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more now NVIDIA never sends me boxes so i put the gtx 760 in an old box that i
had lying around also from NVIDIA but it was for an older card this is the third
in the g4 700 series of cards so we've seen the 780 as well as the 770 already
but the 760 comes in to replace the
outgoing 660 ti in that all important
250 dollar price point so there's been quite a few tweaks over the older 660 ti
it still uses that same gk104 core that
we've come to know and trust from the previous generation cards but there have
been a few tweaks number one is clock speeds have been increased the old 660
ti had a boost clock of 980 megahertz whereas the 760 has a base clock of 980
goes all the way up to 1033 megahertz and that is running at stock speeds for
this card next up is it has 32 rops that
is raster operators versus 24 rops what
those do is they are more sort of oomph
later on in the graphics rendering pipeline aiding in things like
anti-aliasing that are done close to the end of the processing of the image that
goes on okay last but not least we get a wider memory bus so we've gone from a
192-bit interface on the old card to a 256-bit interface on the new gtx 760.
that isn't to say that everything has been increased though the gtx 760 has
1152 cuda cores versus 1
344 cuda cores in the old 660 ti so
check out our performance review where we're really going to dive into the performance of this card versus the one
it's replacing but some things have been upgraded and some things have been taken
away and we end up with a very interesting part here one other thing
about this card is that because it's a 256 bit bus card you can have a 2 gig or
a 4 gig configuration depending on the manufacturer versus 3 gigs max on the
660 ti now when i talk about the card
physically there's not really that much to say because we've got the traditional
blower style shroud that we see with NVIDIA graphics cards we've got that
silence optimized fan with the new acoustic profile that's cool that's new
with 700 series as well as titan that keeps it from ramping up
when it's close to a threshold that it wants to maintain we've got that same
dual dvi HDMI and displayport output at the back that gives us NVIDIA 3d vision
surround with three monitors and one auxiliary monitor pci express 3.0 NVIDIA
sli support up to three-way with two sli fingers on the top of the card and we've
got that uh pcb extension part at the
back here that makes the card nine inches total in length now the reason
they did that is that there's not enough room to have the heatsink itself over
the GPU and then a fan next to it unless you actually extend the card a little
bit so in order to maintain that blower style that's what they've done on the
back of the card we've got some of the RAM chips whereas the other half are on
the other half of the card and that is pretty much it it's got a clean
aesthetic with a GeForce gtx branding present on the top as well as two six
pin pci express connectors and when i say all important 250 price point what
am i talking about i used to work at a retailer so i know that that's where
most people are spending their money somewhere between 149 and 249. so when
NVIDIA says weapon of choice they're talking about that gamer who doesn't
have the money for a titan or gtx 680 they just want to run the latest games
at high settings at 1080p or 1920x1200
and get a great experience so the example that they're using is metrolast
light with this card versus previous generation cards such as an older 275
that would have been in a similar price range now you can crank up metro last
light whereas with your older card you couldn't and it's all about delivering
that consistent experience speaking of experience GeForce experience is of
course supported so shadow play is coming soon meaning it uses the onboard
h.264 encoder in order to record your gameplay on the fly more on that in an
upcoming video for sure as well as automatic driver updates as well as
recommendations for what settings you can run all of your games at speaking of
games we've got upcoming games that are going to be meant to be played on
GeForce titles so we've got ham
assassins creed 4 black frag watch dogs splinter cell blacklist witcher 3 and
batman arkham origins that are all coming up optimized for g-force right
out of the gate and when it comes to performance 249 is an aggressive price
point when you consider that this GPU
at this kind of a level was not available below around 299 so with the
660 ti being at a higher price in the last generation of cards so we
are definitely seeing some trickle down in terms of the price with performance
being maintained or even improved versus the last gen card and compared to
something like a 7950 i think we're gonna find that 760 is a very
competitive card but hey don't take my word for it in the unboxing because i
haven't tested it yet i'm just unboxing it so check out our 1080p performance
review of the gtx 760. don't forget to like this video as well as leave a
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