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welcome to my 1080p performance review of the GeForce GTX 760 from NVIDIA this
card uses the GK 104 core which is the same as the last generation GTX 670 and
660 Ti the latter of which it replaces
however there have definit been some tweaks this card is targeted squarely at
1080p Gamers so it's in that $250 sweet spot price point and it
delivers compelling performance in modern games at high details at 1080p
although you might want to step up to something a little bit juicier like a
GTX 780 if you want a game at resolutions above that so what tweaks
have been made so a few things number one is clock speeds have been increased
number two is that memory bandwidth has been increased we've gone from 192-bit
bus on the 660 Ti to a 256-bit bus here
RS have also been increased from 24 to
32 however there has been a decrease it
actually has fewer Cuda cores than the GTX 660 Ti that it replaces so it
remains to be seen how that all translate to real world performance
speaking of real world performance we test all of our games in as real world
scenarios as we can meaning timed benchmarks using fraps
yes we know FCAT is more effective however we are only testing single GPU
setups here so it makes less of a difference in this case and
unfortunately we don't have a frame capture setup yet so hopefully that's
coming at some point for our test bench we've got a P9 x79 Deluxe with 16 gigs
of Kingston RAM a core i7 3960x at 4 GHz
an Anta High current Pro 1000 watt that's a platinum power supply 128 gig
SSD and we are using After Burner Andor precision for our overclocking needs
with the NVIDIA 32039 driver and AMD
13.6 beta driver we have switched over to using beta drivers just so we can
make sure we're getting the most out of all of these cards at the time that
we're doing these videos just a reminder guys we do run all of our graphics cards
overclocked at Linus Tech tips because we believe overclocking is relatively
simple we've done guides on it in the past watch our guides do it because it
is free performance however that means that sometimes the
way cards stack up in our performance graphs is going to look a little
different from how other people's do so if you check out the video description
we've got a link to the overclocks we're running our cards at most of those
should be pretty attainable for most of you on your own graphics cards so
without further Ado let's get into the games starting with matro last Light we
see a reasonably strong performance for the 760 it comes in a little behind the
7950 but that stands to reason it is a little bit cheaper and it beats out the
GTX x660 TI however given that this is a
generational increase in naming sort of
because it's a 760 replacing a 660 Ti
which is typically a slightly uh boosted up skew uh maybe it's not as much as we
might have expected in terms of performance increase and we're going to
go through the slides pretty quickly because we're going to see uh some
pretty uh repeating patterns here so
Tomb Raider is pretty much the same thing so the 760 is a little bit faster
than a 660 Ti almost within margin of error for this one next up is BioShock
Infinite where the 760 is just a smidgen
faster than a GTX 660ti almost within the margin of error moving right along
we've got Far Cry 3 where the 760
performs pretty much the same as the GTX 660 Ti Far Cry 3 blood Dragon shows us
that the GTX 760 really does perform about the same as the GTX 660 GTI in
this particular game especially once we overclock both cards and finally Crisis
3 we see a 10% difference in performance
between the 760 and the GTX 660 Ti so
that was a bit of a a patterned sort of performance rundown wasn't it which
leads us more than anything else to price to Performance analysis you get a
bit of a savings versus the older 660 Ti you get as good or better performance
across the board compared to the gtx6 60 TI and you get a very mature card
running on the GK 104 core as well as a few more options because of that 256bit
bus some manufacturers May opt to offer
2 gig and 4 gig configurations whereas with 660ti we were tied to 2 gig and 3
gig however it would be quite um quite
debatable whether or not you would benefit from more than 2 gigs with this
card at this time because it's very optimized for 1080P and not really
resolutions above that although for those higher res texture Gamers out
there yeah you might want all the vram that you can possibly get so in short
the 760 replaces the 660ti at a lower
price point with more performance does it look quite like the generational
boost in performance that we were looking for maybe not quite especially
when you compare it to something like 780 versus 680 but is it a worthy card
at that price I think the answer is yes thank you for checking out this 1080p
performance review of the GTX 760 from NVIDIA don't forget to subscribe to
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