NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Review: The New Enthusiast Kepler
by Ryan Smith on June 25, 2013 9:00 AM ESTHitman: Absolution
The third game in our lineup is Hitman: Absolution. The latest game in Square Enix’s stealth-action series, Hitman: Absolution is a DirectX 11 based title that though a bit heavy on the CPU, can give most GPUs a run for their money. Furthermore it has a built-in benchmark, which gives it a level of standardization that fewer and fewer benchmarks possess.
With Hitman the GTX 760 once again lags the 7950B. At 1920 with 4x MSAA this is a 13% gap, though with framerates in the 40s neither card does exceptionally well for an action game here. Even as NVIDIA’s fastest 1080p card, 1080p at High settings is a more realistic option, which pushes the GTX 760 to 70.3fps, while also closing the gap to the 7950B to just 7%.
The minimum framerates in HItman are fairly steady, so although the GTX 760 can only hit 40fps for an average, it bottoms out above 30fps. Still, it trails the 7970B by 10% at our higher 1080p settings.
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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.