Gigabyte GeForce GTX 760 OC 4GB V1 Review + SLI
Published by Christian Ney on 27.09.13Page:
Conclusion
| General | + | - | |
| Meanwhile we have tested five different GeForce GTX
760 and this Gigabyte leaves us with mixed feelings. Starting with the
good, the OC 4GB V1 is a high quality product with a nice design, a
better power design, a nice factory overclock and an oversized cooler. Now the bad, the extra amount of memory doesn't bring much, it only makes the card more expensive at first look and the card could be much quieter. |
- Factory Overclocking
- Performance - Cooling - Design |
- Noise level | |
| Cooling / Noise Level | + | - | |
| Like MSI for example, Gigabyte also equips its card
with an oversized cooler but unfortunately there is something missing. Overall the WindForce 3X 450W cooler is good. The design and quality are good, temperatures are very good and the entire card is cooled well. But, unfortunately the cooler isn't as silent as we thought it would be. It could be quieter, after playing BattleField 3 for an hour the maximum temperature hit by the GPU was 65°C. In this case the maximum fan speed was 51%, translated it means a noise level of about 37.5 dBA (silent but you hear the card). It's not as bad as some other coolers but it is as loud as the DirectCU Mini from ASUS and the two coolers are far from being in the same league. |
- Cooling performance | - Noise levels | |
| Performance | + | - | |
| The 760 OC 4GB V1 is surprisingly fast. It's
perfectly normal that the card is fast with 1'228 MHz on the speedometer
but it manages to outperfm the MSI HAWK
which is clocked higher almost everywhere. Not much on average it's only
1% but there and there it was up to 5%. Since the memory chips are the
same, the manufacturer didn't do any tweaking on the memory timings and
the video memory usage never go above 1.5GB in the tested games we think,
for now, that the performance gain lies on the memory path. In other
words a system memory single sidded/dual sidded like effect. A closer look at power consumption shows, that our test system, equipped with the GTX 760 OC 4GB V1, burns 46 Watts under idle conditions and 197 Watts under load. Both results are very good, especially under load. |
- Performance/Watt
- Power consumption |
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| Performance SLI | + | - | |
| The SLI is on average 1.6x faster in the tested
games. Compared to high end cards such as the GTX Titan and GTX 780, the
GTX 760 OC 4GB V1 SLI is respectively 1.2 and 1.3x faster. In this case
the 760 SLI benefits from a much better Performance/Price ratio since
for less you have more performance. Power consumption wise the ratio is lower obviously but it's still on a good level. |
- Performance/Price
- Power consumption |
- Performance/Watt | |
| Recommendation / Price | + | - | |
| With a starting price of 263 Euros excluding
shipping costs accross the EU, the OC 4GB V1 isn't really cheap. That's about
60 Euros on top of the cheapest 760 and 15 Euros more expensive than the
HAWK from MSI for example. Obviously such higher price is because of the
extra onboard memory but since more memory on such a card doesn't bring
else than a price increase it makes the card less interesting. The SLI however is very interesting for those who wants performance and have a 530 Euros budget. |
- Gaming | - Price | |
| We gave the GeForce GTX 760 OC 4GB V1 from Gigabyte 4 out of 5 stars. | |||
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