what NVIDIA and its partners have to offer with the introduction of the GTX 560 Ti, the latest rendition of its "Hunter" class card.