NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Mainstream GPU Review

Name: EVGA GeForce GTX 760 with ACX Cooling
Brand: EVGA

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 09:00 AM EDT

Hitman: Absolution

DirectX 11 Gaming Performance

Hitman: Absolution

Hitman: Absolution follows Agent 47, a cold-blooded assassin, who takes on his most dangerous contract to date. Betrayed by those he once trusted - and now hunted by the police - he suddenly finds himself at the center of a dark conspiracy and must embark on a personal journey through a corrupt and twisted world. We tested the game at multiple resolutions, with all in-game options set to their maximum values and global illumination and 4X anti-aliasing enabled.

Hitman Absolution was a clear win for the Radeon HD 7950. In this game, the new GeForce GTX 760 cards outrun the 660 Ti and 7870, but Radeon HD 7950 hung with GeForce GTX 770.

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Though they obviously offered different levels of performance, all of the cards we tested consistently delivered frames to the screen in Hitman, according to FCAT.

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As we've seen almost everywhere else, the Radeon HD 7950 CrossFire setup exhibited major swings in frametime in the Hitman Absolution benchmark, and is far less consistent than the GeForce GTX SLI configurations when delivering frames to the screen.

Tags: Nvidia, GeForce, Gaming, graphics, GPU, evga, GTX, dx11, ACX, 760

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com