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

Updated: June 25, 2013

Conclusion and Final Thoughts

I have to say right off the bat in my conclusion that I was very impressed with how well this card did in gaming, especially in the higher 2560X1440 resolutions where the card was not even really aimed to be played at.

We all know that at 1920X1080 is where this card is targeted at and for the price range it does one hell of a bang up job playing all the latest titles with ease and many of them at their highest setting as well.

NVIDIA wants to stay very competitive as seen by this release and its price point of $249.00. The GeForce GTX 670 can be used either for SOHO productivity or gaming and is an all around well-rounded solution that offers better performance in Adobe applications due to its CUDA core technology that accelerates the performance in many software programs.

The reference card was almost silent even when playing games and the cooling ramped up as the card compensated for the heat so the acoustic aspect of the reference card is solid in that department as well as having lower power requirements, but it ran at max of 81 Celsius.

The MSI Twin Frozr card also runs very silent and had a much better GPU Boost as at stock setting we saw a maximum of 61 Celsius in temperature and with 100MHz Boost we saw a max temperature of 66 Celsius, which leaves plenty of headroom for much father overclocking.

BecauseGPU Boost 2.0 goes by the GPU temperature the better the cooling the better the Boost and from that we saw a maximum Boost clock speed of 1241MHz. MSI has done an excellent job with their Twin Frozr cooling solution that offers a minimum of nearly 20% better cooling than the stock cooling of the reference designed card.

For those gamers who need to stay in the under $300.00 price range the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 is a very interesting product to put in your minds eye as it offers solid gaming at 1080p resolutions as well as accelerated performance in video editing, and other applications that many use in their daily life.

MSI has taken an already robust design found in the GTX 760 and taken it to the next level by adding the Twin Frozr cooling solution that works much better than your reference designed cards by quite a margin. Using higher than spec parts and designing their own cooling worked out very well for MSI as the card gives overclockers chance to push the card far beyond what the card comes shipped already at 1020Mhz with Boost of 1085MHz (Reference Card Is Clocked at 980MHZ W/Boost at 1033MHZ).

The new GeForce GTX 760 is really just replacing the 660 Ti, but at $50-$60 cheaper and a bit faster overall as was to be anticipated and if you are not really interested in serious overclocking a reference card may do you fine, for others there are cards like the Twin Frozr Gamin Edition card that is well worth the small price difference in my eyes. At the end of the testing week, the GeForce GTX 760 reference wins a Top Value Award and the MSI Twin Frozr wins an Editor’s Choice for its design, overclocking headroom and cool running capabilities.