NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Review: GTX 700 Hits the Mainstream

Battlefield 3 is a rare treat when it comes to PC gaming. Rather than develop the game for the consoles first and then port over to the PC, DICE built the game with the PC in mind from the get-go. It’s graphically one of the most impressive games ever created, so it’s of little surprise that it finds itself in our testing.

Manual Run-through: Operation Guillotine (chapter 5) is the basis for our benchmarking here, as it features a lot of smoke, water, debris and is reliable to benchmark repeatedly. Our run starts us at the top of a hill, where we immediately rise up and run down it. We make our way down to the riverbed below, and end our run once we hit the first set of stairs.

The results so far for the GTX 760 are impressive, especially when you compare them to the GTX 680 which cost exactly twice as much when it launched last spring. 66 FPS at 1080p and 45 FPS at 3×1 3 megapixel (at ultra detail, no less) is quite impressive for a $250 graphics card.

DiRT: Showdown

For so many reasons, the DiRT series is one of the best out there for racing fans. Each game offers outstanding graphics and audio, excellent control and environments that are way too much fun to tear up. Showdown is an interesting beast, as it features destructive racing, but as we discovered in our review, it too is a ton of fun.

Manual Run-through: In our search for the perfect Showdown track to test with, we found that any of the snow levels offered the greatest stress on a GPU. The specific track we chose is the second race in the second tier, taking place in Colorado. We begin our FPS recording as soon as the countdown to the race begins, and end it as soon as we hit the finish line at the end of the three-lap race.

Things looked good in Battlefield 3, but I’d argue DiRT: Showdown makes the GTX 760 look even better. At our mammoth resolution of 5760×1080, we managed the game without dipping below 35 FPS. If your target resolution is 1080p, you can rest assured that this game is going to run brilliantly.