NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 - The Gaming Card for the Masses?
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Test Setup
For those who've been following our reviews, take note that we've replaced our old test rig with a brand new one for 2013. Here are the new specs we'll be running with:
- Intel Core i7-3960X (3.3GHz)
- ASUS P9X79 Pro (Intel X79 chipset) Motherboard
- 4 x 2GB DDR3-1600 G.Skill Ripjaws Memory
- Seagate 7200.10 200GB SATA hard drive (OS)
- Western Digital Caviar Black 7200 RPM 1TB SATA hard drive (Benchmarks + Games)
- Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
For many of the comparisons, we had to use add-on partner cards to act as reference ones. They were downclocked to the clock speeds of their reference counterparts in order to gauge their performance with updated drivers. Here's the list of cards we've used for testing:-
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB GDDR5 (ForceWare 320.39)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2GB GDDR5 (ForceWare 320.18) - Stand-in card: Palit GeForce GTX 670 JetStream
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB GDDR5 (ForceWare 320.18) - Stand-in card: ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II TOP 2GB GDDR5
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2GB GDDR5 (ForceWare 320.18) - Stand-in card: MSI GeForce GTX 660 Twin Frozr III OC
- AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 (AMD Catalyst 13.4) - Stand-in card: XFX R7950 Black Edition
- AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB GDDR5 (AMD Catalyst 13.4) - Stand-in card: ASUS Radeon HD 7870 DirectCU II TOP
Note 1: In our performance testing, we left the default temperature ceiling at 80 degrees Celsius as most users would leave it as default. Only at our overclocking exercise did we increase the power target at 104 per cent and our temperature target was automatically increased to 89 degree Celsius.
Benchmarks
Here's the full list of benchmarks that we'll be using for our initial GTX 760 assessment:-
- Futuremark 3DMark 11
- Futuremark 3DMark 2013
- Unigine 4.0 "Heaven"
- Unigine "Valley" 1.0
- Crysis 2
- Tomb Raider
- Assassin's Creed 3
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
- Hitman: Absolution
- Far Cry 3
- Crysis 3
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