Conclusion

...the last of the Kepler bunch - GTX 760 - has, in our estimation, become the best-performing card available for £200.

Not a great deal of magic went into the production of the GeForce GTX 760. Nvidia's chopping and changing of a previous-generation core isn't going to capture the imagination, but, credit where it's due; taking the GTX 670, disabling an SMX, increasing clock speeds and throwing in a pinch of GPU Boost 2.0 has had the desired effect.

Having already captured the high-end market with the impressive GTX Titan and GTX 780 GeForce cards, the last of the Kepler bunch - GTX 760 - has, in our estimation, become the best-performing card available for £200.

Opportunity beckons and Nvidia's add-in-board partners have been quick off the mark with a wide range of custom-cooled and factory-overclocked GTX 760s that offer a worthwhile upgrade path for gamers with cards that are two or three generations old.

Proving once again that a gamer-grade card can be enhanced with a little customisation, EVGA's Superclocked ACX is able to deliver excellent performance and quality cooling in a tidy package priced competitively at £220. There's no shortage of competition between GTX 760 manufacturers, but if you're in the market for a high-performance card that won't break the bank, the GTX 760 Superclocked ACX more than fits the bill.

The Good

Comfortably faster than reference
Keeps suitably cool under load
Lots of overclocking headroom

The Bad

Stock-clocked memory
Not the quietest GTX 760

HEXUS Awards

EVGA GeForce GTX 760 Superclocked ACX

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I want one of these. Fact.

Also, your review has it priced at £228 from Scan, yet the Scan website has “Call For Price” as it's currently not stocked… Is this price confirmed?

th3_f15t
Also, your review has it priced at £228 from Scan, yet the Scan website has “Call For Price” as it's currently not stocked… Is this price confirmed?

It's actually cheaper on amazon at £220.

And I just bought one so hopefully it will work well with the 2560x1440 monitor I bought at the same time.

th3_f15t
Also, your review has it priced at £228 from Scan, yet the Scan website has “Call For Price” as it's currently not stocked… Is this price confirmed?

I'd guess this is the price they most likely will sell it at, being partners with Hexus, but maybe the supplier hasn't finalized that price and it *might* change, so Scan are simply covering themselves.

On this card side, I'm glad to see it doesn't beat the 670 all that much/at all - i bought 1 i Jan, a second in March, both were £330 at the time…Although it stings to see a card performing the same for £100/card less, it's not so bad as it's a good 6 months later.

I've always gone the SLI route rather than 1 high end card, always works out cheaper, but my last lot was dual 460s, and while they were cheaper yet more powerful than a 580, them not being top end meant needed replacing sooner than I would have liked.

I used to play at 1200p, now at 1080p (I'll take 40“ gaming over 26” any day of the week, soon to be upgrading to 55") and while the dual 670s cruise through anything, there's certain parts (far cry 3, if I looked at a bird for instance) where the frame rate would plummet…I always wondered if this would happen with 1 ultra high end (780 for instance) because after checking GPU-Z (I keep it running all the time monitoring both cards, I'm super-weird about knowing I'm getting the right bang for my buck…what can I say I'm a cheapskate haha) and during certain instances the cards would spaz out and I would get low FPS for a few seconds..an absolutely minor issue, but an issue none-the-less - when you pay nearly £700 for graphics you expect perfection when you're only playing at 1080p ha.

The cooler is outmatched by Gigabyte's. Don't get me wrong, looks a good card, and EVGA are grand on the customer service front, but I expected better temps when this was first announced.