MSI R9 280 Gaming v PNY GTX760 XLR8 – £185 shootout

Gold lettering on a black box. Not wonderfully creative but effective enough.

The bundle includes a software disc, video converter cable and some literature.


The PNY GTX760 XLR8 is built using the reference cooler with a gold PNY sticker on the front. The PCB is black and rather small with part of the cooler actually extending the overall length.

The card takes power from two 6 pin PCIe connectors.

The card is fully SLi capable, as shown above.

The PNY GTX760 XLR8 backplate has two DVI connectors, alongside a full sized HDMI and DisplayPort connector.

An overview of the PNY GTX760 XLR8. The GK104 core is built on the 28nm process. The core is clocked at 980mhz, with a boost speed set to 1,033mhz. The card has 32 ROP's, 96 texture units and 1,152 CUDA cores. The 2GB of Hynix GDDR5 memory is clocked at 1,500mhz (6Gbps effective).

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