The question is, beyond the aesthetics, what kind of performance can we extract from this mid-range second-gen Kepler, and just how much do you sacrifice in terms of pure performance over the more expensive offerings available from Nvidia and AMD? On the flipside, this does mean that Nvidia's partners will be able to provide some pretty compelling customised efforts, of which the MSI model is just one. The metallic chassis and ultra-quiet cooler reserved for the GTX 770, GTX 780 and Titan remains the preserve of the high end, meaning that the GTX 760 is rather bog-standard by comparison - all plastic and noticeably louder. It's pretty clear from the reference design that the lower models in the Nvidia line-up aren't going to receive the same kind of love as the more expensive cards.
This content is hosted on an external platform, which will only display it if you accept targeting cookies. Given that you're paying just £10 more for the MSI-customised version of the card, that's pretty good value. Acoustically, it's a massive leap over the reference card - it's very quiet indeed, and clearly more adept at handling the high temperatures that GPUs run at. It also ships with a mild overclock, taking us up to 1085MHz core, 1150MHz boost - thus taking performance even closer to the GTX 670 ideal. As you can see from the product gallery below, the difference is night and day - the MSI product features a massive heatsink cooled by two large fans, and we're promised "military grade" component quality too.
In reviewing the GTX 760, we actually find ourselves with two review subjects: we have the standard reference card from Nvidia while MSI offered up its Twin Frozr IV "N760TF 2GD5/OC" model. Can raw clock-speeds and the wider bus overcome the 16 per cent drop in core count? It's an interesting configuration for Nvidia's new mid-tier contender and perhaps something of a gamble. The new second-gen "Kepler" GTX 760 has fewer CUDA cores than last year's GTX 660 Ti and GTX 670, but features faster clock-speeds and retains the faster card's all-important 256-bit memory bus. Bearing in mind the price difference between the two cards, the idea of getting something approaching GTX 670-level performance in the £200/$250 price-bracket is mouthwatering. In essence then, Nvidia has traded cores for more speed and extra bandwidth, opening up the opportunity for more satisfying performance at display formats like 2560x1440.īut it's the comparison with the more powerful GTX 670 that is perhaps more intriguing - the new card may only have 85 per cent of the CUDA cores, but base clocks are around seven per cent faster, and GPU Boost 2.0 technology could well help even the odds. Additionally, the amount of ROPs rises from 24 to 32 - very useful for operating at higher resolutions. Base clock rises to 980MHz compared to the 660 Ti's 915MHz, while the auto-overclocking boost clock reaches 1033MHz (up from 980MHz).
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The key difference is bandwidth: the constricted 192-bit memory bus of the Ti is given the boot in exchange for a full 256-bit interface, upping peak bandwidth from 144.2GB/s to 192.2GB/s. the 1344 found in the Ti (and indeed the GTX 670). Looking at the specs, the new card actually has fewer CUDA core units - 1152 vs.
Nvidia says that the GTX 760 is designed to replace the outgoing GTX 660 Ti, in itself a highly regarded piece of kit. Could we have found a new enthusiasts' favourite? Priced at £210/$250 (though expect the odd partner card at the £200 level), it offers most of the performance of the more expensive GTX 670, and in the process puts the £240/$300 Radeon HD 7950 in a very difficult position. The GTX 760, the latest addition to the product line-up, looks like a much more tempting proposition. In our review of the GeForce GTX 770 we noted that Nvidia's second-generation "Kepler" graphics cards were all about boosting performance while increasing value - a noble sentiment for sure, but with a sticker price in the £300 region, that's still a hell of a lot of money to shell out for just one component of a gaming PC.
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