After the launch of the Titan, Nvidia wanted to also cover the other performance segments and eventually to replace some of the older generation products. In one of our previous reviews we have taken a look at the GTX 780 card from Gigabyte which featured overclocking from the factory and succeeded to render impressive performances.
After the GeForce GTX 770, which shares a lot with the previous GTX 680 but with higher memory frequencies, Nvidia has placed another member at a noticeably lower price point, the GTX 760.
This chip is also based on the 28nm GK104, but features only six out of eight SMs (streaming multiprocessors) and this result in a total of 1152 unified shaders along with 96 TMUs. The chip also features a 256-bit wide memory interface along with 32 ROPs.
As we have found on the GTX 780, this GPU also features Boost 2.0 technology, which dynamically overclocks depending on temperature, current load and power. 3rd party manufacturers have concentrated on delivering efficient cooling systems in order to eliminate the temperature as a factor which restricts boost clocks, but also to be able to overclock even further.
When looking at the beefy cooling InnoVISION have implemented on the iChill version of the card, we thought right away that this version should be overclocked from the factory and we were right. The card comes with a GPU clock of 1056MHz vs 980MHz on the stock Nvidia version and the boost goes up to 1124MHz.