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this video is brought to you by the intel core i7 4770k unlocked processor if you're a speed freak added until 3500 series SSD to your Haswell system for a truly enthusiast class experience welcome to my 1080p performance review of the geforce gtx 760 from nvidia this card uses the GK 104 core which is the same as the last generation GTX 670 and 660ti the latter of which it replaces however there have definitely been some tweaks this card is targeted squarely at 1080p gamers so it's in that 250 dollar sweet spot price point and it delivers compelling performance in modern games at high details at 1080p although you might want to step up to something a little bit juicier like a GTX 780 if you want to game it resolutions above that so what tweaks have been made so a few things number one is clock speeds have been increased number two is that memory bandwidth has been increased we've gone from a 192 bit bus on the 660ti to a 256 bit bus here ROP s have also been increased from 24 to 32 however there has been a decrease it actually has fewer CUDA cores than the gtx 660ti that it replaces so it remains to be seen how that all translates to real-world performance speaking of real-world performance we test all of our games in as real-world scenarios as we can meaning timed benchmarks using fraps yes we know FCAT is more effective however we are only testing single GPU setups here so it makes less of a difference in this case and unfortunately we don't have a frame capture setup yet so hopefully that's coming at some point for our test bench we've got a p9 x79 deluxe with 16 gigs of kingston ram a core i7 30 960 X at 4 gigahertz and an Tek high current Pro 1000 watt at the Platinum power supply 128 gig SSD and we are using afterburner and/or precision for our overclocking needs with the NVIDIA 3 20.39 driver and AMD 13 point 6 beta driver we have switched over to using beta drivers just so we can make sure we're getting the most out of all of these cards at the time that we're doing these videos just a reminder guys we do run all of our graphics cards overclocked at Linus tech tips because we believe overclocking is relatively simple we've done guides on it in the past watch our guides do it because it is free performance however that means that sometimes the way cards stack up in our performance graphs is going to look a little different from how other peoples do so if you check out the video description we've got a link to the overclocks for running our cards that most of those should be pretty attainable for most of you on your own graphics cards so without further ado let's get into the games starting with Metro last light we see a reasonably strong performance for the 760 it comes in a little behind the 7950 but that stands to reason it is a little bit cheaper and it beats out the gtx 660ti however given that this is a generational increase in naming sort of because it's a 760 replacing a 660ti which is typically a slightly boosted up skew maybe is not as much as we might have expected in terms of performance increase and we're going to go through the slides pretty quickly because we're going to see some pretty repeating patterns here so tomb raider is pretty much the same thing so the 760 is a little bit faster than a 660ti almost within margin of error for this one next up is BioShock Infinite where the 760 is just a smidgen faster than a gtx 660ti almost within the margin of error moving right along we've got Far Cry 3 where the 760 performs pretty much the same as the gtx 660ti Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon shows us that these gtx 760 really does perform about the same as the gtx 660ti in this particular game especially once we overclocked both cards and finally Crysis 3 we see at 10% difference in performance between the 760 and the gtx 660ti so that was a bit of a pattern sort of performance rundown wasn't it which leads us more than anything else to price to performance analysis you get a bit of a savings versus the older 660ti you get as good or better Mormons across the board compared to the gtx 660ti and you get a very mature card running on the gk 104 core as well as a few more options because of that 256 bit bus some manufacturers may opt to offer to gig and 4 gig configurations whereas with 660ti we were tied to two gig and three gig however it would be quite um quite debatable whether or not you would benefit from more than two gigs with this card at this time because it's very optimized for 1080p and not really resolutions above that although for those high res texture gamers out there yeah you might want all the vram that you can possibly get so in short the 760 replaces the 660ti at a lower price point with more performance does it look quite like the generational boost in performance that we were looking for maybe not quite especially when you compare it to something like 780 versus 680 but is it a worthy card at that price I think the answer is yes thank you for checking out this 1080p 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