NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Review: The New Enthusiast Kepler
by Ryan Smith on June 25, 2013 9:00 AM ESTBattlefield 3
Our major multiplayer action game of our benchmark suite is Battlefield 3, DICE’s 2011 multiplayer military shooter. Its ability to pose a significant challenge to GPUs has been dulled some by time and drivers, but it’s still a challenge if you want to hit the highest settings at the highest resolutions at the highest anti-aliasing levels. Furthermore while we can crack 60fps in single player mode, our rule of thumb here is that multiplayer framerates will dip to half our single player framerates, so hitting high framerates here may not be high enough.
Battlefield 3 has continued to favor NVIDIA parts and the GTX 760 is no exception. The gap at 1080p with MSAA is 20%, one of the largest leads for the GTX 760 out of all of our games. Even the full-fledged 7970 is still slower than the GTX 760 here by a few frames per second.
Meanwhile it’s interesting to note that this is another title that really favors the ROP performance advantage of the GTX 760, with the GTX 760 once more shooting well ahead of the GTX 660 Ti, coming within a few frames per second of the GTX 670. How close these cards depends on the game – as we’ve seen it’s anywhere between equal to a GTX 660 Ti to equal to a GTX 670 – but this is a fairly typical example of the GTX 760 giving the much more expensive GTX 670 a run for its money.
Finally, looking at our last generation cards the GTX 760 once again cements its position as a solid generational upgrade. At 1080p without MSAA we’re looking at performance 80% better than a GTX 560 Ti, and more than doubling the 6870 and GTX 460 1GB.
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Impulses - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - link
Hmm, it took a while but it seems like I finally have a suitable upgrade path from my CF 6950x2 (unlocked)... I paid about $225 for each of those and I just haven't seen a card (or a pair of cards) that would be a substantial enough upgrade for under $500. SLI GTX 760 is more than I was hoping for, when the 770 came in at $400 I almost expected this to come in at $300+.Now, the question is, will I be bottlenecking myself under future games with 2GB GTX 760s in SLI for gaming at 5760x1200 or 3600x1920? My 6950s have held up well but I've been playing a lot of older games too... Should I be looking at a single GTX 780 instead or something?
mapesdhs - Monday, July 1, 2013 - link
As is so often the case, that depends on the games you're playing, and whether you're
using any mods, etc. Heavily modded Skyrim definitely needs more than 2GB even with
one high-res display. Heavy AA also needs more VRAM. Personally, if I was going for
multi-screen gaming, I'd want more than 2GB. Others have mentioned a 4GB 760, so
maybe that's an option? Or of course there are the various 3GB AMD cards, though I
wouldn't bother with CF until AMD's new drivers are out.
Some advantages of getting a single 780: better upgrade path in the future, less
power consumption, no SLI issues. The down side of course is the cost.
Ian.
hasseb64 - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - link
headline:"The new Enthusiast kepler"
Enthusiast?
Ever heard about "Main stream"?
I have nothing more to say!
tynopik - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - link
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Buddhaz Priest - Friday, July 12, 2013 - link
Wow. initially I kind of panned the GTX 770 because I didn't feel it was enough of a jump from the 670 for the price difference. Seemed like it wasn't a big hardware jump and that you were paying for the software goodies like GPU Boost 2.0, but after seeing the number difference between the 670 and 770 I gotta say I'm pleasantly surprised with how well the 770 performs.BadThad - Friday, June 13, 2014 - link
Let's see, no mention of the R270? You can find them for $150-175 (cheaper than the GTX) and they are virtually the same as far as performance.j18kuhn - Thursday, January 22, 2015 - link
I got one at best buy for my first pc for 210 and now I'm waiting on the rest of my parts from amazonArtas1984 - Sunday, August 16, 2015 - link
Seeing how the new GTX960 is just slightly ahead of GTX760, i guess buying the GTX760 was a smart choice. The gap between GTX970 and GTX960 is MASSIVE.