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

Before bringing this article to a close, we'd like to cover a few final data points--namely, power consumption, temperatures, and noise. Throughout all of our benchmarking and testing, we monitored acoustics and tracked how much power our test system was consuming using a power meter. Our goal was to give you an idea of how much power each configuration used while idling and also while under a heavy workload. Please keep in mind that we were testing total system power consumption at the outlet here, not just the power being drawn by the graphics cards alone.

Total System Power Consumption

Tested at the Outlet

The GeForce GTX 760's power consumption fell right in-line with expectations. All of the cards consumed similar power while idling at the Windows Desktop, but under load, the GeForce GTX 760's power consumption fell somewhere in between the GeForce GTX 660 Ti and Radeon HD 7950.

Temperatures and noise are non-issues with the GeForce GTX 760. Like other cards with GPU Boost 2.0, the GeForce GTX 760's GPU temperature will peak at whatever temperature is set in driver--in this case 80'C. And though the card's fan does spin up under load, it never gets anywhere near what we'd consider noisy. The EVGA GeForce GTX 760 SC w/ ACX cooling, however, clearly offered better cooling performance than NVIDIA's reference model, and it remained quiet throughout testing as well.

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