14 DAY TRIAL // The GeForce GTX 760 and GTX 770 graphics cards from NVIDIA are not the best video boards that NVIDIA has to offer, but they are still quite powerful, which is why adding the “Gamer” moniker to their names is a bit redundant.
Then again, Galaxy, like every other company in the world, needs an easy way to make its product stand apart from all others.
Moreover, the word “Gamer” has been used as a “label of excellence” for many years now, decades even, so Galaxy is really only doing what has already been proven to work.
So what did the company do, exactly? It released a pair of NVIDIA GeForce 700-Series video cards, specifically the GeForce GTX 760 Gamer, and the GeForce GTX 770 Gamer.
They have the “standard” perks compared to the reference models, namely higher clock speeds for the GPUs and custom coolers.
The GeForce GTX 760 Games is supposed to have a factory overclock of 5% or so, which implies a base core clock of 1030 MHz and a boost clock of 1080 MHz.
The reference specifications are of 980 MHz and 1033 MHz, respectively, in case you were wondering about the exact difference (as exact as we can guess it from the rather vague source anyway).
The GeForce GTX 770 Gamers is a bit more iffy, probably overclocked by the same amount, meaning that the card operates at 1100 MHz and 1140 MHz, or thereabouts.
Or the card could be overclocked by 10%, suggesting base and GPU Boost frequencies of 1150 MHz and 1193 MHz, respectively.
We can't really be sure of the numbers, because the only source of information we have found is written in Chinese, and doesn't seem to include the clocks anyway.
Which brings us to the main problem: the Galaxy GeForce GTX 760 Gamer and GTX 770 Gamer are only available in Greater China, and might take a long time to reach the rest of the world, if they expand their availability at all.
Then again, restricting the availability would be a waste, even though China does contain the vast majority of the world's population already.
Anyway, the two newcomers both have 7-phase VRMs (voltage regulation modules), two PCI Express power inputs (one 6-pin port and one 8-pin), dual-slot coolers (aluminum fin stacks and two 80 mm fans each) and the same overall PCB (printed circuit board). It remains to be seen if the odd read, black and blue color scheme helps.
