For the money Nvidia have set out as the MSRP - just over £200 / $250 - the GTX 760 is looking good to take over the mid-range graphics market. It's a powerful little card at stock speeds though - and I would hope to see some impressive small-scale versions too thanks to the reference card's shorter PCB too. That's going to make it tricky for us to get behind the factory-overclocked cards, like the EVGA GTX 760 Superclocked card, but you can find out all about that in our GTX 760 Superclocked review. At stock settings GPU Boost 2.0 has the chip running at 1,136MHz under load, but even if you push the reference card to its limits at 1,254MHz I wasn't seeing much in the way of performance benefits. Sadly, despite the GPU Boost 2.0 shenanigans, there's not really anywhere to go in terms of overclocking the GTX 760. You can thank the 256-bit bus for a good deal of that. Even taking the tougher tests into account it's rare that the GTX 760 minimum frame rate drops much below 30fps at 1080p. In some of the gaming tests it was knocking around 30fps or higher at 2560x1600. Outside of Crysis 3, and the heavily-detailed Sleeping Dogs benchmarks, the sort of performance I was seeing from the GTX 760 makes it not a bad card at 1600p, let alone 1080p. Nvidia still hasn't sorted out the issues its hardware has with the global illumination in Codemaster's racing engine. In performance terms that translates to a pretty consistent lead over both the Radeon HD 7950 and the HD 7870 XT in the majority of tests, with only DiRT Showdown offering AMD a genuine performance lead. That 2GB GDDR5 is running along a relatively chunky 256-bit memory bus and the GPU is running with a full complement of 32 ROPs. The ol' GTX 670, the pricier elder statesman, has 1,344 cores, which is where it retains its performance lead over this newer, cheaper card.Įlsewhere though the GTX 760 is holding onto some high-end component specs. The GeForce GTX 760 then comes with 1,152 CUDA cores and runs at a 980MHz base clockspeed with 2GB GDDR5 video memory running at around 6GHz. What we have is a spec more similar to an OEM version of the GTX 660, which never ended up in my labs. You might then think the GTX 760 would simply tip up with the same spec as the GTX 670 but at the same price as the GTX 660. The GTX 770 was, after all, a barely disguised GTX 680, which was no bad thing when it turned up at the same price the GTX 670 is still sitting at.
So, what's in the GTX 760? Well, it's a little different to the GTX 770 in that it's 600 series twin is harder to distinguish.
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