MSI GeForce GTX 760 Gaming review - Article

MSI GeForce GTX 760 Gaming Edition armed with TwinFrozr IV cooler

In this article slash review the MSI GeForce GTX 760 Gaming edition, this particular model comes with a dual-slot two fan TwinFrozr IV cooling solution. That boils down to a VERY silent product versus and more than excellent cooling performance. MSI offers the card factory slightly overclocked at some pretty impressive clock frequencies. Join us in this review and let's see if the 259 USD Gaming edition model will be worth it for you.

The GeForce GTX 760 is a re-spin product, meaning NVIDIA took an older GPU, rebadged it, tweaked some parameters and injects it back into the market at better price-point. You might like that, or not. But the fact remains that the GeForce GTX 760 is to be considered a mainstream to high-end product, yet comes at a competitive price with the very same chip used in the GeForce GTX 670 and GTX 680. And that a year ago, where the second and top high-end graphics cards. As such the card remains very interesting  in terms of performance though. See the GK104 GPU itself being used will have two shader cluster disabled. This gives the GK104 GPU 1152 CUDA cores to work with, with in total, 96 texture and 32 raster operating units. The GPU being used is actually tagged as GK104-225 A2. The graphics card also has slightly slower clock frequencies than big daddy GTX 680. However the GTX 760 comes with a Boost clock which is set at 1033 MHz. The core clock frequency (for the reference products) is 980 MHz with the 256-bit DDR5 memory clocking in at 6008 MHz.

With a TDP at roughly 170 Watts the card won't draw too much power either, but it surely packs power, it is silent and the GPU core temperatures remain completely under control. Boardf partners will be free to launch their own SKUs, all pimped  and beefed up, and that's where we start the next chapter.

Meet the red themed MSI GeForce GTX 760 Gaming edition, the new gaming series graphics cards was obviously released to mix and match gaming series motherboards. This particular model graphics card comes with small factory overclock and their latest revision TwinFrozr IV cooler. That makes it a chunk faster, alongside a clock frequency increase it will be priced aggressively. Overall the card is sitting roughly at GeForce GTX 670 performance. This is the 2GB edition that comes factory clocked for you at whopping 1022 MHz with a Boost clock of 1085 MHz. The GTX 760 series memory clock has been set at an effective data-rate of 6008 MHz. We test the product with the hottest games like Metro: Last Light, Battlefield 3, Sleeping Dogs, Far Cry 3, Medal of Honor Warfighter, Hitman Absolution and many more. 

Have a peek at the most silent yet best cooled product right we have tested, and then next page please.