NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Unboxing & Technology Overview
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·2014-05-07
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more now NVIDIA never sends me boxes so i put the gtx 760 in an old box that i
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had lying around also from NVIDIA but it was for an older card this is the third
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in the g4 700 series of cards so we've seen the 780 as well as the 770 already
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but the 760 comes in to replace the
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outgoing 660 ti in that all important
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250 dollar price point so there's been quite a few tweaks over the older 660 ti
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it still uses that same gk104 core that
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we've come to know and trust from the previous generation cards but there have
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been a few tweaks number one is clock speeds have been increased the old 660
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ti had a boost clock of 980 megahertz whereas the 760 has a base clock of 980
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goes all the way up to 1033 megahertz and that is running at stock speeds for
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this card next up is it has 32 rops that
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is raster operators versus 24 rops what
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those do is they are more sort of oomph
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later on in the graphics rendering pipeline aiding in things like
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anti-aliasing that are done close to the end of the processing of the image that
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goes on okay last but not least we get a wider memory bus so we've gone from a
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192-bit interface on the old card to a 256-bit interface on the new gtx 760.
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that isn't to say that everything has been increased though the gtx 760 has
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1152 cuda cores versus 1
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344 cuda cores in the old 660 ti so
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check out our performance review where we're really going to dive into the performance of this card versus the one
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it's replacing but some things have been upgraded and some things have been taken
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away and we end up with a very interesting part here one other thing
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about this card is that because it's a 256 bit bus card you can have a 2 gig or
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a 4 gig configuration depending on the manufacturer versus 3 gigs max on the
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660 ti now when i talk about the card
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physically there's not really that much to say because we've got the traditional
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blower style shroud that we see with NVIDIA graphics cards we've got that
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silence optimized fan with the new acoustic profile that's cool that's new
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with 700 series as well as titan that keeps it from ramping up
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when it's close to a threshold that it wants to maintain we've got that same
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dual dvi HDMI and displayport output at the back that gives us NVIDIA 3d vision
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surround with three monitors and one auxiliary monitor pci express 3.0 NVIDIA
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sli support up to three-way with two sli fingers on the top of the card and we've
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got that uh pcb extension part at the
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back here that makes the card nine inches total in length now the reason
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they did that is that there's not enough room to have the heatsink itself over
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the GPU and then a fan next to it unless you actually extend the card a little
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bit so in order to maintain that blower style that's what they've done on the
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back of the card we've got some of the RAM chips whereas the other half are on
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the other half of the card and that is pretty much it it's got a clean
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aesthetic with a GeForce gtx branding present on the top as well as two six
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pin pci express connectors and when i say all important 250 price point what
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am i talking about i used to work at a retailer so i know that that's where
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most people are spending their money somewhere between 149 and 249. so when
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NVIDIA says weapon of choice they're talking about that gamer who doesn't
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have the money for a titan or gtx 680 they just want to run the latest games
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at high settings at 1080p or 1920x1200
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and get a great experience so the example that they're using is metrolast
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light with this card versus previous generation cards such as an older 275
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that would have been in a similar price range now you can crank up metro last
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light whereas with your older card you couldn't and it's all about delivering
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that consistent experience speaking of experience GeForce experience is of
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course supported so shadow play is coming soon meaning it uses the onboard
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h.264 encoder in order to record your gameplay on the fly more on that in an
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upcoming video for sure as well as automatic driver updates as well as
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recommendations for what settings you can run all of your games at speaking of
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games we've got upcoming games that are going to be meant to be played on
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GeForce titles so we've got ham
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assassins creed 4 black frag watch dogs splinter cell blacklist witcher 3 and
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batman arkham origins that are all coming up optimized for g-force right
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out of the gate and when it comes to performance 249 is an aggressive price
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point when you consider that this GPU
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at this kind of a level was not available below around 299 so with the
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660 ti being at a higher price in the last generation of cards so we
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are definitely seeing some trickle down in terms of the price with performance
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being maintained or even improved versus the last gen card and compared to
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something like a 7950 i think we're gonna find that 760 is a very
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competitive card but hey don't take my word for it in the unboxing because i
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haven't tested it yet i'm just unboxing it so check out our 1080p performance
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review of the gtx 760. don't forget to like this video as well as leave a
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