GTX760 Review Thread

[AustinInDallas]

Ive been waiting on the 7870 LE to go on sale again for 210. Last time they came with 2 games, and people were easily selling the games for 50-60 bucks.

Would I be better off just settling and going with a card like this? or waiting for the 7870LE sale again?

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

The 7xx series is lame. Hardly any discussion because people are tired of being beaten over the head with nvidia's greed and trying to pass off refreshes as a next gen card.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

7950 = $250 after MIR (Sapphire) with 4 free games. GTX760, after what, almost a year? Same price, no free games, OC's significantly worse. Why does AMD have to change anything?

Don't forget less vram as well. This card is a turd. The seven series belongs in the dumpsters of tech history.

 

[wand3r3r]

Newegg already has the sapphire 7950 for $250 AR.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...CE&PageSize=20

http://techreport.com/review/24996/nvidia-geforce-gtx-760-graphics-card-reviewed/10
TR calls it a draw between the 760 and 7950.

HWC says -1% to 3% difference.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...views/61844-nvidia-gtx-760-2gb-review-15.html

AT on the other hand calls it a good card with an 8% difference.

In my opinion it brings nothing new to the table, a $30 price drop from the 7950 already ties/invalidates it.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

This is a tech forum. If you can't overclock or don't consider it in the equation then please go back to console gaming.
When you overclock both the 760 gets stomped. End of story. The 760 needs to be cheaper because it performs worse.

 

[Face2Face]

Ive been waiting on the 7870 LE to go on sale again for 210. Last time they came with 2 games, and people were easily selling the games for 50-60 bucks.

Would I be better off just settling and going with a card like this? or waiting for the 7870LE sale again?

Good luck selling those games for $50-$60. I bought the never settle bundle on [H] for $25. People are pretty close to giving them away

This is a tech forum. If you can't overclock or don't consider it in the equation then please go back to console gaming.
When you overclock both the 760 gets stomped. End of story. The 760 needs to be cheaper because it performs worse.

I think we need to see how well the GTX 760 OC'd compares to a 7950 OC'd. Linus did his test, but failed in showing us the GTX 760 clocks. A head to head would be nice. LMK if you find one.

EDIT: Looks like Linus posted the OC'd GTX 760 clocks

http://bit.ly/14Bp8yM

 

[amenx]

Games in Anandtechs GPU reviews needs updating. Civ V (CPU heavy game) and Crysis WH? What about Tomb Raider and Metro LL? These are pretty graphics intensive games that more people would be interested in today than Crysis WH.

 

[XiandreX]

I want to see some better OC 7950 vs. OC GTX 760 comparisons. I think it's safe to say most people on this forum can hit 1150 core on their 7950. Time will tell with the GTX 760.

I hit 1150 core on a budget ( price wise) 7950 3gb boost. My gut tells me no amount of overclockng will make up the gap but i could be wrong.

 

[SirPauly]

What's nice about the sku is it allows tri-sli! The GTX 660 and GTX 560 did not.

 

[Headfoot]

Hilarious. Everyone bitches and moans about how overpriced the Titan is but as soon as a card comes out with the same performance as its previous generation counterpart but MUCH cheaper suddenly everyone complains about "it uses more heat and isn't that much faster"

No pleasing you people

 

[ocre]

The 7xx series is lame. Hardly any discussion because people are tired of being beaten over the head with nvidia's greed and trying to pass off refreshes as a next gen card.

wow. There are some pretty outrageous statements around here. Completely lacking any basis in reality.

Why would this card make amd sell the 7950/70 for less? The 7950 smokes it once both cards are overclocked.

Btw I paid $260 for my 7950 with free games.

Are you really asking this?
Uhm, let me see.................. because they kinda need to sell them!!!

You obviously are seeing things a little warped. Nvidia already has the largest majority of market and mind share. Although you may not be aware (or it is completely escaped your rational thinking), Nvidia commands just about two thirds of the discrete market share.
http://jonpeddie.com/publications/add-in-board-report/

This is with their higher premiums.....or should we use your terms, all that "greed" and "beating people over the head". Nvidia tends to sell their GPUs at a higher price and they do quite well, as their ability to dominate the market shows. If they can outsell their competitor 2 to 1 with higher pricing, common sense should tell you that at a lower price the situation could only get worse for AMD. And overclocking is doing nothing to change this, it hasnt yet and isnt just suddenly going to.

To put in more perspective, AMD has about 20% of the x86 market last i checked. Instead of loosing, it is very important for them to gain market share in dGPU.

So to sum it up,
I can see you may not have a high opinion of nvidia and you think highly of AMD. There is nothing wrong with that. Its just in the real world you have to think past your opinions to get a grasp of whats really going on.

It would be a terrible tragedy if AMD took your stance on the matter. You know like, "the 7XX series is lame and everyone is tired of nvidia and why lower prices when the 7950 can overclock". It would not be very smart.

 

[ocre]

@RS

GK110 is out, there is no excuse for such a cut chip at the $250 price bracket, ironically the 680 you're comparing it to is a $250-$300 chip.

Prices are all jacked up, so are deep cuts to mid-range dies for mid-range products.

Drop the 780 to $550, make a 40 ROP GK110 for $370, now GK104 slots in perfectly at 150w TDP, better perf/w, some actual overclocking headroom, and a $250-$300 price.

But that's me

:twisted: trader!!!



lol

 

[toyota]

The 7xx series is lame. Hardly any discussion because people are tired of being beaten over the head with nvidia's greed and trying to pass off refreshes as a next gen card.

Don't forget less vram as well. This card is a turd. The seven series belongs in the dumpsters of tech history.

This is a tech forum. If you can't overclock or don't consider it in the equation then please go back to console gaming.
When you overclock both the 760 gets stomped. End of story. The 760 needs to be cheaper because it performs worse.

ok drama queen

btw the EVGA 760 when overclocked is 26% faster than a stock 760 which sure as hell is not bad. http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/EVGA/GTX_760_SC_ACX_Cooler/30.html

 

[Siberian]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7103/nvidia-geforce-gtx-760-review/9

The 760 is even giving the 7970 a run for it's money. Impressive card for the price. Could end up being the best card of this generation.

 

[Silverforce11]

Its priced well, performs between a 660ti and 670, which depending on the games tested, puts it around 7950 levels.

The 7950 is the best card this generation, its price drop to around $330 a few months after launch and stayed low the entire time, now it can be had for ~$250. With a whooping 40% OC headroom with great scaling (still LOL@ AMD for setting default core clocks at 800mhz .. a few minutes tweaking, it runs at 1.2ghz!), its been the card that rewards enthusiasts who love to OC and get amazing perf/$$.

The gtx760 is the card to get for gamers who don't want to mess with big OC. Its good value out of the box, which is something that is completely missing from NV on 28nm so far. The problem is the lack of OC headroom for these cards. ie. My gtx670 default performance is @ 1058mhz, with some tweaking, it boosts to 1168mhz, around a 100mhz increase or 8% core clock. That's weak. These cards need more voltage control and they would be excellent overclockers.

 

[hyrule4927]

What's nice about the sku is it allows tri-sli! The GTX 660 and GTX 560 did not.

Interesting, I hadn't noticed that. Not sure who would want triple midrange cards, but it is certainly nice to have options.

 

[toyota]

Its priced well, performs between a 660ti and 670, which depending on the games tested, puts it around 7950 levels.

The 7950 is the best card this generation, its price drop to around $330 a few months after launch and stayed low the entire time, now it can be had for ~$250. With a whooping 40% OC headroom with great scaling (still LOL@ AMD for setting default core clocks at 800mhz .. a few minutes tweaking, it runs at 1.2ghz!), its been the card that rewards enthusiasts who love to OC and get amazing perf/$$.

The gtx760 is the card to get for gamers who don't want to mess with big OC. Its good value out of the box, which is something that is completely missing from NV on 28nm so far.

an oced 760 and typically oced 7950 will still be almost neck and neck.

 

[Silverforce11]

ok drama queen

btw the EVGA 760 when overclocked is 26% faster than a stock 760 which sure as hell is not bad. http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/EVGA/GTX_760_SC_ACX_Cooler/30.html

@_@ at those vram speeds.. ridiculous OCs on a bandwidth starved chip = great gains.

Compare: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_760/30.html

vs: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GeForce_GTX_760_TF_Gaming/30.html

Similar core clocks, only a 40mhz difference, but the massive vram OC leads to huge gains.

So in retrospect, these cards offer good OC but its reliant on vram, which varies a great deal and requires lots of benches to ensure no error correction drop offs etc.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

:twisted: trader!!!



lol

I'm an equal opportunity company basher. :thumbsup:

 

[Silverforce11]

I'm really impressed with NV's MC, getting >1900mhz GDDR5 speeds is insane.

 

[Elfear]

Didn't see this posted yet. 3DCenter compiled the results for the 760 from multiple reviews.

Across 10 reviews sites at 1080p 4xAA the results were:

760 was 5% faster than 7950
760 was 2% slower than 7950 Boost
760 was 7% slower than 670

Across 7 reviews at 1600p 4xAA:

760 was 2% faster than 7950
760 was 4% slower than 7950 Boost
760 was 7% slower than 670

The 760 is priced well for its performance and has slightly lower power consumption than the 7950B. I'll bet it will be a popular card.

I'd really like to see a compilation of overclocking results. Seems like some sites saw great results and others not so much.

 

[toyota]

the 760 will probably sell more than all 7900 series combined.

 

[blackened23]

Indeed, I can see this card selling very well. I'm pretty impressed by the performance and the 250$ price - It isn't as good as what I consider the best x60 - the GTX 460, but near 670 performance for 250$ isn't bad at all. That being said, linus tech tips did an overclocking review between the 7950 and the 760 with surprising results in favor of the 7950 by a sizable margin, but AMD just can't price based on that because overclocking isn't guaranteed - everything has to be priced on how a SKU performs out of the box. And out of the box with no modifications the 760 is better.

I think AMD just needs to re-adjust all of their prices across the board once the bundle promos run out to compete.... If they have new cards coming in September as rumors indicate, i'd imagine that would hold things over for those few months.

 

[Siberian]

the 760 will probably sell more than all 7900 series combined.

Even if you ignore benchmarks and prices, launching with Haswell was brilliant.

 

[psolord]

Probably one of the best reviews and computer hardware site, Hardware Canucks

http://www.legitreviews.com/

Legitreviews' SLI test, shows 760 SLI to be considerably faster than 780 and Titan. So much for ridiculous price tags...! Dual gpu forever baby!