Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 review
Our Verdict
A great little mid-ranger, and a perfect reward for those gamers whove been putting off their GPU upgrade.
Component manufacturers love the bombastic use of military speak and the double whammy of GTX 700 series releases from Nvidia certainly have something of the shock-and-awe about them. This latest card, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 is no different, and sets to the middle order of AMD’s competing Radeon graphics cards.
It’s rare though that Nvidia and AMD don’t decide to launch their new graphics generations — whether they’re whole new architectures or range refreshers — at around the same time. Generally there’s only a few months between them at worst, with Nvidia normally the ones turning up late to the party, blaming the traffic on the way over or difficulties in hitting decent yields with new process nodes.
This time though it’s Nvidia who are the first to arrive, eagerly clutching their new silicon, with AMD kicking their heels back in Texas. But this apparently is not a delay, AMD have decided they are going to stick with their current range of HD 7000 GPUs until the end of the year, so confident are they in their existing cards. I’ve got to believe though somewhere there are some AMD Radeon execs who are sweating just a little more now.
When the GTX Titan and 780 dropped on the scene I’m sure they weren’t that fussed — those two cards sit almost entirely out on their own and are catering for a customer that arguably AMD isn’t servicing right now. But the price and performance of the GTX 770 must’ve been a real kick in the nuts. And now the GTX 760 is nipping in after and stealing AMD’s wallet while they lay there clutching their groin.
This is getting close to the real volume segment of the graphics card market then, and at £209 / $249 GTX 760 is really going to knock chunks out of some of AMD’s biggest selling cards. I expect the HD 7950 has been a right good earner for them, but this new Nvidia card is often times faster and always cheaper.
In the UK you’ll actually find a PNY reference version for less than £200 today.
Sadly, for AMD, it’s the same story in comparison with the HD 7870 XT — one of my favourite cards of the last generation. That Tahiti LE-based card used to retail around £170 in the UK, and there was nothing at that price to rival it. Unfortunately, possibly thanks to a combination of popularity and scarcity, they’re right now far pricier.
So, what’s in the GTX 760? Well, it’s a little different to the GTX 770 in that it’s 600 series twin is harder to distinguish. The GTX 770 was, after all, a barely disguised GTX 680, which was no bad thing when it turned up at the same price the GTX 670 is still sitting at. You might then think the GTX 760 would simply tip up with the same spec as the GTX 670 but at the same price as the GTX 660.
Well, it doesn’t. What we have is a spec more similar to an OEM version of the GTX 660, which never ended up in my labs.
The GeForce GTX 760 then comes with 1,152 CUDA cores and runs at a 980MHz base clockspeed with 2GB GDDR5 video memory running at around 6GHz. The ol’ GTX 670, the pricier elder statesman, has 1,344 cores, which is where it retains its performance lead over this newer, cheaper card.
Elsewhere though the GTX 760 is holding onto some high-end component specs. That 2GB GDDR5 is running along a relatively chunky 256-bit memory bus and the GPU is running with a full complement of 32 ROPs. In performance terms that translates to a pretty consistent lead over both the Radeon HD 7950 and the HD 7870 XT in the majority of tests, with only DiRT Showdown offering AMD a genuine performance lead. Nvidia still hasn’t sorted out the issues its hardware has with the global illumination in Codemaster’s racing engine.
Outside of Crysis 3, and the heavily-detailed Sleeping Dogs benchmarks, the sort of performance I was seeing from the GTX 760 makes it not a bad card at 1600p, let alone 1080p. In some of the gaming tests it was knocking around 30fps or higher at 2560×1600.
Even taking the tougher tests into account it’s rare that the GTX 760 minimum frame rate drops much below 30fps at 1080p. You can thank the 256-bit bus for a good deal of that.
Sadly, despite the GPU Boost 2.0 shenanigans, there’s not really anywhere to go in terms of overclocking the GTX 760. At stock settings GPU Boost 2.0 has the chip running at 1,136MHz under load, but even if you push the reference card to its limits at 1,254MHz I wasn’t seeing much in the way of performance benefits. That’s going to make it tricky for us to get behind the factory-overclocked cards, like the EVGA GTX 760 Superclocked card, but you can find out all about that in our GTX 760 Superclocked review .
It’s a powerful little card at stock speeds though — and I would hope to see some impressive small-scale versions too thanks to the reference card’s shorter PCB too. For the money Nvidia have set out as the MSRP — just over £200 / $250 — the GTX 760 is looking good to take over the mid-range graphics market.
If you’re looking to upgrade your graphics card now, with a £200 / $250 budget, this is as good as it gets.
But who should be upgrading? Well, that all depends on the card you’re running at the moment and the native resolution you’re going to be gaming at. If you’re running at a standard 1080p resolution then pretty much any £150 / $200 card of the last generation will still be giving you decent frame rates in the latest games. And the top cards of the generation before are still gaming happily away at that resolution too.
But right now AMD have really got to pull their fingers out and make sure their HD 8000 series really delivers some serious performance leads over their current hardware. The GTX 700 series has upped the price/performance level another notch. And AMD will need that lead too if Nvidia’s new Maxwell GPUs manage to come out on time in early 2014.
Benchmarks
All of these benchmark tests were run on the same stock-clocked i7-3770K setup with an Asus Sabertooth Z77 motherboard and 16GB of Corsair Dominator RAM running at 1,600MHz.
The gaming tests ran at top settings with 4xAA (with the exception of Crysis 3 which is a bast when it comes to AA) and these figures are from the 2560×1600 benchmark runs. The first number is the average frame rate and the number in parentheses is the minimum frame rate achieved.
You can see the overclocked EVGA card only delivers a couple extra FPS here and there, with the HD 7950 lagging behind too. There are a few places where the AMD card can claim some parity with the new Nvidia mid-ranger in performance terms, but the GTX 760 is still retailing a good chunk cheaper.
AMD might need to at least start slashing prices if they want to get competing again.
DirectX 11 tessellation performance
Heaven 4.0 – FPS: higher is better
Nvidia GTX 760 – 20.1 (12.6)
EVGA GTX 760 SC – 20.6 (13.3)
AMD HD 7950 – 18.2 (10.5)
Nvidia GTX 670 – 22.2 (13)
Generational gaming performance
Batman: Arkham City — FPS: higher is better
Nvidia GTX 760 — 63
Nvidia GTX 660 — 50
Nvidia GTX 570 — 39
DirectX 11 gaming performance
Bioshock Infinite – FPS: higher is better
Nvidia GTX 760 – 40 (13)
EVGA GTX 760 SC – 40 (12)
AMD HD 7950 – 32 (16)
Nvidia GTX 670 – 45 (14)
Crysis 3 – FPS: higher is better
Nvidia GTX 760 – 22 (18)
EVGA GTX 760 SC – 24 (14)
AMD HD 7950 – 21 (16)
Nvidia GTX 670 – 25 (20)
DiRT Showdown – FPS: higher is better
Nvidia GTX 760 – 41 (32)
EVGA GTX 760 SC – 42 (33)
AMD HD 7950 – 48 (37)
Nvidia GTX 670 – 43 (33)
Max Payne 3 – FPS: higher is better
Nvidia GTX 760 – 27 (17)
EVGA GTX 760 SC – 30 (17)
AMD HD 7950 – 29 (20)
Nvidia GTX 670 — 26 (14)
Sleeping Dogs – FPS: higher is better
Nvidia GTX 760 – 18 (9)
EVGA GTX 760 SC – 21 (13)
AMD HD 7950 – 21 (15)
Nvidia GTX 670 — 21 (13)
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Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he’s back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.
MSI GeForce GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC 2GB Review
Written by
Harry Butler
July 4, 2013 | 09:53
Tags: #gtx-760
Companies: #msi
1 — MSI GeForce GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC 2GB Review2 — Test Setup3 — MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC — Battlefield 3 Performance4 — MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC — Bioshock Infinite Performance5 — MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC — Crysis 3 Performance6 — MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC — Skyrim Performance7 — MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC — Unigine Valley 1.
0 Benchmark8 — MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC — Power and Thermals9 — MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC — Overclocking10 — MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC — Performance Analysis and Conclusion
Manufacturer:MSI
UK Price:£221.00 Inc. VAT
US Price:$259.99 ex. TAX
Nvidia has successfully perked the graphics market from its mid-cycle stupor with the launch of the GTX 760 2GB. Sat at the mid-point between the mid-range £150 GTX 660 2GB and high-end GTX 670 2GB, the stock 760 2GB already performance close to the GTX 670, leaving plenty of opportunity for board-partners to bridge the gap.
Click to enlarge — a 260mm PCB and heat-pipe heavy custom cooler up the overclocking ante
MSI’s take on the GTX 760 2GB is the GTX 760 Twin Frozr Gaming OC 2GB, a significantly up-rated version of the card in almost every way, not least PCB size.
While the stock 760 runs a dainty 175mm PCB and requires a pair of 6-pin PCI-E power connector, the Twin Frozr Gaming’s PCB is a lengthy 260mm and requires an 8pin and a six-pin power connector; the same connectors as a stock GTX 770 2GB.
While the PCB might have been extended, the basic feature set and layout of the card, and the GPU, remain the same. To the rear are a pair of DVI outputs as well as full-size DisplayPort and HDMI ports (with support for up to four simultaneous displays), while a pair of SLI gold-finger connectors on the top of the card support up to four of the cards in SLI.
Click to enlarge — a pair fo 100mm fans blow air down through the heatsink and over the PCB, but this means heat is exhausted into your case
Those looking for a recap of the GTX 760 GPU would be best served by reading our stock card review, but the Twin Frozr Gaming’s GPU is no different physically. The GPU is still a 28nm GK104 chip, sporting six SMs of 192 stream processors for a total of 1,152 stream processors.
While this is actually fewer steam processors than the GTX 660 Ti 2GB (the card the GTX 760 2GB replaced) the GTX 760’s full-size 256-bit memory interface and array of 32 ROPs allow it to out-pace its predecessor.
Of course, one area of the GPU that MSI has been able to improve is its clock speeds, with the Twin Frozr OC boasting a fairly healthy factory overclock. As with all Nvidia’s GeForce 7-series cards, it uses GPU Boost 2.0 to automatically adjust the clock speed between a base clock, a guaranteed boost clock and a best-case boost clock. While the stock card’s 130MHz boost curve starts at 980MHz, the Twin Frozr OC’s begins 40MHz higher at 1,020MHz, boosting to a guaranteed 1,073 and a maximum of 1,150MHz. This is actually a rather timid 4 per cent overclock, especially when you add the fact that the card’s 2GB of GDDR5 is clocked at the stock frequency of 1.5GHz (6GHZ effective).
Click to enlarge — The 1GB of GDDR5 on the rear of the PCB is bare and not actively cooled.
However, the Twin Frozr OC’s got an extra trick up its sleeve courtesy of MSI’s generically named ‘Gaming App.’ This simple bit of software allows you to instantly switch the card between three different clock speed profiles; OC, Gaming and Silent. It’s the OC profile that’s most intriguing, as this further boosts the card’s base clock by an additional 45MHz. Of course, you could just as easily add those extra few MHz using MSI’s Afternburner overclocking utility, but MSI’s push to grant that extra performance to those who perhaps aren’t so tech savvy is a welcome one.
Aside from its clock-speed shenanigans, the Twin Frozr OC also improves Nvidia’s GTX 760 recipe in the most obvious way; the cooler. The stock card, at stock frequencies and settings will easily bounce off its 81°C thermal ceiling and begin to clock itself down a bit, so MSI’s solution is fit the latest version of its well-regarded Twin Frozr cooler. This updated version uses a pair of 100mm down-draft cooling fans fitted atop a huge array of aluminium cooling fins.
Pulling heat from the GPU core and dispersing it through the fin stack are four nickel plated copper heatpipes, with the GPU sandwiched beneath a nickel plated contact plate to ensure all four heatpipes make good thermal contact with the small 294mm² die.
Click to enlarge — an aluminium plate cools the power delivery circuitry and memory on one side of the PCB
MSI’s modifications go further than just bolting a big cooler to the GPU though. There’s also a sturdy aluminium plate affixed to some of the power circuitry and the GDDR5 modules on one side of the GPU. As well as cooling the component, this also has the added benefit of adding rigidity to the card to reduce board-bend over time, although the further 1GB of GDDR5 on the PCB’s back side is bare and receives no cooling.
Click to enlarge -Four heatpipes run behind a contact plate to draw heat away from the GPU
The power circuitry itself uses five phases for the GPU and a separate pair of phases for the memory, with 7+1 phase power for the card overall.
Despite this, Nvidia’s stangle hold on its GPU voltages remains and regardless of OC software you’re only able to add a measly 12mV of additional power to the VCore.
With a monster cooler and a decent factory overclock, lets find out how the Twin Frozr OC fared in our benchmarks, and more importantly, when overclocked.
MSI GeForce GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC 2GB Specifications
- Graphics processor Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 Ti 2GB, 1,020MHz (boosting to 1,073MHz guaranteed and 1,150 max)
- Pipeline 1,152 stream processors, 96 texture units, 32 ROPs
- Memory 2GB GDDR5, 6.GHz effective
- Bandwidth 192GB/sec, 256-bit interface
- Compatibility DirectX 11.1, OpenGL 4.1
- Outputs/Inputs 2 x DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort
- Power connections 1 x 8-pin, 1 x 6-pin PCI-E, top-mounted
- Size 260mm, dual slot
- Warranty Two years
1 — MSI GeForce GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC 2GB Review2 — Test Setup3 — MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC — Battlefield 3 Performance4 — MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC — Bioshock Infinite Performance5 — MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC — Crysis 3 Performance6 — MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC — Skyrim Performance7 — MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC — Unigine Valley 1.
0 Benchmark8 — MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC — Power and Thermals9 — MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC — Overclocking10 — MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr OC — Performance Analysis and Conclusion
ASUS GTX 760 DirectCU Mini OC Review
Article NavigationPage 1: IntroductionPage 2: SpecificationPage 3: GPU Boost 2.0Page 4: GeForce ExperiencePage 5: FeaturesPage 6: Packaging & AccessoriesPage 7: First LookPage 8: Closer LookPage 9: Test Setup & MethodologyPage 10: Temperature, Acoustics and Power ConsumptionPage 11: Futuremark 3DMark Fire Strike (Synthetic)Page 12: Unigine: Heaven 4 (Synthetic)Page 13: Unigine: Valley (Synthetic)Page 14: Battlefield 3 (FPS)Page 15: Crysis 3 (FPS)Page 16: Far Cry 3 (FPS)Page 17: BioShock Infinite (FPS)Page 18: DiRT: Showdown (FPS)Page 19: The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim (FPS)Page 20: Gaming Experience (Frame Time Analysis)Page 21: Average and 99th Percentile response times (Frame Time Analysis)Page 22: Value For MoneyPage 23: Overclocking (GPU BOOST 2.
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ASUS GTX 760 DirectCU Mini OC Review
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Closer Look
To keep the heatsink and thus the core cool ASUS have used their new and advanced 360-degree CoolTech axial fan. Even in DirectCU Mini form, the proprietary design delivers up to 20% (claimed) cooler temps and three times quieter performance than reference.
Again, we see the dreaeded sticker of doom. Remove or destroy this stick and you will invalidate the warranty of the GPU. ASUS clearly do not want you to remove the cooler as the only way to do so is to break this sticker which covers one of the spring loaded screws holding the GPU to the heatsink.
After removing the heatsink (thereby ending the cards warranty), we see that the DirectCU mini cooler is made up of a vapor chamber which has direct contact to the GPU core.
The TIM used was like glue, so much so that it took much more ‘persuasion’ than usual to break the seal between Core and heatsink. Removing the TIM was also very difficult as it had set like concrete! Thankfully our sample had very good contact with the core so if our example is anything to go by, you should have little need to break the warranty and replace this TIM.
The PCB is the same size as the reference design and a similar layout. Half of the memory is on the core side while the other is exposed on the rear. The VRM is furthest away from the power socket and has also been tweaked slightly.
The voltage regulation module is a 4+1 power phase design and is made up of ASUS’ ‘Supper Alloy power’ modules. These allow for 30% higher voltage threshold. Dedicated SAP CAPs and alloy chokes ensure those crucial overclocks are reached without the resonance/buzzing of traditional power chokes.
The Direct Power design acts as a highway between components and the GPU.
Rather than having a single route which causes electron congestion, the Direct Power allows for alternate routes for a cleaner power delivery which lowers impedance (-56%) and thus PCB temperature (-7.4c).
The memory modules are HYNIX and carry the product code of H5GQ2h34AFR R0C which means while they are the same ones used on the reference design, they overclock exceedingly well.
The final piece in the jigsaw is the beating heart of the GTX760, the 6 x SMX GK104 core.
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Gigabyte GeForce GTX 760 OC 2GB GDDR5 (GV-N760OC-2GD (rev.
2.0)) reviews, video review, specifications, description GDDR5 (GV-N760OC-2GD (rev. 2.0))
Reviews
belarus747
An excellent video card for gaming with a couple of years to spare.
Great! First, why this particular card, performance/price ratio. The cooling system justifies itself, I personally have a maximum temperature of 55 degrees. celsius, when loading Gpu 98-99%. Competently works by the way, you watch movies, etc. consumes less energy. But, pay attention to the overall dimensions and power of your PSU, the GTX760 is demanding here 🙂 Personally, I didn’t have any problems: the 880W PSU fit into the case with a whistle 🙂 I bought it from Gigabyte, since an excellent cooling system is installed, already overclocked. Quiet, productive, power reserve +1.
2 years, many connectors for connecting to a monitor, price / performance. If you don’t find fault, then no 🙂
freedos
For 2014 — the best investment for the future.
Excellent! Literally the 3rd day of testing this video card, I decided to immediately write a review. Of course, I can’t compare with other video cards, but I played low games on the i5 4670k built into the core, there was also a 9800GTX + — outdated in all respects, but extended Crysis 2 on average. Briefly about the model.
Noise:
I assembled a silent computer — 20 dB. When I inserted the card, nothing changed. — background 30-36 dB in the house — the card gives out 24-28. Launched Noire. I play 30 minutes — there is no noise — cool. I start Crisis 3 — I heard that the valves are starting — but this is not at all the howl and hum that at 9800gtx+ measured 38 dB — it just played great for 30-40 minutes.
The result of 60% of the games is silence, 40% is a light breeze — this is a full-length map, gentlemen — show respect.
Temperature:
Cold as a mother 29-45.
Size: I had to remove the frame — I decided not to shove.
Performance:
You will get the most out of her today. For such money it’s good — all that I haven’t played, and these are 30 games — 60 … 150fps — i.e. flies. Although this is not the most important thing in a video card of this level, the main thing is the prospect, taking into account the overclocking potential due to the full format of this card and a good cooling system.
Compromise: Why not 650ti boost? Yes, the 650 is cool — my brother has it — super, but the prospect of dismounting from ultra to max / high / medium is in one year. And in 760 at +1/+2 years.
This is the golden mean of 2014. Overclocking freedom, performance, quiet. No
Navada
Everything is super, take it without a doubt
Excellent! For a very long time I could not choose a video card, but I decided to allocate funds, albeit a lot, but for a high-quality video card.
And I was not mistaken how much the video card turned out to be very good both in performance and in its design (cooling devices of 3 coolers and its radiator are very well-chosen cooling).
As for games, all the games of 2013 at the maximum are all super. The temperature was measured at 100% load of the GPU as it showed 63 degrees, which is relatively very good.
And what surprised me was that it is very quiet, the ribs of the screws are made with a bend for a large air flow and little noise, for which special thanks to the manufacturers.
The video card is fully consistent with its price, very productive, I put 5 stars!
There is 1 moment to look at your system unit, the fact is that the video card is large enough so make sure that it will fit into your case.
The video card in the photo is installed in the system unit Cooler Master Silencio 550 Quiet
Not heated
Everything to the max
No glitches
Easy driver installation Did not detect
Reiwen
Excellent gaming card!
Excellent! I join all the positive words about the map.
Two heat pipes cope with a bang! Productive, cool, quiet even under load. Big 🙂 but not a problem for me
Shmalle
Excellent! 101%
Excellent! Well, now it’s time to write a review. I myself choose components based on reviews only, and now I will leave mine on the account of the performance of the Gigabyte GTX760. I bought it with cooling 2.0.
I took this video card 2 weeks ago in conjunction with I7 4770k, 12 gb of Kingston 16000 operatives — 99 9 27, Matt. asus Z87M-PLUS board. And what can I say: I was particularly pleased with the video card. The performance is amazing. I pulled out «Hitman absolution 2013» on Ultra (everything to the maximum) on a monitor with FullHD 1920×1080. If you leave the anti-aliasing «MSAA 8x» then the game starts to murmur a little — it gives out 60 FPS in a quiet place and 25 — 30 FPS in the loudest place (playable but not idial).
if you put «MSAA 4x» it’s impossible to notice the difference by eye — then it gives out 40 — 60 FPS, which is a playable without uncomfortable space. But, if you overclock through the «nvidia inspector» and increase the voltage, etc., then you can reach 55 — 60 fps at ultra settings + MSAA 8x. So judge for yourself, think it’s good for 260 USD. or not. Personally, I think it’s just awesome for the price. I’m attaching a screenshot of nvidiainspector (only chrome is running) in an undisassembled form. And so, in general, Gigabyte has never let me down and is unlikely to let me down. Take it boldly and put it on, but look that she has a size 295 mm. Not expensive but very productive! The quietest video card Not at all
Skeis
Take it from gigabyte, you won’t regret it.
Excellent! Powerful beast. Worthy replacement 670.
Temperature in idle (30), in games (60). 1860 MHz memory chip. (I did everything in msi afterburner). In my opinion, gigabyte has the best board components of all gtx 760 manufacturers. My 2 friends took the same hedgehog cards. with the help of boost 2.0 in extreme situations it works at 1320 MHz !!!. All games are played on ultras. Very quiet. 1. Productivity that will last another 5 years. Low noise level. Excellent cooling. Build quality and components are top notch. Overclocking potential. Not found.
Alexander
Super
Excellent! The video card is super, any games in 2014 on ultra settings without brakes and freezes. Price quality with a bang. Price quality a bit noisy
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Palit GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1024MB GDDR5 (NE5X55T0HD0
Characteristics and features
It’s time to get acquainted with the main characteristics of the Geforce GTX 760 2GB WindForce 3X video card:
- Standards — DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.
3. - Chip frequency — 1085 MHz.
- The frequency of the chip in auto overclocking is 1150 MHz.
- Shaders — 5.
- Memory capacity — 2 GB.
- Memory frequency — 6008 MHz.
- Bus — 256 bits.
- Connection type — PCI-E 3.
- Number of occupied slots — 2.
- SLI support — yes.
- The maximum number of connected monitors is 4.
- Connectors for connection — DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort.
- The maximum image resolution is 4096 x 2160.
- Additional power — yes, 6 + 8 PIN.
- Maximum power consumption — 225 W.
- Length — 295 mm.
According to its characteristics, the video card is very good, but there are several important points. The first is 2 GB of memory. In order to play most modern (and future) demanding games, you need at least 3-4 GB at least. The second point is high power consumption. The manufacturer claims that in the most peak loads, the video card will consume a maximum of 225 watts, but in reality this figure can reach 300 watts.
So before buying this model, you will need to take care of a good power supply, preferably 750-800 watts.
Now for the possibilities. Although there is 2 GB of memory, the card can easily handle most modern and heavy games, such as DOOM, The Witcher 3, Watch Dogs 2, etc. Of course, in some cases, the graphics settings will have to be lowered to medium or medium high, but nevertheless you can play comfortably.
MSI Gaming RTX 2070
Features:
- Overclocking up to 1800 MHz
- 8 GB GDDR6 video memory
- 256-bit memory interface
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HDMI port
- DirectX 12 support
Designed with the latest technology, this MSI gaming graphics card is highly efficient and delivers ultra-fast gaming experience. You’ll get next-gen performance as the processor features ray tracing and AI cores for maximum performance. Thus, the graphics card is up to 6 times faster than previous generation GPUs (10 series).
The device has a frequency of 1800 MHz and a 256-bit memory interface. What’s more, with Nvidia’s drivers and software, you’ll be able to shoot, share, take screenshots, and watch live streams.
Ways to overclock a video card
In addition to the already described removal of software limiters, there is another type of overclocking — hardware. So, the overclocking utility increases the voltage on the core, and with it the frequency increases. Power consumption also increases, so take care of a good power supply and its thorough cooling. But you should be extremely careful and with a step in increasing the frequencies. Mining video cards speed up by almost 50-60 percent, but they do it in 5 percent increments so as not to harm the hardware. And remember that any excess of factory capacity is fraught with a decrease in service life, and failure due to such actions is not covered by the warranty.
It is often necessary to overclock a video card on a laptop, but this is already much more dangerous.
After all, in a personal computer you can easily replace any component and install additional cooling if necessary, in a laptop it is impossible. But still, increasing the frequency even by 10 percent can be useful, and you will surely see changes, for the better. For any such manipulation, you will first need to install software that will make changes to the hardware and monitor all temperature indicators so that you do not accidentally burn the video card processor.
Cooling System
One of the main features of the GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G is its proprietary TwinFrozr 7 cooling system. On this graphics card model, this CO has a somewhat simplified design.
Thin heatsink consists of many aluminum fins and one 6mm nickel-plated copper heatpipe.
The heat pipe in the cooling design of the GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G contacts the GPU via direct contact. Heat dissipation is also provided using thermal pads and from GDDR5 memory chips.
Two Torx 3.0 fans attached to the plastic shroud of the video card are used to blow the heatsink.
These branded turntables are interesting with a combination of traditional and dispersion blades. According to the manufacturer: more thoughtful aerodynamics of the cooling system radiator and accelerated airflow due to the increased bending angle of the fan blades allow you to achieve better temperature indicators.
The manufacturer of these fans is PowerLogic. The GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G uses 90mm turntables marked PLD09210S12HH.
Cooling efficiency and overclocking
GPU-Z information explains why the GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G graphics accelerator needed an additional 6-pin PCIe power connector. The manufacturer has set the standard power consumption limit for this video card at 85 watts. The user can programmatically increase this limit up to 100 watts.
TwinFrozr 7 cooling system on GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G supports passive mode. In the absence of load on the accelerator, the fans stop, which ensures completely silent operation of the video card. Under these conditions, the GPU heats up to 47 degrees Celsius, being cooled only by a cooling radiator.
Our experiments with a full load of the graphics card showed that the GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G GPU can be heated up to 67 degrees Celsius. To keep the GPU at this temperature, the graphics card runs the fans at 48% or 1534 rpm. At the same time, the boost frequency of the graphics processor is confidently kept at 1905 MHz, which is even slightly higher than the values declared by the manufacturer.
We were able to overclock the GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G by +160 MHz on the GPU and +1500 MHz on the GDDR5 memory. After overclocking, the temperature indicators of the GPU did not change during the load, and only the CO fans slightly accelerated their work to 49% potential or 1562 rpm.
We tested the stability after overclocking the GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G in the 3D Mark TimeSpy Extreme stress test, which uses 20 runs of this benchmark.
We also measured the amount of noise that our test system with the GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G could generate at a distance of 15 cm from the measuring device.
The tested video card GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G can be classified as a quiet graphics card.
Specifications and features
It’s time to take a look at the specifications of the Nvidia Geforce GTX 760 Twin Frozr video card:
- Standards — DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.4.
- Chip frequency — 1085 MHz.
- The frequency of the chip in auto overclocking is 1150 MHz.
- Shaders — 5.
- Memory size — 2/4 GB.
- Memory frequency — 6008 MHz.
- Bus — 256 bits.
- Connection type — PCI-E.
- Number of occupied slots — 2.
- SLI support — yes.
- The maximum number of connected monitors is 4.
- Connectors for connection — DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort.
- The maximum image resolution is 2560 x 1600.
- Additional power — yes, 6 + 8 pin.
- Maximum power consumption — 170 W.
- Length — 263 mm.
It can be seen from the characteristics that in terms of support for MSI standards, it is obviously in the black, since there are 12 DirectX and a newer OpenGL.
It is also worth noting the low power consumption, so you do not have to think about buying a more powerful power supply.
It is definitely worth mentioning a small supported resolution as a minus — nevertheless, this figure is higher for competitors.
Now about the possibilities. Despite only 2 GB of memory, the video card can easily cope with many games, however, at medium or high settings. For example, in GTA V on high settings, you can comfortably play at 35-40 fps. In Battlefield 1 on medium, the video card shows a stable 50-60 fps. The situation is similar with Mafia 3. But fans of the Witcher series will be pleasantly surprised. The third part is quietly played on ultra settings and without brakes.
There is also a 4 GB version of the card, and there the performance situation should be slightly better, but it is more difficult to find such an option on sale.
PCB
Removing the cooling system sheds light on how much shorter the physical PCB of the GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G could be.
But it turned out the way the manufacturer intended it. And this was done primarily with an eye on the TwinFrozr 7 cooling system with two fans.
The GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G circuit board has a lot of empty space on both the front and back. But on the reverse side of the PCB, part of the surface is occupied by the MSI corporate logo in the form of a white dragon.
The GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G is based on the TU117-300A1 GPU manufactured in week 50, 2018. In this model of the graphics accelerator, the GPU received a serious overclocking up to 1860 MHz (against 1665 MHz of the reference solution). The graphics processor, made according to the 12 nm process technology, has 896 CUDA cores, 56 texture units and 32 rasterization units. The memory on the GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G graphics card is represented by four GB GDDR5 modules manufactured by Micron, labeled 8KB77 D9VVR. The operating frequency of the memory is 8000 MHz, the bus between the GPU has a width of 128 bits.
The GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G has a 3+1 phase power supply.
GPU power management is entrusted to the uP9509S controller, which is responsible for three phases.
Another power phase is dedicated to GDDR5 memory chips. The voltage on it is regulated by the GS7256 microcircuit, soldered in the immediate vicinity of this power harness.
The GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G graphics card does not require a powerful power supply. However, this graphics adapter is equipped with a 6-pin auxiliary power connector, which is required for the GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G to work.
MSI GAMING GTX 1080
Features:
- 352-bit memory interface
- 11GB GDDR5X VRAM
- 2 PCI-E power connectors
When you purchase a GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card, you get unrivaled performance, next-gen gaming, and energy efficiency. It also supports Ultra High Definition (UHD), and with the help of software, it can deliver sharper images and much finer compression details in games even at 1080p. The graphics card is also quite durable, as it has a metal backplate, and the matte black lacquer finish matches the coolers perfectly.
In terms of specifications, the card has a 352-bit memory interface and 11 GB of GDDR5X video memory.
MSI Gaming GTX 1070
Features:
- Support for 4K type displays
- Cold
- High bandwidth cache
GTX 1070 only requires a 300W PSU. The graphics card is equipped with 8 GB of GDDR5 memory and MSI TORX 2.0 coolers, which quickly and reliably remove all heat, and this ensures long gaming sessions. In addition, the graphics card not only supports 4K monitors, but also ultra-high resolution 7680 x 4320.
For a long time, this graphics processor was considered the best on the market. It offers good performance at a reasonable price. In addition, there is also DirectX 12 support.
Very quiet
Are you ready to discover an unforgettable and unparalleled gaming experience? Then the MSI Gaming RTX 2060 graphics card will certainly not disappoint! It runs on the Nvidia Turing platform and provides advanced features for content creators and gamers.
You also get next-gen features and performance with ray tracing and AI for the ultimate experience.
What’s more, with GeForce Experience, you can take screenshots, shoot videos, and stream, as well as share them with your friends. In addition, the video card has two coolers and is equipped with 6 mm thick copper tubes, which provide maximum heat dissipation.
Features
| Warnings | |
| Mining WARNING | These video cards are often used for cryptocurrency mining, respectively, they are subjected to «overclocking» and modification of firmware in the PROM. Therefore, we remind you that “overclocking”, like any other interference with the normal operation of the device, may lead to the removal of the warranty. |
| Key Features | |
| Manufacturer | MSI |
| Series | GAMING |
| Model | N760 TF 2GD5/OC find a similar video card |
| Equipment type | Game video card |
| GPU | |
| GPU | GeForce GTX 760 |
| Process | 28 nm |
| GPU frequency | 1150 MHz maximum in GPU Boost (OC) mode, 1085 MHz base frequency (OC Edition) |
| Number of Shader Processors | 1152 |
| Number of pixel pipelines | 96, 32 texture fetch units |
| Video card memory | |
| Video memory | 2 GB |
| Video memory type | GDDR5 |
| Video memory bus width | 256 bit |
| Video memory frequency | 6008 MHz |
| Features | |
| Support for general purpose computing on GPU | DirectCompute 11, NVIDIA PhysX, CUDA, CUDA C++, OpenCL |
| PhysX | Yes |
| API | DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4. 2x |
| Technology | TXAA (Temporal Antialiasing), GPU Boost (Dynamic CPU Clocking), Adaptive V-Sync (Adaptive V-Sync), DSR (Dynamic Super Resolution), NVIDIA GameStream-Ready (ability to stream gameplay to mobile devices) |
| Monitor support | |
| Ports | DisplayPort, DVI-D, DVI-I, HDMI ports |
| RAMDAC | 400 MHz |
| Max. number of connected monitors | 4, up to 3 displays can be combined in 3D Vision Surround |
| Maximum screen resolution | 4096 x 2160 when connected to DisplayPort or HDMI, 2560 x 1600 when connected to DVI, 2048 x 1536 (when analog monitor is connected) |
| HDCP support | Yes (1080p) |
| Cooling | |
| Video card cooling | Active cooling |
| Number of fans | 2 fans |
| Cooling system name | Twin Frozr IV |
| Video card fan speed control | Automatic |
| Cooling system design | Dual-slot cooling system |
| Power supply | |
| Power connector | 8 pin+6 pin matching power adapters |
| Recommended power supply | 500W suitable for graphics card PSU |
| Energy consumption | 170 W |
| Compatibility | |
| OS support | Windows XP x64, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 |
| Length | 260 mm |
| Low profile board | No |
| Interface | PCI Express 3. 0 16x (compatible with PCI Express 2.x/1.x) with the ability to combine cards using SLI. |
| SLI support | Card merging possible with Tri-SLI, SLI |
| Other features | |
| Video card sound output | NVIDIA HDMI audio |
| Logistics | |
| Package dimensions (measured in NYX) | 34.51 x 26.43 x 8.28 cm |
| Gross weight (measured in NYX) | 1.307 kg |
Packaging and Contents
For the Gaming series of graphics cards, MSI has often adopted red packaging. In the case of the GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G, a black box awaits the buyer. On the front side, not only the image of the video card itself is shown, but also key technical features are indicated.
The back of the GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G package is dedicated to the description of the graphics card cooling system and the backlight element. The system requirements for this video card model are also indicated here.
In particular, the power supply will require a power of 300 W with one 6-pin PCIe power connector.
In addition to the graphics adapter itself, the box also contains a user manual, an assembly guide, a customer thank you card, as well as a CD with drivers and proprietary software.
Design and features
The GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G, although a budget graphics accelerator, is not at all cramped in size. Dimensions are 39 x 245 x 127 mm in thickness, length and height, respectively. The video card turned out to be so long due to the use of the TwinFrozr 7 cooling system with two 90mm fans. Due to the matte gray casing with chopped shapes, the GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G looks brutal and aggressive.
«GeForce GTX» on the top of the graphics card case to identify the adapter in the installed system.
On the other hand, the plastic casing of the video card almost does not cover the cooling radiator, allowing you to see the use of a heat pipe in the CO design.
Focusing on the budget segment does not deprive the GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G of the right to stand out in the system.
To do this, a backlight module with the name of the cooling system and the name of the manufacturer is implemented on the upper end.
The grille for the connector panel is also inspired by MSI Gaming. Here the user will find a pair of DisplayPort 1.4 and one HDMI 2.0b. With their help, you can display the image on three monitors at the same time.
MSI RX 580
Features:
- Excellent 4K performance
- Very quiet
Technology continues to evolve and over time, computer games have become one of the most popular forms of entertainment. Therefore, in order to make gaming more “alive”, this powerful graphics card was developed. It has 8 GB of GDDR5 video memory, PCI-Express x16 bus, 8000 MHz memory frequency, 1366 MHz base frequency and AMD Radeon RX 580 chipset.0028
Dual fans provide a large heat sink to help dissipate the heat generated by the GPU. For efficiency and performance, copper heatpipes are in contact with the surface of the GPU to provide efficient cooling.
Results
The GeForce GTX 760 has a very interesting combination of price and performance, being a pleasant summer surprise from NVIDIA in the mid-range graphics class. If we talk about the reviewed models, then both video cards leave a very good impression.
Gigabyte GV-N760OC-2GD in the base version has a noticeably increased GPU frequency, which brings a few extra frames / s compared to the reference. The power block and the GeForce GTX 680 printed circuit board that the adapter got, allow you to boost the video card well, and the efficient cooler copes with the increased load without any problems.
MSI N760 TF 2GD5/OC, part of the Gaming series, also offers improved components and excellent durability. In the overall standings, we give the minimum advantage to the device from MSI, which is awarded the «Editor’s Choice» award. A very quiet cooling system is a rarity for video cards of this level, so the reviewed model will be an excellent option for demanding fans to play in silence.
Video card MSI N760 TF 2GD5/OC provided for testing by MSI, ua.msi.com
Pros:
A very quiet cooling system is a rarity for video cards of this level, so the considered model will be an excellent option for demanding fans to play in silence.
Cons:
Practically none.
Conclusion: The
GeForce GTX 760 offers a very interesting combination of price and performance, being a nice summer surprise from NVIDIA in the midrange graphics class. If we talk about the reviewed models, then both video cards leave a very good impression.
Specifications
| Type | Video card |
| GPU manufacturer | NVIDIA |
| GPU | GeForce GTX 760 |
| Memory, GB | 2 |
| Memory type | GDDR5 |
| Interface | PCI Express 3.0 x16 |
| Cooling system | active |
| Cooling design | original (TWIN FROZR IV) |
| GPU operating frequencies, MHz | 1150 |
| Memory frequencies, MHz | 6008 |
| Memory bus bit | 256 |
| Output connectors | 2xDVI Dual Link (1xDVI-I and 1xDVI-D), 1xHDMI, 1xDisplayPort |
| Dimensions, mm | 260x126x38 |
| Low Profile | — |
| Power supply | 1x8pin+1x6pin |
| DirectX | DirectX 11. 1 |
| Miscellaneous | MILITARY CLASS 4 components; support for NVIDIA PhysX, NVIDIA SLI, NVIDIA GPU Boost 2.0, NVIDIA 3D Vision, NVIDIA Adaptive V-Sync; MSI Afterburner; |
Review and test of the video card ASUS GTX 760 DirectCU II OC GreenTech_Reviews
in Video cards / Reviews tagged GTX 760 DirectCU II / GTX 760 DirectCU II review / GTX 760 DirectCU II benchmark / GTX760-DC2OC-2GD5 / Hynix H5GQ2h34AFR-R9C / Richtek RT8867A review 9018 and 47 admin 9018 review ASUS GTX 760 DirectCU II OC video cards (GTX760-DC2OC-2GD5).
Recently, lovers of mid-range graphics cards have learned about a new card — the GeForce GTX 760. Some may think that this card is the minimum for a modern gaming computer. But if you look at the specifications, you can see that the card is based on the GK104 GPU and is only slightly inferior to the GTX 670, which is too early to write off.
In this review, we will get acquainted with the DirectCU II OC version from ASUS, which should have not only a high-quality element base and efficient cooling, but also a great overclocking potential. The «OC» version tells us that the card is already overclocked by the manufacturer. In this case, only 26 MHz in the core (although in Boost we really get a stable 1163 MHz, which is quite good), and the memory is unchanged (still the same 6008 MHz).
As you may have guessed, the video card combines a proprietary printed circuit board using the latest technologies (DirectPower, Super Alloy Power) and proprietary DirectCU II cooling system.
The package includes:
— CD with drivers and software
— User’s manual
— Power adapter from 2×6-pin to 1×8-pin
Not a lot, but nothing extra, for which I would not want to overpay.
The appearance of the card has undergone some changes, but we already know the new shroud from the GTX 780 DirectCU II OC.
We turn the card over and see that the cooling system is somewhat larger than the PCB, so the length of the video card (from the bezel on the back panel to the edge of the casing) is 21.5 cm with a PCB length of 17 cm.
The grounded Direct Power plate is designed to improve heat dissipation from the GPU, which it successfully copes with — it gets quite hot in operation, and the cool air currents in the case remove heat from it.
An 8-pin power cable is required for the graphics card to work.
You can display the image through:
-DisplayPort
-HDMI
-DVI-D
-DVI-I (you can connect a VGA cable through the appropriate adapter)
It is possible to build a 3-Way SLI system from video cards (and possibly a 4-Way system if there are people who modify the drivers).
The main radiator consists of a section of aluminum plates, which are strung on 4 nickel-plated copper heat pipes. Two of them have a diameter of 6 mm, and two more — 8 mm (they are in contact with the GPU).
At idle, the temperature of the GPU with automatic fan speed control is 27-28 degrees (1000-1100 rpm). Under load, the fan speed increases to 2400-2500 rpm, and the temperature is 69-70 degrees. The video card is very hard to hear.
If you manually set the maximum rotation speed (3300-3500 rpm), but in idle time the temperature dropped to 26 degrees, and in load to 63-64. At the same time, the noise level remains at an acceptable level.
Video card without cooling. It reminds us of something, albeit with slight differences… And — GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU Mini!
Small aluminum heatsink mounted on mosfets.
It comes into contact with them through a soft thermal pad.
The power subsystem has 4 phases for the GPU and one for the video memory.
Controls their work Richtek RT8867A.
2 GB of GDDR5 video memory are formed using 8 Hynix H5GQ2h34AFR-R0C chips.
Information from GPU-Z:
Boost frequency rises to 1163 MHz
We managed to overclock the video card to 1161 (1227 in Boost) for the core and up to 7208 MHz for the memory (from the nominal 6008 MHz).