MSI GTX 760 HAWK 2 GB Review

Name: MSI GTX 760 HAWK 2 GB
Brand: MSI

W1zzard

on Aug 20th, 2013,

in Graphics Cards.

Manufacturer: MSI

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Temperatures

Temperatures are great and fan noise is low. MSI made the right choices with their cooler and its fan settings.

GPU Temperature Comparison
	Idle	Load
MSI GTX 760 HAWK	33°C	74°C
MSI GTX 760 Gaming	29°C	69°C
NVIDIA GTX 760	36°C	82°C
Gigabyte GTX 760 OC	36°C	68°C
Palit GTX 760 JetStream	35°C	73°C
EVGA GTX 760 SC	33°C	72°C
ASUS GTX 760 DC II OC	29°C	68°C

Important: GPU temperature will vary depending on clock speed, voltage settings,
cooler design, and production variances. This table just serves to provide
a list of typical temperatures for similar cards determined during TPU review.

Clock Profiles

Modern graphics cards have several clock profiles that are selected to balance power draw and performance requirements.

The following table lists the clock settings for important performance scenarios and the GPU voltage we measured. We performed the measurement on the pins of a coil or a capacitor near the GPU voltage regulator.

	GPU Clock	Memory Clock	GPU Voltage (measured)
Desktop	135 MHz	162 MHz	0.85 V
Multi-Monitor	135 MHz	162 MHz	0.85 V
Blu-ray Playback	135 MHz	162 MHz	0.85 V
3D Load	1110 - 1280 MHz	1502 MHz	1.050 - 1.200 V

The card uses NVIDIA's dynamic overclocking mechanism which will dynamically adjust clock and voltage based on render load, temperature, and other factors.

For the graph below, we recorded all GPU clock and GPU voltage combinations of our 1920x1080 resolution benchmarking suite. The plotted points are transparent, which allows them to add up to indicate more often used values. A light color means the clock/voltage combination is rarely used and a dark color means it's active a lot.