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Geforce GTX 760 1080P Performance Review (LinusTechTips)

Hmmm I've got around £220 to spend on a card to run at 1080p with an i5-3570k. I was edging towards a 7950 or second hand 7970 though to be honest.
 
Hmmm I've got around £220 to spend on a card to run at 1080p with an i5-3570k. I was edging towards a 7950 or second hand 7970 though to be honest.

Im in a virtually similar position. 7950 seems the better bet . i got a week to decide. I prefer nvidia but the AMD cant be ignored.
 
My advice, for what it is worth.

If you intend to overclock then the 7950 is probably the better bet as it can really fly when it stretches its legs.
If you do not intend to overclock the 760 is 5-10% faster at stock and 10% cheaper which kind of makes it the obvious choice for the non overclocker.
 
I think overclocking the AMD should be a breeze. Or am i wrong. Never had any bother clocking my last few GTX cards. last AMD i had was the Ati 9700 yonks ago. Correct me if im wrong as ive no experience with clocking AMD cards. As to the GTX760 overclocking, seems easy enough also. I think.
 
Sorry the image just cracked me up and seeing your pot kettle black rant it seemed approapriate. Just joking of course. :p

Let me make it perfectly clear to you. This is exactly the sort of bickering which has left us no choice but to start banning users. You have been warned about this and if you want to keep access you need to start winding your neck in a bit.
 
Roundabout the same price, people can argue the toss about benchies and reviews forever, the truth is they're not that far apart, if people were honest and were too take on board most reviews, we've seen reviews and benchies can be manipulated and set up to favour one card or the other.

The reality is comparing cards over two brands is not apples and apples, both have strengths in certain games and weaknesses in others. I'm starting to actually wonder whether these reviews and benchies are worth anything in reality, unless you can show clear blue water.

We've seen the endless pages of pages GPU wars and they end up being nothing more than exercises in fanboism and sophistry.

My one POV is they're very similar performing cards, there's no definitive benchmark for comparing cards either, one can find review A that favours NV, and review B than favours AMD. The whole exercise seems self-defeating with close performing cards.

All it does is boil up geek juice to ridiculous levels.

It all comes down to personal choice and what suits you in the end, my own POV is there's better value with AMD because of the free games and you do get 3GB of VRAM, now whether today that matters that much is questionable, but there's no doubt that going forward the more VRAM the better. It's a self evident truth, 3GB is better than 2GB, end of story, but there are 4GB 760'S on the way - so clearly both teams see VRAM as a selling point. With a well priced custom cooled 4GB 760 avalaible, i'd buy that.

To try and argue that one card is better than the other definitively and for everyone is absolutely stupid.

I'd buy a 7950 today out of the two, for the reasons outlined, but those reasons may be unimportant to someone else.

Bang for buck the 7950 is ahead, but for someone with a specific need that the 7950 caters less well too, they'd buy the 760.

It's time everyone grew up and stopped this stupid war, thread after thread is being moderated and closed, and no-one is benefiting (I have myself been engaged in arguments on this forum) - everyone needs to step back and realise that everyone just looks a total idiot.

Huddy said everyone is behaving like children, he's actually wrong, kids are far less childish and more open minded - do we realise we're supposed to MEN???

How would the members of this forum engaged in this nonsense react to a real crisis? do you act this in front of your children?

I bet none of you don't.


Time for everyone to grow up. This isn't passion and people engaged in a hobby, this is a pathetic indictment on all involved, everyone just looks like the saddest people alive, can you imagine what a 30 year old woman reading this would think?

Get a grip, time to start getting back enjoying an interest with others of a like mind, rather than getting into ****y ego battles which show nothing whatsoever except a lack of manliness, maturity and a terrible lack of self-confidence.
 
Let me make it perfectly clear to you. This is exactly the sort of bickering which has left us no choice but to start banning users. You have been warned about this and if you want to keep access you need to start winding your neck in a bit.

Sorry Burnsy, that was in no way bickering as Layte realised just a bit of harmless banter after his little rant.

Roundabout the same price, people can argue the toss about benchies and reviews forever, the truth is they're not that far apart, if people were honest and were too take on board most reviews, we've seen reviews and benchies can be manipulated and set up to favour one card or the other.

The reality is comparing cards over two brands is not apples and apples, both have strengths in certain games and weaknesses in others. I'm starting to actually wonder whether these reviews and benchies are worth anything in reality, unless you can show clear blue water.

We've seen the endless pages of pages GPU wars and they end up being nothing more than exercises in fanboism and sophistry.

My one POV is they're very similar performing cards, there's no definitive benchmark for comparing cards either, one can find review A that favours NV, and review B than favours AMD. The whole exercise seems self-defeating with close performing cards.

All it does is boil up geek juice to ridiculous levels.

It all comes down to personal choice and what suits you in the end, my own POV is there's better value with AMD because of the free games and you do get 3GB of VRAM, now whether today that matters that much is questionable, but there's no doubt that going forward the more VRAM the better. It's a self evident truth, 3GB is better than 2GB, end of story, but there are 4GB 760'S on the way - so clearly both teams see VRAM as a selling point. With a well priced custom cooled 4GB 760 avalaible, i'd buy that.

To try and argue that one card is better than the other definitively and for everyone is absolutely stupid.

I'd buy a 7950 today out of the two, for the reasons outlined, but those reasons may be unimportant to someone else.

Bang for buck the 7950 is ahead, but for someone with a specific need that the 7950 caters less well too, they'd buy the 760.

It's time everyone grew up and stopped this stupid war, thread after thread is being moderated and closed, and no-one is benefiting (I have myself been engaged in arguments on this forum) - everyone needs to step back and realise that everyone just looks a total idiot.

Huddy said everyone is behaving like children, he's actually wrong, kids are far less childish and more open minded - do we realise we're supposed to MEN???

How would the members of this forum engaged in this nonsense react to a real crisis? do you act this in front of your children?

I bet none of you don't.


Time for everyone to grow up. This isn't passion and people engaged in a hobby, this is a pathetic indictment on all involved, everyone just looks like the saddest people alive, can you imagine what a 30 year old woman reading this would think?

Get a grip, time to start getting back enjoying an interest with others of a like mind, rather than getting into ****y ego battles which show nothing whatsoever except a lack of manliness, maturity and a terrible lack of self-confidence.

I love a good discussion over this sort of thing and this one has been conducted in the right spirit. The problem is as soon as people now start to discuss things, civilly, you get people jumping in calling people names for wanting to discuss performance which is exactly what happened in this thread.

Have we really got to the stage where we can't even discuss things now because everyone thinks that is bickering or being a fanboy? Come on now. Lets be realistic about this and keep things in perspective. As long as people respect the rules i don't see the harm in having a discussion about this.
 
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Even with the 760 prices i still believe for 230 -250 pounds the 670 is the fastest and best value card out of 670 , 760 , 7950, and even the 7970 non GE.
 
So if I'm reading the overclock table correctly (which I'm probably not:)) they have clocked the 7950 core by 200mhz and the memory by 225mhz, and the 760 core by 100mhz and the memory by 100mhz.
It helps to explain why these results are vastly different to all of the other reviews I have read.
This makes the review pretty pointless.

If you want to compare cards, compare them at stock and max overclock.

Picking a random overclock, mild or not, introduces too much bias. The OC on the 7950 is twice that of the 760.

Why he did it this way he actually explained. Its simple, use an overclock 99% of the people out there would be able to achive themselves. The reason to why the overclock is smaller on the 760 is due to the thermal thresshold on that specific card. If you factor OC into the purchase value which is the intention of the entire video, how much do you get for your money including OC that should be possible to do by most people, you will most likely see that the video is not pointless at all. Its not a hardcore benchmark test designed to push every bit of performance out of it using an extreme cooling solution nobody has access to. The 7950 has always been easy to OC and if its does a better job of it than the 760 without advanced knowledge i cannot see why it shouldnt factor into the purchase value.
 
Generally pointless doing an overclocked review as it purely depends on the 2 sample cards you have as to how well they overclock.

If you are interested in overclock results then the only place really to get the info is from a decent sample of real users in forums like this.
 
Generally pointless doing an overclocked review as it purely depends on the 2 sample cards you have as to how well they overclock.

If you are interested in overclock results then the only place really to get the info is from a decent sample of real users in forums like this.

Exactly !
I like Linus unboxing videos and most reviews, but his video card reviews I don't rely on because - when you compare hardwares performance to each other it needs to be by base clock. It may be that the GTX 760 per base clock/standard is faster than the HD7950 Boost but when overclocked the tables turn.
 
There are plenty of stock clocked comparisons out there. Personally I'm interested in a comparison at typical over clocks that are realistically achievable as that's what I'll be doing. Everyone who overclocks knows it is a lottery, that's no reason not to do a comparison though is it?
 
As he said in the video, he pretty much assumes everyone will want to overclock their card, since it's an incredibly easy thing to do and gives "free" performance.

This is a very rough comparison between several GPU's using a mild overclock. Sure there are plenty more variables to test, one card may indeed be faster depending on cooling, overclocking headroom, drivers or whatever but that's not really the point here. This is a generalised review.

With this in mind I find it quite helpful to see how these compare side by side with a mild overclock.
 
I agree Rojin it is definitely interesting to see how the cards scale with overclocks, I just don't like any review that pits 2 cards against each other to see which one wins when overclocked for the above reasons.

I doubt anyone really knows yet what a realistic overclock is for the 760.
 
As he said in the video, he pretty much assumes everyone will want to overclock their card, since it's an incredibly easy thing to do and gives "free" performance.

This is a very rough comparison between several GPU's using a mild overclock. Sure there are plenty more variables to test, one card may indeed be faster depending on cooling, overclocking headroom, drivers or whatever but that's not really the point here. This is a generalised review.

With this in mind I find it quite helpful to see how these compare side by side with a mild overclock.

I know but "assuming" isn't good enough if you want to reach out to the masses and give some credible data.

I don't overclock at all, so I actually find his video reviews quite non-saying - I can't relate to them at all..

I agree Rojin it is definitely interesting to see how the cards scale with overclocks, I just don't like any review that pits 2 cards against each other to see which one wins when overclocked for the above reasons.

I doubt anyone really knows yet what a realistic overclock is for the 760.

Yes I do agree also. Stock & overclocked tests, that's what I'd like to see.
 
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the best bang for buck card at 1080 is the 7950 boost find at cheapest price

most oc very high and it takes no skill whatsoever :p

760 isnt bad but then you have the higher oc on the boost and the game package so its a no brainer. a 7970 basically for 200 quid. nothing is close price performance.
 
A better comparison/review would be to have all the cards tested at stock as well as overclocked. Most sites tend to only OC the card being reviewed, which despite being good at showing scaling with clock speed, isn't particularly useful when comparing that to other cards. I know of only one reviewer who does that.
 
As he said in the video, he pretty much assumes everyone will want to overclock their card, since it's an incredibly easy thing to do and gives "free" performance.

This is a very rough comparison between several GPU's using a mild overclock. Sure there are plenty more variables to test, one card may indeed be faster depending on cooling, overclocking headroom, drivers or whatever but that's not really the point here. This is a generalised review.

With this in mind I find it quite helpful to see how these compare side by side with a mild overclock.

One is mildly overclocked twice as much as the other though.
 
I know but "assuming" isn't good enough if you want to reach out to the masses and give some credible data.

I don't overclock at all, so I actually find his video reviews quite non-saying - I can't relate to them at all..

That's fair enough, but there are plenty of other reviews out there that'll provide you with the performance data of stock comparison.

Very few reviews compare a range of overclocked GPUs side by side. Whether it's of benefit to everyone or just those looking to overclock it's still interesting to see :)
 
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