NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB Review Feat. MSI Twin Frozr Gaming Edition

Updated: June 25, 2013

GPU Boost 2.0 and Overclocking

For the reference card, we were only able to get the Boost speeds that were available at the temperatures that the card ran at. GPU Boost 2.0 works differently than the 1.0 solution does as GPU Boost 1.0 works off a power target that is limited when compared to 2.0 that uses the cards GPU temp to determine the Boost capability.

The reference card ran between 75-81 Celsius locking at the Boost clock of 1033MHz. Being that the reference card is a plug it in and forget about it solution the Boost clock although modest is still pretty fair.

The MSI Twin Frozr Gaming Edition card however has a much better cooling solution that keeps the card running much cooler in all circumstances and showed between 18-20% better cooling than the reference card. The card comes overclocked out of the box, but we were able to increase the card by 100MHz and get an easy better overclock than the reference card by quite a decent margin and being able to obtain a Boost clock of 1241MHz with temps only at 66 Celsius leaving a lot of additional headroom to push the MSI card much further before getting into dangerous temperature zones.

MSI also has their patented and very well loved After Burner overclocking software GUI that allows real time adjustments to the different aspects of the card. Things such as voltage as well as fan rotation speeds plus clock and memory parameters can all be adjusted within the After Burner GUI. We left everything, but the core clock speed at its default state and only increased the core clock by 100MHz for a very quick down and dirty overclock. With the MSI card running as cool as it did with a little more tinkering I am sure much better results could be obtained by someone really wanting to push the envelope. I will increase the voltage and see how far the card will go in another article, for now the results looked pretty damn good.