ASUS ROG Striker Platinum GTX 760 4GB SLI Review

Final Thoughts

Pricing (accurate at the time of writing)

The ASUS GTX 760 Striker Platinum retails for $299.99 at Newegg and $299.99 at Amazon in North America. In the UK it costs £229.99 at Amazon and £230 at Scan Computers. The product is offered with a 3 year warranty.

Overview 

It is interesting to see a graphics card vendor take a fairly mid-range GPU and do something special with it. Aside from the ASUS GTX 760 Mars dual-GPU graphics card the last time I can personally remember another vendor apart from ASUS doing something fun with a mid-range GPU was EVGA when they released their dual GTX 560 Ti EVGA 2Win. The ASUS GTX 760 Striker Platinum is actually a very nice graphics card, sure it is priced on-par with cheaper GTX 770s and most R9 280Xs but ASUS ROG products were never meant to be price to performance kings. What the GTX 760 Striker Platinum does offer is an absolutely stunning looking graphics card that performs really well for a GTX 760, although we’ve mainly tested these cards with SLI in mind. As an SLI pairing the ASUS GTX 760 Striker Platinums consistently matched the Gigabyte GTX 780 Ti GHz Edition graphics card that costs more than 20% extra. It also manages to run slightly cooler and quieter (under realistic gaming loads, see Unigine results) which is even more impressive when you consider SLI configurations are normally hot and noisy, there was only a single slot space between these two cards and yet they kept cool and quiet – that is testament to the quality of the cooling solution ASUS have designed. As we haven’t tested these cards individually, it’s difficult to comment on their merits as individual cards, but if you’re in the market for a GTX 780 Ti you may well be wise to consider the ASUS GTX 760 Striker Platinums in SLI.

Pros

• Stunning aesthetics
• Great SLI performance
• LED lighting effects
• Backplate
• SLI Cheaper than a GTX 780Ti but performs similar
• 4GB frame buffer

Cons

• Expensive
• Higher power consumption than single GPU rival

“Pairing up two GTX 760s in SLI to match a GTX 780 Ti might sound like a bit of a bonkers idea but with the ASUS GTX 760 Striker Platinums it is a real possibility as these aren’t just “any old” GTX 760s. They come with excellent out-of-the-box performance, doubled up video memory, an excellent cooling solution and all the bells and whistles of the ROG series on the power delivery side. Oh, I almost forgot to mention they are cheaper too! “

Thank you to ASUS for providing this review sample.