Tuesday, July 9th 2013
Gigabyte Announces GeForce GTX 760 4GB WindForce OC
Gigabyte announced its premium GeForce GTX 760-based graphics card, the GV-N760OC-4GD. The card ships with 4 GB of memory (compared to 2 GB standard), and factory-overclocked speeds of 1085 MHz core, 1150 MHz GPU Boost; while keeping the memory ticking at 6.00 GHz. The card uses Gigabyte's new WindForce 450W cooling solution deployed on a number of its new GeForce 700 series products.
GV-N760OC-4GD is based on the same exact PCB as the company's GeForce GTX 770 WindForce OC, which draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and conditions it using an 8-phase VRM. The WindForce 450W cooling solution can handle thermal loads as high as 450W. It uses two aluminum fin-stacks strapped along the ends of six copper heat pipes (two 8 mm-thick, four 6 mm-thick), which are then ventilated by a trio of 80 mm fans. We expect the card to be priced around US $300.
GV-N760OC-4GD is based on the same exact PCB as the company's GeForce GTX 770 WindForce OC, which draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and conditions it using an 8-phase VRM. The WindForce 450W cooling solution can handle thermal loads as high as 450W. It uses two aluminum fin-stacks strapped along the ends of six copper heat pipes (two 8 mm-thick, four 6 mm-thick), which are then ventilated by a trio of 80 mm fans. We expect the card to be priced around US $300.
8 Comments on Gigabyte Announces GeForce GTX 760 4GB WindForce OC
Kind of fairly monumental overkill of cooling/pcb length/PEG requirements though, and I would think that will contribute to a high cost. I highly doubt nvidia will let them go over whatever 760 is rated tdp-wise which makes it questionable...granted obviously 2gb was not held back by whatever that number is (~200w like 670? 170 + ~20%?). Still, could conceivably play as an overall factor in clocks.
I agree it sounds interesting as a spec product, but question if this is the right way to go about it. Kinda makes you wonder if they overspecced it simply so they could get away with charging similar if not more than 1/2 780 and not upset the balance in the force (read: 760/770 tweener product without pissing off nvidia).
(Insert obligatory "shove it into a 32-bit OS" comment here)
Either way, would be interesting to see how this performs at resolutions of 2048x1536 and higher. Probably still a ways off from driving 3D games at 4K though.