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760 Windforce vs 770 Windforce

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I'm solely using Techpowerup reviews to determine if the 770 is worth the extra $150.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GeForce_GTX_760_WindForce_OC/18.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GeForce_GTX_770_WindForce_OC/18.html

After comparing most of the games, the highest FPS increase I've seen is from Bioshock Infinite, 25FPS (and sometimes only a gain of 2-5FPS). All other games, I've seen no more than a 12FPS increase.

Aside from FPS, is there any other edge that the 770 WF will bring if I spend the extra $150 on it?

Thanks!
 
I say get the 760 because it's a good price for the amount of performance, opening up a SLI possibility in the near future but also (and, more likely) being less costly to replace when the next die shrink and/or architecture comes out since we're currently on the "tock," so to speak.

Plus, if you don't need more, why get more? Buy a nice bottle of wine or beer if that's your thing. :)
 
Greetings

tangokilla said:
After comparing most of the games, the highest FPS increase I've seen is from Bioshock Infinite, 25FPS (and sometimes only a gain of 2-5FPS). All other games, I've seen no more than a 12FPS increase.
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I faced a similar situation when the 660Ti, 670 and 680 were only available and the $AUD pricing was approx $315, $430 and $590 back then, but the differences between the cards was only about 10%-15% between the 660Ti and 670 and also about 10%-15% difference between the 670 and 680, so the more you paid then comparitively the less you got.

Since I originally wanted about 130% the performance of a 680 I decided to go with two 660Ti's in SLI. You have a similar situation but the prices are even more severe as $250 vs $400. I would say that if you are considering spending $400 on the 770 that you then find an extra $100 and buy two $250 760's and SLI them.

Read here for 760 SLI results first

The only fly in the ointment is that scaling is not always linear, since I'm primarily interested in BF3 (and later BF4) then you will go from 76.5 fps to 147.4 fps in SLI with the 760's (almost 100% increase!), you however, provided a graph for Hitman Absolution, I don't know whether you actually are interested in playing that particular game or its just the example you provided but either way you can see that in this particular case SLI doesn't scale as well 50.2 fps vs 64.7 fps, then again it could just be a crap game with more than one video card. Crysis 2 is 61.3 fps vs 93.6 fps, on average you get about a 50% boost in FPS, shooters tend to get closer to the 100% mark.

tangokilla said:
Aside from FPS, is there any other edge that the 770 WF will bring if I spend the extra $150 on it?
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Not really, in the old days the weaker cards tended to drop off in performance when you used to crank up the resolution or quality settings, but these days they more or less keep up unless you go to something like 5760 x 1080 in which case you notice it then, but if you going to be playing at that sort of res. then you wouldn't be SLI'ing mid range cards anyway in the first place.

Cheers
 
Thanks to both of ya for the responses.

@hobart: I was thinking the exact same thing with the SLI situation. I've seen the SLI results and they are insane!

I'm definitely gonna go with the 760 but keep room for future SLI. Hopefully there will be a price drop when Q4 rolls around.

Thanks again for your response, very insightful!
 
NVIDIA has many GPU based on the same chip, that offer incrementally more performance for the price asked:
660Ti<760<670<680<770

Gaming at 1080p i would say that even a 660Ti is enough, but there are situations where i could recommend another cards:
For a small system/lan box i like the 670, plenty of performance for low power demands

Nothing beats tri-sli 4GB 770 pricexperformance for triple monitor builds.

There is an argument in favor of the looks of a 770 with the reference sexy titan cooler.

Going single monitor, even at 1600p, i would assume that CF 7950 or SLI 760 are much better than a titan, and 770 is indeed overpriced when compared against CF 7950 or SLI 760.

After AMD framepacer driver, NVIDIA can not keep the 760 priced above the 7950, a card faster and now just as suitable for multiGPU builds.
 
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