NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Review: The New Enthusiast Kepler
by Ryan Smith on June 25, 2013 9:00 AM ESTHitman: Absolution
The third game in our lineup is Hitman: Absolution. The latest game in Square Enix’s stealth-action series, Hitman: Absolution is a DirectX 11 based title that though a bit heavy on the CPU, can give most GPUs a run for their money. Furthermore it has a built-in benchmark, which gives it a level of standardization that fewer and fewer benchmarks possess.
With Hitman the GTX 760 once again lags the 7950B. At 1920 with 4x MSAA this is a 13% gap, though with framerates in the 40s neither card does exceptionally well for an action game here. Even as NVIDIA’s fastest 1080p card, 1080p at High settings is a more realistic option, which pushes the GTX 760 to 70.3fps, while also closing the gap to the 7950B to just 7%.
The minimum framerates in HItman are fairly steady, so although the GTX 760 can only hit 40fps for an average, it bottoms out above 30fps. Still, it trails the 7970B by 10% at our higher 1080p settings.
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Aditya211935 - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
I guess I m a bit early.A5 - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
Looks pretty solid for the price.Samus - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
I feel like an idiot buying a 660Ti two months ago for $300. At least I got the 3GB version that'll be "somewhat" future-proof for BF4 as the maps are expected to tax 2GB cards.gamoniac - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
Don't look back. You can only make your decision based on the information you had and your needs at the time. If you could look just 2 minutes ahead, you would be a billionaire now and wouldn't be participating in this conversation.just4U - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
this is essentially a cheaper 670.. coming it at or below the price of the 660TI. I don't see your purchase as being one of those you think $*!@! over. Hah. Your card is a bit slower but not noticeably so and the added ram may benefit you down the road.Hixbot - Wednesday, June 26, 2013 - link
A cheaper, and slower 670. So not really a 670 at all.just4U - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - link
I'd agree.. although pricing here is 275-300.. Don't see any at 249. The 7950 is 300.. They will have to lower that down a tiny bit to be competitive I think, take a small hit in performance (but more ram possible benefit later?) and their games bundle the trade off for consumers should be about equal.Lovolt - Wednesday, June 26, 2013 - link
Not sure where 'here' is, but newegg has 3 models at $250 and another 6 at $260 (on June 26).just4U - Thursday, June 27, 2013 - link
Calgary Canada.. We have a newegg.ca but it's not as good as your newegg I think that's to do with taxation and not having a actual warehouse here.ericore - Tuesday, July 2, 2013 - link
No, they have warehouses in Canada; if you've ever ordered a big order you'd realize this since not everything ships at once; comes from different warehouses in Vancouver, Mississauga and several others. They charge us more because they can, but only charge more on certain items so that we can't revolt. Generally the can prices are very close to the US ones, but the odd time they are significantly more. Processing and taxes are also cheaper in the US, but we do get the crappy end of the stick at times. There was a specialty motherboard, on newegg.com this was 100, and newegg.ca this was 150; can't remember the model.