The GTX 760's score of 29fps in Metro 2033 and 26fps in Metro Last Light was slightly behind the AMD Radeon 7950's 32fps and 27fps, respectively. In Metro 2033 and its sequel, Metro: Last Light, AMD pulled slightly ahead. Shogun 2: Total War, on the other hand, showed some differences-the GTX 760 hit 39fps here, slightly ahead of the more-expensive AMD Radeon 7950 at 37.5fps, but far behind the Nvidia GTX 770, at 50fps. The AMD Radeon 7950 also hit 89 fps, which puts all three solutions in an effective three-way tie. In Civilization V's "Late Game View" benchmark test, the GTX 760 was slightly behind the newer Nvidia GTX 770, at 87fps vs. In Metro Last Light, the game's "SSAA" (super-sampled antialiasing) box is checked, rather than a specific level of MSAA. Multisampled antialiasing was activated when available and turned up to 8x if possible. All of our tests were run at 1,920-by-1,080 with maximum details set. The GTX 690 performance was simulated using a pair of GTX 680s in SLI tests have demonstrated that the performance delta between the two configurations is essentially nil. We're comparing primarily against the AMD Radeon 7950, at $289, and the Nvidia GTX 770, at the heftier $399 price point. Our performance comparisons were done using an Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge CPU, 16GB of DDR3-1600, a 256GB OCZ Vector SSD, and a 27-inch Asus VG278HE monitor at 1,920-by-1,080 resolution. 2GB) and AMD's potent "Never Settle" bundle of video games to the new GTX 760 is AMD's own HD Radeon 7950, which starts at around $285. While somewhat more expensive, at $299, it also offers more RAM (3GB vs.
The closest AMD competitor to the new GTX 760 that we had on hand is the AMD Radeon HD 7950. Since Nvidia is keeping the Nvidia GTX 660 on the market, the new GTX 760 serves as an additional price point rather than an attempt to lift Nvidia's margins by raising the price of its midrange card. One difference between the GTX 660 and the new GTX 760 is the power requirements- the newer card requires a pair of six-pin PCIe connectors, where the 660 only needed one. Unlike the higher-end cards, all of which have borrowed the GTX Titan's cooler design, the GTX 760 keeps the plastic-shroud and styling of the 600 family. The card we tested is a 2GB GPU-Nvidia expects this to be the most common configuration, though manufacturers have the option to include 4GB if they see fit. It has 1,152 cores, 96 TMUs, and 32 render output units (ROPs), as compared to 960 cores, 80 TMUs, and 24 ROPs on the old GTX 660.