welcome to my unboxing and review of the ASUS GeForce GTX 760 Mars now it might
seem like a regular GTX 760 except that that one comes in a package that looks a
little something like this so no this is something special with the Mars branding
on there we know we're getting something Rog and something a little bit different
so Inside the Box packed in nice soft
closed cell foam we get the GTX 760 Mars
which has a gorgeous direct cu2 style
cooler on it with Rog color scheming and
branding all over it and under that we get not one but two GeForce GTX 760
cores each of them equipped with 2 gigs of memory clocked at 6 GHz each of them
clocked at a base of 1,6 MHz and a boost
of 1072 although guys we do of course overclock the card for our performance
evaluation later and having a total allog together of
2,34 Cuda cor it also has a much better
power implementation with a 12 phase super alloy power Digi plus vrm system
as well as just an overall Better Built
high quality non-reference board so for example they're using their Black
Metallic caps which are rated at 10,000 hours of Lifetime at
105° C it also has a full back plate
unlike the reference GTX 690 which does a couple of things so you might be able
to argue that it helps with heat dissipation a little bit but um but what
it also does is it actually protects the components on the back and gives more
rigidity to the card so that it's less likely to flex speaking of rigidity to
the card it has almost none because on the back of the card it has a back plate
and on the front of the card it has almost a full unic sync that actually
does contri contribute to cooling because it is being actively cooled by
the two fans that are blowing air towards it on the top of the card we
find a single SLI finger this means that the card is compatible with quad SLI if
you're running an additional ASUS GTX 760 Mars and we find the illuminated
logo so there's a beautiful Mars logo that lights up when the card is
installed in your case and powered speaking of power we've got two PCI
Express 8 Pin connectors if your power supply doesn't have two eight pins don't
worry they do include a dual six pin to 8 Pin adapter although if your card
doesn't have dual 8 pins you might not necessarily want to be running a card
like this because power consumption is high it actually consumes more power
than a GTX 780 Ti and as you guys will
see in our performance testing the performance is pretty similar these two
fans here are their dust proof design fans so this offers extended longevity
and so they'll basically just last longer without sounding terrible and the
full top shroud is finished in a gorgeous soft touch field with aluminum
anodized red accents that just I mean
guys let's face it this card won't
perform that differently from two GTX 760 direct cu2s but what it does do is
it adds The Bling Bling so let's get into performance numbers what do we
compare something like this against well ausa's own numbers reference Titan a lot
but I don't think that makes a lot of sense because Titan is significantly more expensive and has been usurped by
the GTX 780 Ti which is cheaper and
better performing than Titan when it comes to gaming applications so we ran
our own tests and we included the r9290 as sort of our value high performance
option as well as NVIDIA's own GTX 780
and 780 Ti to give us a pretty clear picture of how it Stacks up now because
it's priced pretty similar to a 780 Ti it shouldn't surprise you guys that in
our test Suite which hopefully we're going to have up on the screen right now
it performs very similarly to a GeForce GTX 780 Ti with that said there are some
caveats so number one is the fact that power consumption is going to be higher
than an individual card number two is the fact that you're going to have some
behaviors that are not as desirable as you might get from an individual
higher-end card SLI doesn't scale perfectly so there will be situations
where this card will perform extremely well and there will be other ones where
it just doesn't perform that well or where to get stability you will even
have to disable a GPU and you are effectively reducing the performance
that you can get out of it I do generally recommend that you run a
single more powerful card rather than running SLI until you're at the point
where you're already buying the most powerful single GPU available at which
point if you really need more performance you can add another one the other issue with SLI is that even though
this card has four gigs of memory on it only two gigs can be used effectively
because you have to duplicate the data that stored in the frame buffer that is
allocated to each GPU whereas GeForce GTX 780ti has 3 gigs of memory all of
which is usable and all of that even ignores the fact that like we said
before you could buy two GTX 70s which
would be less expensive to get about the same performance and present a much more
compelling value option than something like a 760 Mars so who is the Mars made
for and the answer is the same person
that every other Mars and every other Aries series Rog card from ASUS is made
for someone who values the form of the
card someone who values The Prestige of owning one of their top tier Ro class
cards I mean the engineering that goes into building these cards is very very
admirable and they look the part so I
think that pretty much wraps things up thank you for checking out our unboxing
and review of the GeForce GTX 760 Mars from ASUS don't forget to like this
video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment if you want
to let us know what you thought I mean what would you buy out these three
options 780 Ti Mar 760 or just two sort
of less expensive 70s and compromise
those additional two PCI Express slots CU this at least fits when in the form
factor of one card and as always don't
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