The following tests were all reproducible or scripted benchmarks as opposed to freeform gameplay that can be more subjective.
3DMark 11
| MSI 760 HAWK (out of the box) |
MSI 760 HAWK (OC @ 1293MHz) |
Gigabyte GTX580 | Gigabyte GTX 670 OC (out of the box) |
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| P Score | 8094 | 8920 | 6574 | 9177 |
| Combined Score | 6980 | 9557 | 6973 | 7709 |
| Physics Score | 7702 | 7473 | 7372 | 7784 |
| Graphics Score | 8358 | 9518 | 6388 | 9776 |
Unigine Heaven
Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0 Basic is one of the programs that we run to temperature test the cards and we also do a benchmark run during the process.
| MSI 760 HAWK (out of the box) |
MSI 760 HAWK (OC @ 1293MHz) |
Gigabyte GTX580 | Gigabyte GTX 670 OC (out of the box) |
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| Score | 993 | 1109 | 899 | 1123 |
| Min FPS | 20.5 | 25.9 | 19.8 | 22.3 |
| Max FPS | 93.6 | 105.5 | 87.5 | 104.3 |
| Avg FPS | 39.4 | 44 | 35.7 | 44.6 |
Tomb Raider
For the in-game benchmarking utility, the following graphics settings were used
1920×1080, Motion Blur:On, Screen Effects:On, Quality: Ultimate,Texture Quality: Ultra,Texture Filter: Anisotropic 16X, Hair Quality: TRESSFX, Anti-Aliasing: FXAA Shadows: Normal, Shadow Resolution: High, Level of Detail: Ultra, Reflections: High, Depth of Field: Ultra, SSAO: Ultra, Post Processing: On, Tessellation: On, High Precision: On
Although TRESSFX is an AMD feature we had it enabled because gamers will want to enjoy it in this title and we have other benchmarks so it all evens out in the end.
| MSI 760 HAWK (out of the box) |
MSI 760 HAWK (OC @ 1293MHz) |
Gigabyte GTX580 | Gigabyte GTX 670 OC (out of the box) |
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| Min | 24.4 | 24.5 | 29.1 | 24.5 |
| Max | 50.5 | 50.5 | 50 | 52 |
| Avg | 40.1 | 43.6 | 39 | 43.7 |
Batman Arkham City
The settings used for the Arkham City ingame benchmark were:
1920×1080, V-Sync: Off, Anti-Aliasing: FXAA (High), Directx 11 Features: MVSS and HBAO, Dx11 Tessellation: Normal, Detail Level: Very High Dynamic Shadows: Yes, Motion Blur: Yes, Distortion: Yes, Lens Flares: Yes, Light Shafts: Yes, Reflections: Yes, Ambient Occlusion: Yes, Hardware Accelerated PhysX: Normal
| MSI 760 HAWK (out of the box) |
MSI 760 HAWK (OC @ 1293MHz) |
Gigabyte GTX580 | Gigabyte GTX 670 OC (out of the box) |
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| Min | 49 | 56 | 25 | 50 |
| Max | 131 | 135 | 114 | 141 |
| Avg | 90 | 96 | 58 | 98 |
Hitman Absolution
The following settings were used in the ingame benchmark:
1920×1080, MSAA:8x, Vsync: Off, Quality Setting: Ultra
| MSI 760 HAWK (out of the box) |
MSI 760 HAWK (OC @ 1293MHz) |
Gigabyte GTX580 | Gigabyte GTX 670 OC (out of the box) |
|
| Min | 16 | 22 | 21.3 | 20.6 |
| Max | 30 | 33 | 31 | 28 |
| Avg | 23 | 26 | 25 | 26.3 |
Metro 2033
The benchmarking scripter for Metro 2033 was set using the following options
1920×1080, DX11, Quality: Very High, AA: MSAA 4X, Texture Filtering: AF 16X, Advanced PhysX: Disabled, Tessellation: Enabled, DOF: Enabled
| MSI 760 HAWK (out of the box) |
MSI 760 HAWK (OC @ 1293MHz) |
Gigabyte GTX580 | Gigabyte GTX 670 OC (out of the box) |
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| Min | 9 | 10 | 5.75 | 9.22 |
| Max | 51 | 60 | 50 | 64.69 |
| Avg | 32 | 37 | 29 | 31 |
As you can see, the results with the factory overclock generally have the HAWK somewhere in between a stock GTX580 and the previous generation GTX670 but when overclocked further manually, the 760 HAWK runs toe-to-toe with the GTX670.
