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The new $250 GTX 760, Shaking things up a bit?
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Author:  Refuge88 [ 25 Jun 2013, 15:25 ]
Post subject:  The new $250 GTX 760, Shaking things up a bit?
nVidia has announced their "Final card in the 700 lineup" the GTX 760 which is available now for $250.00, now this is interesting.

So far the benchmarks are showing it performing stronger than the elder 660 TI variant, and even trading blows with the 670 and coming up on the curtails of the 770 (With healthy overclock).

This has me thinking of many possibilities for a budget multi monitor rig. at $250, its affordable for anyone who thinks that looking at three monitors is required for gaming. With the physical throughput when overclocked coming up to play on the bumper of a 770 when overclocked, and with the 256-bit memory interface and 4g variants. I think that this would be a solid preformer for someone on a budget.

You won't game maxed settings at 5640, but I can see medium settings on mainstream titles which on that resolution would still look mindblowing.

It also leaves you with a solid upgrade path, get a second card when you can and then you are set until you upgrade to a 980.

What are all of your thoughts on this? I think this is a very well priced card, and I'm happy to finally see nVidia coming back down to earth after their 600 series launch...

Check it out!

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7103/nvidia-geforce-gtx-760-review
Author:  Haldi [ 26 Jun 2013, 02:56 ]
Post subject:  Re: The new $250 GTX 760, Shaking things up a bit?
just another GK104 chip.... booring. Nvidia 700er series is so sad for tech enthusiasts.....
And i have realy bad feeling about AMD's 8000er .... :crazy:
Author:  Oraijon [ 26 Jun 2013, 12:43 ]
Post subject:  Re: The new $250 GTX 760, Shaking things up a bit?
It's a nice little card, but i still feel a 7950 would be the better choice for triple screen resolutions. What little i can find quickly seems to confirm that it's a wonderful card for 1080p considering the price, but on triple wide it falls a little short compared to a 7950. Especially if you can get one of the Gaming Evolved bundles with it.

For example: http://nl.hardware.info/reviews/4524/nv ... e-midrange
Written in Dutch but you can click through the 5760x1080 links at the bottom.

Not to mention the overclock potential on a 7950 and the 2 GB ram @ 256 bit vs 3 GB ram @ 384 bit memory. I think the former will start to fall short pretty soon (i was borderlining the vram limit on my own machine when i still had gtx 670's in sli).

Of course it also depends on the games you play, but overall, for a budget eyefinity/surround rig i would still take a 7950 over a 760.
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