NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Review: The New Enthusiast Kepler
by Ryan Smith on June 25, 2013 9:00 AM ESTTotal War 2: Shogun
Our next benchmark is Shogun 2, which is a continuing favorite to our benchmark suite. Total War: Shogun 2 is the latest installment of the long-running Total War series of turn based strategy games, and alongside Civilization V is notable for just how many units it can put on a screen at once. Even 2 years after its release it’s still a very punishing game at its highest settings due to the amount of shading and memory those units require.
Moving on to Shogun, we have our first title where the GTX 760 can beat the 7950B. The difference here is about 7%, which is going to be about average for the difference between the two cards. Meanwhile this is also a good example of where the GTX 760 will perform relative to the GTX 660 Ti and GTX 670 in most cases. The GTX 760 ends up coming very close to the GTX 670, leaving the GTX 660 Ti behind by 6%.
Meanwhile looking at our past cards, this is also a fairly typical case for the performance of the GTX 760 over that of the GTX 560 Ti and GTX 460. GTX 760 isn’t going to double GTX 560 Ti’s performance here, but it’s otherwise large enough that it reaches the magnitude we’d expect for a generational leap. In the case of Shogun that’s a 77% performance advantage, while the GTX 760 eclipses the GTX 460 1GB by 138%. In NVIDIA’s product cycle the GTX 760 is the closest replacement for these two cards for buyers in 2-3 year replacement cycles, and it shows.
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karasaj - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
Your thoughts seem to be a bit... Lacking :) thanks for the review!Ryan Smith - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
Did the CMS eat the final page again? Everything looks fine on my end.karasaj - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
The final page was missing when I first looked, after about 5 minutes it seemed cleared up :)ilkhan - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
Crysis 1 was an excellent template for the kind of performance required to driver games for the next few years, and Crysis 3 looks to be much the same for 2013.I think you meant "drive" not "driver"
Ryan Smith - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
Indeed. Thank you. Fixed.Guspaz - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
tl;dr: It's a GeForce GTX 670 for $100 less.That's not a dig on the article, it's well written, but that does seem to be what I'm reading from all the test results.
Atlas T. - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
Very informative review. The GTX 760 is undoubtedly a potential buy.I wonder if my i5-2310 2.9GHz (locked CPU) would manage to handle this little beast fully overclocked?
omarccx - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
It should do fine.UltraTech79 - Tuesday, July 2, 2013 - link
Even a shit i5 will be fine.Wreckage - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
AMD will now have to sell the 7970 for $200 and bundle 12 games with it.