GeForce GTX 760 1080p Performance Review
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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welcome to my 1080p performance review of the GeForce GTX 760 from NVIDIA this
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card uses the GK 104 core which is the same as the last generation GTX 670 and
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660 Ti the latter of which it replaces
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however there have definit been some tweaks this card is targeted squarely at
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1080p Gamers so it's in that $250 sweet spot price point and it
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delivers compelling performance in modern games at high details at 1080p
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although you might want to step up to something a little bit juicier like a
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GTX 780 if you want a game at resolutions above that so what tweaks
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have been made so a few things number one is clock speeds have been increased
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number two is that memory bandwidth has been increased we've gone from 192-bit
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bus on the 660 Ti to a 256-bit bus here
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RS have also been increased from 24 to
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32 however there has been a decrease it
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actually has fewer Cuda cores than the GTX 660 Ti that it replaces so it
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remains to be seen how that all translate to real world performance
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speaking of real world performance we test all of our games in as real world
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scenarios as we can meaning timed benchmarks using fraps
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yes we know FCAT is more effective however we are only testing single GPU
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setups here so it makes less of a difference in this case and
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unfortunately we don't have a frame capture setup yet so hopefully that's
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coming at some point for our test bench we've got a P9 x79 Deluxe with 16 gigs
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of Kingston RAM a core i7 3960x at 4 GHz
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an Anta High current Pro 1000 watt that's a platinum power supply 128 gig
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SSD and we are using After Burner Andor precision for our overclocking needs
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with the NVIDIA 32039 driver and AMD
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13.6 beta driver we have switched over to using beta drivers just so we can
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make sure we're getting the most out of all of these cards at the time that
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we're doing these videos just a reminder guys we do run all of our graphics cards
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overclocked at Linus Tech tips because we believe overclocking is relatively
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simple we've done guides on it in the past watch our guides do it because it
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is free performance however that means that sometimes the
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way cards stack up in our performance graphs is going to look a little
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different from how other people's do so if you check out the video description
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we've got a link to the overclocks we're running our cards at most of those
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should be pretty attainable for most of you on your own graphics cards so
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without further Ado let's get into the games starting with matro last Light we
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see a reasonably strong performance for the 760 it comes in a little behind the
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7950 but that stands to reason it is a little bit cheaper and it beats out the
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GTX x660 TI however given that this is a
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generational increase in naming sort of
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because it's a 760 replacing a 660 Ti
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which is typically a slightly uh boosted up skew uh maybe it's not as much as we
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might have expected in terms of performance increase and we're going to
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go through the slides pretty quickly because we're going to see uh some
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pretty uh repeating patterns here so
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Tomb Raider is pretty much the same thing so the 760 is a little bit faster
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than a 660 Ti almost within margin of error for this one next up is BioShock
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Infinite where the 760 is just a smidgen
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faster than a GTX 660ti almost within the margin of error moving right along
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we've got Far Cry 3 where the 760
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performs pretty much the same as the GTX 660 Ti Far Cry 3 blood Dragon shows us
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that the GTX 760 really does perform about the same as the GTX 660 GTI in
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this particular game especially once we overclock both cards and finally Crisis
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3 we see a 10% difference in performance
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between the 760 and the GTX 660 Ti so
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that was a bit of a a patterned sort of performance rundown wasn't it which
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leads us more than anything else to price to Performance analysis you get a
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bit of a savings versus the older 660 Ti you get as good or better performance
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across the board compared to the gtx6 60 TI and you get a very mature card
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running on the GK 104 core as well as a few more options because of that 256bit
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bus some manufacturers May opt to offer
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2 gig and 4 gig configurations whereas with 660ti we were tied to 2 gig and 3
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gig however it would be quite um quite
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debatable whether or not you would benefit from more than 2 gigs with this
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card at this time because it's very optimized for 1080P and not really
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resolutions above that although for those higher res texture Gamers out
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there yeah you might want all the vram that you can possibly get so in short
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the 760 replaces the 660ti at a lower
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price point with more performance does it look quite like the generational
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boost in performance that we were looking for maybe not quite especially
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when you compare it to something like 780 versus 680 but is it a worthy card
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at that price I think the answer is yes thank you for checking out this 1080p
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performance review of the GTX 760 from NVIDIA don't forget to subscribe to
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