by Sethioz » Sat Sep 07, 2013 6:08 pm
have you checked your clock speeds and anything else that effects performance, like voltage to GPU ..etc. Maybe it overclocks it in a way.
for example, my dual core CPU is not able to push my old GTX550Ti as far as my quad core did, even tho dual core only has 50% of CPU usage when GPU has 99% usage, however if i overclock the GTX550Ti, it will break the performance that it got with quad core cpu.
I tested it on EDPR (elcomsoft distriputed password recovery) and these are results:
GTX550Ti with quad core cpu = 12500p/s
GTX550Ti with dual core cpu = 11200p/s
Overclock GTX550Ti with dual core cpu = 13000p/s ( clocked from 900mhz to 1013, any higher and i had driver crashes, it recovered but broke the program using it)
obviously same base clock would give better results with quad core cpu, but my point here is that maybe it simply overclocks your 760 if you make it think its Titan.
Check with different programs to see what the clock is, make sure to check in all condition (idle, normal, under load), some video cards have dynamic clock and they change it. for example one of my GTX550Tis had automatic voltage control, if i put heavy load onto it, it went from 1v to 1.125v, which is quite a big difference for a GPU, while other stayed at 1v even under load.
I think AIDA64 is best for checking all that, set it to update every second and show all possible GPU values. (its bad for normal use, because of resource usage, normal should be no less than 3 seconds, but for testing 1s is good).
But yeah, its all about money to them, most people do not understand how computer companies SCAM money from them. There is absolutely NO difference between any of the nVidia GPUs, they're all the same really, difference is just that more you pay, faster you get, but it costs them the same to make them. developing costs too, but not THAT much. they could easily make better card than Titan is, but they just won't, because Titan is more than enough to play anything on max .. so in near future when better games come out, they can scam more money by making something more powerful and call it Colossus and say "its a breakthru!" ...while they could easily do it right now.
Cooling is issue, but not if i would have to design a cooler, i could get temps down by easy 50% or even more. I mean . why is GPU so tiny? why not spread it across the board? so if GPU is bigger, it has more surface you can mount the heatsink on, heatsink should have a lot heavier base, with MORE metal and sit all over that GPU. it would cool the shit out of it and for super performance go liquid.