NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Review: The New Enthusiast Kepler
by Ryan Smith on June 25, 2013 9:00 AM ESTSynthetics
As always we’ll also take a quick look at synthetic performance, though as GTX 760 is just another GK104 card, there shouldn't be any surprises here. These tests are mostly for comparing cards from within a manufacturer, as opposed to directly comparing AMD and NVIDIA cards. We’ll start with 3DMark Vantage’s Pixel Fill test.
The 3DMark Pixel Fill test confirms what we’ve seen in or earlier results, with the full 32 ROP/256-bit configuration of the GTX 760 giving the card a notable advantage in this ROP and memory bandwidth bound scenario. It also validates why the GTX 670 and GTX 760 are so close in these scenarios.
Moving on, we have our 3DMark Vantage texture fillrate test, which does for texels and texture mapping units what the previous test does for ROPs.
The texel test on the other hand correctly points out the worst case scenario. In purely shader and texture bound scenarios, even with its higher clockspeeds the GTX 760 still can’t make up for the lack of an SMX relative to the GTX 660 Ti and GTX 670. Thankfully as we’ve seen in our game benchmarks performance is being dictated more often by the ROP improvement than the loss of the SMX.
Finally we’ll take a quick look at tessellation performance with TessMark.
Tessmark is surprisingly consistent, with the GTX 670, GTX 660 Ti, and GTX 760 all in a virtual tie. GTX 760 lacks the Polymorph Engine that comes with the 7th SMX, but in this test the lack of tessellation performance from that loss is getting completely offset by the higher clockspeeds of the GTX 760.
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YukaKun - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
And where's my beloved GTX670?! Are you guys hiding something here that nVidia doesn't want me to see?No, but really; I know it's not it's direct replacement, but I'd really like to see the numbers how they stack up.
Cheers!
Ryan Smith - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
The GTX 670 is in all of our charts. All of this data is also on Bench.YukaKun - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
Yeah, just realized it is... I wonder why I didn't see it, lol.Selective reading at its finest indeed.
Thanks Ryan!
HisDivineOrder - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
AMD is now saying the Never Settle Reloaded bundle is running out at retailers. That means, you should be mentioning that it isn't going to last much longer and doesn't really factor into the value of the 7950/7950B unless they decide to renew it.I suspect though they'll do a price drop soon.
DanNeely - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
I'd expect them to create a new bundle instead.kallogan - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
Too big, barely better than 660 ti at higher power consumption. What's the point ?MrSpadge - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
Too big: there will loads of custom coolers, just like on the current cards. Shorter ones as well.barely better than 660 ti at higher power consumption: the additional performance is approximately proportional to the added power draw, so efficiency hardly suffers. Of course I'll stick with my OC'ed 660Ti, but this newcomer is just more balanced for everything but the most pure compute tasks.
What's the point: cheaper for nVidia to produce (one SMX less) and sold cheaper. It's a win-win.
jimwatkins - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
I suppose this is of little interest to most readers, but since your doing computer performance, how about a bitcoin GH performance chart. Video cards are actually of waning value in the bitcoin arms race but it's an interesting aspect of compute performance nonetheless and the high end AMD cards certainly still produce value.dcianf - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
I'm excited to see them maintain compatibility with my 660Ti/670 full card waterblock. PLEASE LET THIS BE A NEW STANDARD!JimmiG - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
Well it's hotter, more power hungry and louder than the GTX 670 while still being slower, which is kind of disappointing for something that's supposed to be an evolution of the GTX 600 series. Still, it does feel like "GTX 660 Done Right" in some ways, as that card was always too slow, forcing people to pay $400 for the GTX 670.It's sad that prices have been creeping up so much without people noticing. $499 used to be the "ultra-enthusiast" segment, and $199 would buy you a very decent card. In 2012 and early 2013, $400 was the "mid-range" and $999 the "ultra high-end". GTX 760 brings the mid-range back to $250 again, at least until the GTX 860 come out at $499...