nag magazine south africa 2014-05 [page 88]
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88 May 2014 www.nag.co.za
hardware / review
EVGA GTX 760 Dual Superclocked
In the highly-contested mid-range video
card market, the GTX 760 sits quite
comfortably. It’s not untouchable by any
means, but you’re certainly assured of a
level of quality for your money, and that
goes a long way.
EVGA builds on that solid foundation
with this SC (Superclocked) version,
which includes the now staple dual fan
system; EVGA’s own arrangement goes
by the name of Active Cooling Xtreme,
and certainly does a good job of keeping
things under wraps even during intense
gaming sessions.
As this is a factory-overclocked
version of the GTX 760, core speeds
come in a little nippier than standard
980MHz, measuring 1,072 (boosted to
1,137 at peak load), although all GTX 760s
across EVGA’s range run the standard
memory speed of 1,502 MHz (6,008
effective). Thankfully, with this powerful
yet impressively quiet cooling system
you get plenty of room to stretch your
CORE
MEMORY
SPECS
2,048MB GDDR5 6GHz (192.2GB/sec)
RENDER OUTPUTS / TEXTURE UNITS 32 / 96
CUDA CORES 1,152
1,072MHz
DirectX 11.2 / OpenGL 4.3 / CUDAAPI
Website / www.kairaglobal.co.za ERP / R3,999 Supplier / Kaira Global
overclocking legs. On our test unit,
we managed to push the core clock
speed up to 1,222MHz (boost 1,287)
and the memory speed nudged along
another 170MHz to a total of 1,672 (6,688
effective). All-in-all this proved to boost
performance by a decent margin, pulling
in an additional five frames-per-second
in Hitman while GPU core temperature
peaked at a respectable 78°C.
EVGA’s range of GTX 760s is quite
vast, and this particular offering sits right
in the middle with its 2GB of RAM and
decent out-of-the-box overclock. That
also has the effect of placing this card
in an interesting price bracket, which I
believe positions it as the best value-for-
money in this range. For an extra R800 or
so you could jump up to the 4GB version,
but then you’re playing in 2GB GTX
770 range which would be a no-brainer
purchase at that price. As a result, this
2GB card is the one to get.
- Geoff Burrows
Asolid cardonlyheldbackby its
lackof4GBofVRAM,but for the
price this is the topNVIDIAcard
youcanbuy.
PLUS/Goodperformance /Temperatures stay
low/Decentbit of overclockingheadroom
MINUS/LimitedVRAM/Toughcompetition
fromAMDat this pricepoint
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B E N C H M A R KR E S U LT S
3DMark Fire Strike: 5,875
Catzilla 1080p: 8,649
Hitman: Absolution (DX11 ultra detail)
4xAA: 66 fps
WHAT’S IN THE BOX?Included in the package is an EVGA-
branded backplate for the GTX 760. Why
it isn’t fixed to the card to begin with is
anyone’s guess, but it looks rather nice
and provides passive cooling for the rear-
mounted Hynix RAM chips.
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