ASUS ROG Striker GTX 760 Platinum - Performance Test
Introduction
NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 760 2GB is one of the best-selling graphics cards today. It has proven to be a great card for those who are playing games at full-HD (1920x1080) resolution as it is relatively affordable and can be easily found for around RM 800. Recently, graphics card manufacturers including ASUS have begun offering 4GB variant of this popular card for an extra RM 200 over the price of a GTX 760 with 2GB of memory.
Last week, ASUS has proudly released their new Republic of Gamers (ROG) family member, the ROG Striker GTX 760 Platinum graphics card, featuring a fully customized PCB with a beefy 4GB GDDR5 memory, an exclusive DirectCU II cooling solution, a huge factory overclocked GPU, Super Alloy Power technology, black metallic capacitors and DIGI+ VRM digital power delivery design to pursuit for a great overclocking potential.
Today, we will be looking at what is so special about this graphics card and also investigate if the extra VRAM is something useful that is worth the extra money or just a marketing gimmick.
Product Link: http://ift.tt/1gXBV2K
Suggested Retail Price: RM 1,239
Specifications
GPU-Z Information
The ASUS ROG Striker GTX 760 Platinum is a factory overclocked card, it is specified to run at a base clock of 1085 MHz, a boost clock of 1150 MHz and the 4GB of GDDR5 memory operates at 1502 MHz or 6008 MHz effective. In comparison, a reference GeForce GTX 760 2GB runs at 980 MHz of base clock, 1033 MHz boost and 1502 MHz on the memory. This means that the Striker GTX 760 Platinum has around 11% overclock on the base clock, so by rights you should be getting a nice performance boost as compared to other models that are running at reference clocks.
Unboxing
The ASUS retail packaging for the Striker GTX 760 Platinum is pretty plain on the front, featuring ROG design with the tag line of "Accelerate Your Game”.
The back of the retail box shows a break down diagram of the card, full specifications and the video display outputs.
Flipping open the lid of the box you will find even more details out about the key features of this graphics card. Here ASUS explains that this card should be 10% faster than reference design of GeForce GTX 760, cooler than reference card thanks to the DirectCU II cooler and CoolTech technology, how robust the DIGI+ VRM & Super Alloy Power design is and how the card has the Color-coded Load Indicator to indicate the GPU load status.
Measuring 11.3” x 6” x 1.6", the Striker GTX 760 packs a pair of 90 mm silent fans in which one of the fans has a unique CoolTech design, which carries hybrid blade and bearing. This fan is capable of providing a multi-directional flow, to dissipate the heat efficiently.
The NVIDIA's GK104 GPU chip sits at the middle of the graphics card. It comes with a total of 1152 of CUDA cores, 32 ROPs, 96 TMUs, and a 256-bit memory bus.
The custom PCB features DIGI+ VRM power design with 8-phase Super Alloy Power’s Japanese-made Nichicon GT-series 10K Black Metallic Capacitors, and POSCAP that can handle up to 125°C of VRM temperature.
ASUS is using the Hynix-AFR GDDR5 memory ICs, which overclock better than the Elpida chips.
The graphics card draws power an 8-pin and a 6-pin power connector.
The ASUS ROG Striker GTX 760 Platinum supports 3-way SLI with a pair of SLI connectors along the top of the PCB for multi-GPU systems.
The ROG Color-coded Load Indicator offers an instant and easy-to-understand display of current GPU activity. If the backlight turns red, this means the Striker GTX 760 Platinum is under heavy load, whereas blue means light loading and orange indicates medium loading. However, our review sample was not a perfect card in which its backlight didn’t turn to red under heavy load.
There’s a unique red LED lining on its PCB near the power connectors. The red backlight will lit when the graphics card is running.
The ASUS ROG Striker GTX 760 Platinum has a total of four display connectors. You have dual-link DVI-I, dual-link DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs.
The black anodized aluminum backplate’s helps to protect some of the components on the rear of the graphics card.
The DirectCU II cooler offers a massive radiator, which is connected with three direct-contact copper heat pipes measuring 10 mm in diameter. The Vapor Chamber technology will dissipate heat effectively and efficiently.
The accessories provided in the retail box are quite standard. You get a dual 6-pin PCIe to 8-pin PCie Y-adapters, a flexible ROG SLI cable, a quick setup guide and the driver/ utility disk.
Test Setup
Testing Methodology
The Intel Core i7 4770K processor was overclocked to 4.625 GHz while all the graphics cards used were operating at stock clocks and stock cooler on air cooling. The room temperature was around 29°C throughout the benchmarks.
The settings for in-game benchmarks are listed in the table above.
Software & Tools
ASUS GPU Tweak - an overclocking tool with GPU and memory tuning, overvolting, GPU load-line calibration and VRM frequency tuning, allowing for the most extensive control and adjustment parameters for maximum overclocking potential.
ASUS GPU Tweak Streaming - allows you to share on-screen action in real-time. Add scrolling text, pictures, and webcam images to the streaming window easily.
Introduction
NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 760 2GB is one of the best-selling graphics cards today. It has proven to be a great card for those who are playing games at full-HD (1920x1080) resolution as it is relatively affordable and can be easily found for around RM 800. Recently, graphics card manufacturers including ASUS have begun offering 4GB variant of this popular card for an extra RM 200 over the price of a GTX 760 with 2GB of memory.
Last week, ASUS has proudly released their new Republic of Gamers (ROG) family member, the ROG Striker GTX 760 Platinum graphics card, featuring a fully customized PCB with a beefy 4GB GDDR5 memory, an exclusive DirectCU II cooling solution, a huge factory overclocked GPU, Super Alloy Power technology, black metallic capacitors and DIGI+ VRM digital power delivery design to pursuit for a great overclocking potential.
Today, we will be looking at what is so special about this graphics card and also investigate if the extra VRAM is something useful that is worth the extra money or just a marketing gimmick.
Product Link: http://ift.tt/1gXBV2K
Suggested Retail Price: RM 1,239
Specifications
GPU-Z Information
The ASUS ROG Striker GTX 760 Platinum is a factory overclocked card, it is specified to run at a base clock of 1085 MHz, a boost clock of 1150 MHz and the 4GB of GDDR5 memory operates at 1502 MHz or 6008 MHz effective. In comparison, a reference GeForce GTX 760 2GB runs at 980 MHz of base clock, 1033 MHz boost and 1502 MHz on the memory. This means that the Striker GTX 760 Platinum has around 11% overclock on the base clock, so by rights you should be getting a nice performance boost as compared to other models that are running at reference clocks.
Unboxing
The ASUS retail packaging for the Striker GTX 760 Platinum is pretty plain on the front, featuring ROG design with the tag line of "Accelerate Your Game”.
The back of the retail box shows a break down diagram of the card, full specifications and the video display outputs.
Flipping open the lid of the box you will find even more details out about the key features of this graphics card. Here ASUS explains that this card should be 10% faster than reference design of GeForce GTX 760, cooler than reference card thanks to the DirectCU II cooler and CoolTech technology, how robust the DIGI+ VRM & Super Alloy Power design is and how the card has the Color-coded Load Indicator to indicate the GPU load status.
Measuring 11.3” x 6” x 1.6", the Striker GTX 760 packs a pair of 90 mm silent fans in which one of the fans has a unique CoolTech design, which carries hybrid blade and bearing. This fan is capable of providing a multi-directional flow, to dissipate the heat efficiently.
The NVIDIA's GK104 GPU chip sits at the middle of the graphics card. It comes with a total of 1152 of CUDA cores, 32 ROPs, 96 TMUs, and a 256-bit memory bus.
The custom PCB features DIGI+ VRM power design with 8-phase Super Alloy Power’s Japanese-made Nichicon GT-series 10K Black Metallic Capacitors, and POSCAP that can handle up to 125°C of VRM temperature.
ASUS is using the Hynix-AFR GDDR5 memory ICs, which overclock better than the Elpida chips.
The graphics card draws power an 8-pin and a 6-pin power connector.
The ASUS ROG Striker GTX 760 Platinum supports 3-way SLI with a pair of SLI connectors along the top of the PCB for multi-GPU systems.
The ROG Color-coded Load Indicator offers an instant and easy-to-understand display of current GPU activity. If the backlight turns red, this means the Striker GTX 760 Platinum is under heavy load, whereas blue means light loading and orange indicates medium loading. However, our review sample was not a perfect card in which its backlight didn’t turn to red under heavy load.
There’s a unique red LED lining on its PCB near the power connectors. The red backlight will lit when the graphics card is running.
The ASUS ROG Striker GTX 760 Platinum has a total of four display connectors. You have dual-link DVI-I, dual-link DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs.
The black anodized aluminum backplate’s helps to protect some of the components on the rear of the graphics card.
The DirectCU II cooler offers a massive radiator, which is connected with three direct-contact copper heat pipes measuring 10 mm in diameter. The Vapor Chamber technology will dissipate heat effectively and efficiently.
The accessories provided in the retail box are quite standard. You get a dual 6-pin PCIe to 8-pin PCie Y-adapters, a flexible ROG SLI cable, a quick setup guide and the driver/ utility disk.
Test Setup
Testing Methodology
The Intel Core i7 4770K processor was overclocked to 4.625 GHz while all the graphics cards used were operating at stock clocks and stock cooler on air cooling. The room temperature was around 29°C throughout the benchmarks.
The settings for in-game benchmarks are listed in the table above.
Software & Tools
ASUS GPU Tweak - an overclocking tool with GPU and memory tuning, overvolting, GPU load-line calibration and VRM frequency tuning, allowing for the most extensive control and adjustment parameters for maximum overclocking potential.
ASUS GPU Tweak Streaming - allows you to share on-screen action in real-time. Add scrolling text, pictures, and webcam images to the streaming window easily.
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