Is that enough of a benefit for you to pay the extra cost over the reference design card? The benefit of the Gigabyte Overclock Edition then is the fact you can be reasonably confident you'll still be hitting those heights a year or so down the line, with the GPU itself consistently remaining much cooler, and quieter too. That said, the fact it offers a thermal delta of over 20degreesC means that the card will happily remain at its overclocked state without over-stressing the GPU or your ear-drums. Out of the box the Gigabyte Overclock edition is certainly faster, cooler and quieter than the reference edition from Nvidia, but it doesn't necessarily offer a huge amount of extra gaming performance for the amount of extra cash you'll be forking out for this card. Yes, that's a huge boost to the base clock, and gives fantastic benchmark results, but the reference card is as capable of hitting those clocks as well. We could only garner a GPU offset of +75MHz to the base clock, though that did have the GPU wavering between 1,215MHz and 1,228MHz. Sadly, that cooling doesn't seem to equate to higher clockspeeds when it comes to any extra overclocking. In fact, running Heaven we actually saw the boost clock going up to 1,150MHz. The standard base clock comes in at 1,006MHz with a boost clock of 1,058MHz, while this Gigabyte card starts at 1,071 with a 1,136 boost clock.
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The reference board can hit up to around 88☌ when under full gaming load this OC edition barely gets above 60☌.Īll that, with higher clockspeeds out of the box than the reference editions. We can say for certain that Gigabyte's Windforce GPU cooler, combined with that extra copper in the PCB, makes for one seriously chilled graphics card. The extra copper is responsible for some extra cooling too. That also means that this overclocked card will require a beefier PSU too.Īs well as that, Gigabyte is using its Ultra Durable tech, which uses high-end components and a hefty 2oz of copper in the circuit board.
That means the card can draw a lot more power up to 300W compared to the 225W maximum of the reference design. Gigabyte has redesigned the PCB to its own specifications and the most obvious change being the addition of an 8-pin PCIe power connector in place of the piggy-back twin 6-pin design of the reference card. Inside we had just the card in some protective foam and with some protective plastic on the outer shroud.While the GPU cooler obviously has a massive effect on the performance of a card, it's not the only thing that has a bearing on it.
We received a dedicated review sample so it has none of the retail packaging and accessories.
Right away then we should expect the WindForce GTX 760 OC graphics card to be around 10-15% faster than a reference GTX 760 meaning it will be much faster than the current Nvidia GTX 670 and maybe even GTX 680.īelow you can see how our Gigabyte GTX 760 WindForce OC 2GB graphics card arrived. The memory has been left untouched at the stock 1502MHz actual, 6008MHz effective speed. By my calculations that’s a 10.8% overclock on the GPU core clock and an 11.3% overclock on the GPU boost clock. The core clock has been raised from 980MHz to 1085MHz while the boost clock has been increased from 1033MHz to 1150MHz. Gigabyte have wasted no time in giving this GTX 760 a hefty dollop of extra performance as they have raised both the core clock and GPU boost clock. It uses a trio of 80mm fans to help keep this graphics card running cool and quiet. The GTX 760 WindForce OC 2GB graphics card we have here today is using Gigabyte’s WindForce 3X cooler capable of handling thermal loads of up to 450W. Today we’ve got another enthusiast grade overclocked GTX 760 from Gigabyte. At eTeknix we’ve only managed to review one GTX 760 so far and that was the rather epic KFA2 GTX 760 EX OC 2GB graphics card. Nvidia’s GTX 760 has been out now for quite a while and we’ve seen a whole variety of models hit the market.
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