The GeForce GTX 760 Roundup: Gigabyte and EVGA Compared
by Ryan Smith on October 7, 2013 2:00 PM ESTGaming Performance
Having taken a look at the specifications and construction of Gigabyte and EVGA cards, let’s dive into the matter of their performance. Note that the stock clockspeeds for these cards are within 13MHz (one boost bin) of each other; this goes for the boost clock and the max boost bin, too. Futhermore memory clocks are tied entirely at 6GHz each.
Because the two cards are so close in clockspeeds, there’s little appreciable difference to speak of in our benchmarks. They are for all intents and purposes tied; the margin for experimental variation is larger than the 1% variation in clockspeed between the two cards. That said, the EVGA card does end up technically surpassing the Gigabyte card rather consistently, which is somewhat surprising since it’s the Gigabyte card that has the clockspeed advantage.
Compared to a reference clocked GTX 760, both are notably faster, but not especially so. Without a memory overclock the performance gains are limited to scenarios where the games in question are mostly GPU limited as opposed to memory bandwidth limited, so the gains range between 3% in games such as Bioshock, up to 6% in games like Total War: Shogun 2. On average the cards are just 4% faster than their stock clocked counterpart, less than half the GPU overclock they possess. 4% is not insignificant, but it’s typically not enough to buy higher quality settings or higher resolutions. Factory overclocks really don’t start getting interesting unless we can pass 5%, which both cards are coming up just shy of.
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hags2k - Monday, October 7, 2013 - link
I like the design of the GB card and really do think it's superior, but I've grown to really love EVGA's software package and have made use of their transferable warranty twice already - the "added value" really is value in this case. It's a tough call!Subyman - Monday, October 7, 2013 - link
I have a MSI TF 760 and couldn't be happier. I compared them all when they first came out and the MSI and GB were the quietest and coolest. I was very pleased with the quality especially considering the price. Would live to see the MSI represented.Teizo - Monday, October 7, 2013 - link
Not sure why you guys didn't include the MSI 760 Gaming, or the ASUS Direct CU. I guess you didn't have them on hand.ShieTar - Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - link
Since the 760 is showing consistently >80% of the performance of a 770, at 60% of the cost, and since NVIDIAs drivers seem to handle framepacing in SLI mode quiet well now, I would really love to see some performance tests for a set of 760s in SLI. Could you please add those tests?Impulses - Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - link
Yeah SLI 760s seem like a terrific value, faster than any single card by a good margin and cost effective enough as to make the 770 a bit irrelevant... I'm trying to decide whether to get two 760s, as an upgrade from my 6970 x2 setup, or save up for 780 x2...Nfarce - Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - link
Guru3D has just such an animal of a review dating from this past June. Just Google "GeForce GTX 760 SLI" and you'll see the link right up there at the top two or three links that come up. The only downside is they don't review all the games (no BF3, no Crysis 3, no Far Cry 3 specifically). But it beats the Titan in Tomb Raider & Bioshock Infinite by 13-18% at 2560x1440. Very nice bang for the buck.idiot consumer - Sunday, October 13, 2013 - link
It is nice to see new gear coming out BUT:There are probably 50% of nvidia card owners with famous: "video driver stopped responding and has recovered"
There is no cure nor solution from nvidia or micro$oft.
The only solution is to buy new card until it happens again.
Forums all over the world are full of complaints.
How come that mayor reviewers like AnandTech could not care less?
Galidou - Sunday, October 13, 2013 - link
If they start to cover driver issues, both company wouldn't want their video card reviewed. The point here is to show the performance, not the possibility of various bugs/problems unless they're critical, BUT:I have a gtx 660ti for a year now and the problem has cursed me for a long time. It is/was worse in some games. I fixed part of it going to an earlier driver. I had a 6870 + 6850 in crossfire(I thought if I had any problem with crossfire I could disable it and play with the 6870) and never had a trouble with them, EVER.
idiot consumer - Sunday, October 13, 2013 - link
If they start to cover driver issues, both company wouldn't want their video card reviewed. The point here is to show the performance, not the possibility of various bugs/problems unless they're critical,Considering that nvidia suffered class lawsuit - in US only - unfortunatelly and has settled it confirms that issues are critical.
Good old days of excellent nvidia cards have gone forever.
I shall never buy from nvidia anymore.
Ryan Smith - Monday, October 14, 2013 - link
We report on things we see first hand and things we can reproduce. And right now we can't reproduce any NVIDIA driver stability issues (and not for a lack of trying).