Review: Nvidia GeForce GTX 760

Conclusion

Nvidia has introduced the GeForce GTX 760 GPU to provide the best gaming performance at £200 or so. Entirely based on the GK104 architecture that powers presently-available GTX 680/670 and 660 Ti GPUs, this 'new' card tinkers with the Kepler die and massages it into a graphics processor that's very similar to what we've seen before.

Remonstrations about model numbering aside, GTX 760 provides very solid competition to the Radeon HD 7950, but we can't help but feel that Nvidia has already trodden this ground with the GTX 660 Ti last August; the GTX 760/660 Ti use differing implementations of the Kepler design but largely achieve the same kind of performance.

It will only be once we've seen a number of factory-overclocked partner cards (and their associated pricing) before we can paint a well-informed picture on just how good GTX 760 is. For the time being, with the reference card in mind, Nvidia hasn't made the year-on-year gains that we had expected.

Nvidia tells us the GTX 760 is the last 7-series update until much later on this year, and we sincerely hope that the next raft of new cards, based on the Maxwell architecture, herald game-changing performance.

Bottom line: As a card that's similar to incumbent GTX 660 Ti in pricing and performance, Nvidia's partners are going to have to do a sterling job in convincing users to spend £200-plus on the GTX 760.

The Good

Solid gaming performance at 1080p
Can be made into a smaller card

The Bad

An older architecture for a bump in nomenclature

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