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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idiot consumer - Monday, October 14, 2013 - link
Hi Ryan;I trust you in that regard. However you have to consider a large number of nvidia drivers failures:
"video driver stopped responding and has recovered" is dreaded response by thousands.
Now:
"And right now we can't reproduce any NVIDIA driver stability issues (and not for a lack of trying)."
response despite many forums full of frustrating users, is oil to the fire. This is response of nvidia and Micro$soft. After spending many hours collecting info I have found the way to cure the problem.
Every case is different as it depends on programs installed, Micro$oft number and type of updates and user setting in nvidia control panel.
That is why brand new installations are working fine - and then = after few months dreaded driver again....
It cost me way too much time and frustration just to find that relation ie. windows7 and nvidia drivers is strange.
They do not talk to each other......when they do new drivers or windows update online....
As a result, customers are suffering.
I have fixed my two systems, not a single fault after that, but not all customers have knowledge time and nerves to fix something that should never happen.
Best regards to you - I do understand that you have to do what you do....
darrrio - Tuesday, August 5, 2014 - link
i just bought the evga right before i saw this article.. now im afraid im not sure i did the right thing. the Gigabyte is in every war nicer than the evga... what stresses me most is the temperature :(( dont know if i should refund the card and get a Gigabyte..