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First impressions of the Asus ROG Striker Platinum GTX760 are positive. The gatefold box presentation ensures the key selling points are highlighted immediately, including a focus on the sophisticated cooling system and high grade Japanese Nichicon GT capacitors.
As is befitting of a Republic Of Gamers product, the build quality is first rate. The card is hefty and we love the angular, menacing two tone cooler design featuring a high grade PCB backplate.
Additionally, Asus have adopted CoolTech Fan Technology – a hybrid design which offers dust proofing. The hybrid blades and bearing design, with inner radial blower and outer flower type blades provides multi directional airflow.
In real world terms, the ROG Striker Platinum GTX760 isn't the quietest performance solution we have tested, but the dual fan system does generate high levels of airflow, ensuring complete stability under the most demanding of situations.
We achieved an additional 8% software overclock in our SLi tests, although one of the cards did exhibit more headroom potential (10.5%), indicating the ‘luck of the draw' lottery when buying a new graphics card – they all overclock to slightly different levels.
The ROG Striker Platinum GTX760 features a useful onboard LED lighting system which immediately indicates the state of the GPU core – green for idle, yellow for medium load, and red for heavy load. If you have a windowed case, this is an eye catching feature and certainly a talking point with friends.
Running in Sli, these ROG Striker Platinum GTX760 graphics cards are capable of generating solid frame rates at 4K resolution, able to outperform a reference clocked GTX780Ti, and often able to match some of the fastest GTX780ti's you can buy today.
The ASUS Striker Platinum GTX760 each cost £239.99 inc vat from Overclockers UK. As tested in SLi today, this would be a total cost of £480 inc vat. When you factor in that the current pricing for a GTX780Ti is still between £550 and £610 inc vat, the GTX760's have a lot to offer. It is also worth pointing out that each of these GTX760 cards has 4GB of GDDR5 memory which is actually more than the 3GB limitation currently imposed by Nvidia on the GTX780Ti. If 3GB isn't enough then you need to buy one of the new 6GB GTX780's, or a 6GB GTX Titan Black.
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Pros:
- 4GB of GDDR5 per card.
- built with the highest grade components.
- fantastic looking solution.
- clocks well.
- cost effective solution for Ultra HD 4k gaming.
Cons:
- One of the most expensive GTX760's.
Kitguru says: Well engineered, high performance GTX760 and capable in SLi of trading blows with the fastest GTX780 Ti's that money can buy.
I know they have less memory on board, but how would a couple of 3GB R9 280x’s in crossfire fare against these?
How come the 6GB 780 is thrashing the 780TI’s in the Ungine benchmarks? Surely they don’t require that much ram?
Oh I see, it’s 2 in SLI.