Cooling, Noise, and Power

Although there might be more to the GTX 760 Hawk than just what you can see on the outside, I can’t help and think back to the amazing performance we have previously seen from the other TwinFrozr cards in the past, because of that I was excited to see how it performed compared to the other GTX 760’s that I have tested in the past. To start things off I went with the temperature testing while running Heaven Benchmark 4.0. The GTX 760 Hawk came in within a degree of the EVGA offering while the Gigabyte triple fan design did out-perform it. The reference card on the other hand was 12 degrees hotter meaning the TwinFrozr cooling did its job outperformed the stock design. Of course with a considerably higher overclock over the other 760’s the Hawk’s performance is even more impressive.

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As you will see right away the MSI GTX 760 Hawk is down near the bottom in both of our tests. I especially like the 100% load noise levels the Hawk is actually within 4 decibels of the idle noise levels on a few other cards and a well below what the Gigabyte Windforce GTX 760 did.

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With a unique PCB design and two additional PWM I was curious if it would make a big difference in power usage. I found the idle results to be spot on with the other GTX 760’s but under load the MSI GTX 760 Hawk did pull another 8 watts over what we saw with the Gigabyte card and 25 watts over the reference design! That puts it up within 11 watts of the GTX 770 cards even. I hope the overclocking and performance is worth the additional draw.

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #32037 07 Aug 2013 20:13
Today I take a look at something special from MSI, check out the GTX 760 Hawk!

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