NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Review: The New Enthusiast Kepler
by Ryan Smith on June 25, 2013 9:00 AM ESTSleeping Dogs
Another Square Enix game, Sleeping Dogs is one of the few open world games to be released with any kind of benchmark, giving us a unique opportunity to benchmark an open world game. Like most console ports, Sleeping Dogs’ base assets are not extremely demanding, but it makes up for it with its interesting anti-aliasing implementation, a mix of FXAA and SSAA that at its highest settings does an impeccable job of removing jaggies. However by effectively rendering the game world multiple times over, it can also require a very powerful video card to drive these high AA modes.
With Sleeping Dogs the GTX 760 is once again back on top, although this time it’s a close fight between it and the 7950B. In this case the gap at our higher 1080p settings is just 3%, nearly a tie. Meanwhile it’s interesting to see the GTX 760 doing so well compared to the GTX 670 here, even beating it just slightly. The use of SSAA hits the ROPs and shaders pretty hard, so while we’d typically expect the GTX 760 to fall behind the GTX 670 here, this appears to be a case where the higher core clockspeed and resulting higher ROP performance works in the GTX 760’s favor.
With our minimum framerates however the GTX 760 falls behind the 7950B. Here AMD’s competitor performs about 7% better at our highest 1080p settings, keeping AMD’s card above 50fps.
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DanNeely - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
The 8800 Ultra was a $650 card. Ignoring the Titan we're back where we were 7 years ago.nsiboro - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
AMD delaying Sea Island until Q3'2013...I just feel someone over @AMD is crazy and didn't think thru end users' point of view.
With the release of Haswell, many will be putting together new boxes and the "new" GPU they'll get will be gtx760/770/780. AMD losing fans and revenue... *sigh*
silverblue - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
I'm not sure I follow. Haswell doesn't appear to have amazed that many people - you could get away with an SB or IB build which overclock enough to make up the performance difference. If you already have one of those, with proper cooling you don't need to save money for a marginally better CPU - spend it on graphics instead.DanNeely - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
It's not the SB/IB people upgrading; it's those of us with first generation i5/i7 systems or even older core 2 quads pulling the trigger now. AMD is out of the race except at the bottom and it's probably going to be two more years before Intel offers anything else worth mentioning on the desktop. (No socketed Broadwell chips, and assuming IVB-e and Haswell-e are as underwhelming at the $3xx pricepoint as SB-e is.)Dark_wizzie - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
I wished it included a benchmark with Skyrim on 2560x1440, with the hardcore texture mods on, AA/AS on pretty high with Ultra. Debating between this ($250), 7970... ($310!!!), 770 ($400)Ryan Smith - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
You request will be taken under consideration, but I'll tell you right now that you shouldn't expect it to happen. One of the tenets of our testing methods is that we don't test with mods; they're often not optimized (or worse, optimized only for the developer's system) and frequently updated (making our benchmarks useless). Plus the number of users on any given mod is very low, which would mean our benchmarks wouldn't be very applicable to most of our readers.edlee - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
something tells me if you SLI two GTX 760 it would destroy the GTX 780 at a lesser pricexTRICKYxx - Wednesday, June 26, 2013 - link
Google some benchmarks. It goes toe-to-toe with the GTX 690 and Titan in every game I've seen. All for $500... Good deal!GTan - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
Hopefully I will be building my first PC ever in a few weeks, I'm glad that Nvidia released the 760, since the 770 at $400+ is too expensive for me. My budget for my PC is $800-900. I was originally 90% sure I was gonna buy the GTX 760, $250 is a great price, but now since I've seen deals for the 7970 for as low as $300, I'm wondering is it worth it for pay a extra $50 for the 7970 (plus the 4 games). End question, what is a better value for the newb PC builder: a $250 GTX 760 or a $300 7970? Thanks!thesavvymage - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
if you want the games, 7970. If not, id go wit hthe 760 for being quieter and using less power