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at 2560 by 1440 really um was an

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emotional time for me because I used to run these benchmarks on my 30in Samsung

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monitor which my cat destroyed several months ago so we've obtained a new

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monitor which is 2560 x440 instead of 2560

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x600 and we are back to the races

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benchmarking graphics cards and telling you at high resolutions greater than

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1080p what is the best card for your dollar or in the case of something like

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a GTX Titan $1,000 now I'm going to get through this

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methodology stuff as quickly as I can we use a

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3960x overclock to 4 GHz cooled by an h100 we use a p9x 79 Deluxe motherboard

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we use an antech high current Pro thousand wat 128 gig SSD and we use a

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variety of graphics cards obviously for our testing we're running on Windows 7

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and we are running the latest beta drivers for both AMD and NVIDIA we run

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all graphics cards overclocked because overclocking is free I guess if your

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time's not worth anything but it really doesn't take that long because all you

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have to do is check out the overclocking settings we're using in the graph or

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spreadsheet that's Below in the video description and that'll give you you

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some idea where to start so it really shouldn't take you very long at all

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we're testing our games using fraps and because we're not doing any dual GPU or

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triple GPU setups it should still Fair be a fairly accurate representation of

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the performance of the cards however it should be noted that particularly if

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you're running SLI or Crossfire configurations it's important to use a

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frame capture setup to get the most realistic possible results now all of

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our games are not only being run at high resolutions but also at very high detail

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settings because well the justification for it is if you're going to spend $300

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on a graphics card you better be running at high details in this one we see

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what's going to become a recurring theme and that is that memory bandwidth and

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memory amount seem to be holding back the 660 Ti and the GTX 680 this is

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something we did not observe in our 1080p benchmarks so there is a very

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clear division where Titan and 780 are up here 7970 and 7950 are here and 680

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and 660 Ti are trailing at the bottom

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in Tomb Raider 2013 it really is men against boys with the Titan and the GTX

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780 coming out on top however of course they are priced much higher than the

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cards that they are now replacing from NVIDIA's own lineup and the 7950 and

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7970 Metro last Light is a game that uh

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actually kind of creamed all of these

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cards even the GTX Titan only ran at just over 20 FPS average however I mean

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okay so we learned that you need need multiple gk10 gpus in order to run this

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game smoothly at 2560 x440 we also

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learned that sometimes it's not feasible on current generation Hardware to turn

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games up to the very maximum but with all that said we still do see a clear

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difference in performance between that top tier gpus the mid- tier where those

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AMD cards are benefiting from their extra memory bandwidth and extra memory

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and then the older being phased out 600 series of GeForce graphics cards

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I'm going to do Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 3 blood Dragon together because even

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though the performance in these two games is quite different with Far Cry 3

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being much more demanding due to the different graphical style the way that

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the cards are segmented against each other in terms of performance is very

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similar and this is one of the ones where I mean NVIDIA is quoting around a

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35% Improvement on average going from a 680 to a 780 in this one we see that

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figure just destroyed at 2560 X 1440 a

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GTX 780 is going to give you almost double the performance of the 680 card

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that it's replacing and almost double the performance of something from the

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competing red team such as a 7970 it does cost significantly more

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than a 7970 but there you have it if you are a Far Cry 3 afficianado Guys the 780

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is worth a look see if you want to play at high

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resolutions let's wrap it up with the classic but can it run Crisis 3 and the

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answer is yes the gtx780 destroys its predecessor in Crisis 3 and we can

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attribute this in all likelihood to the fact that it has 50% more Cuda cor 50%

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wider memory bus and 50% more RAM giving

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it just 50% more muscle everall it is a

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true replacement for the 680 in this case and yeah again if you're a Crisis 3

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lover then the 780 is definit itely

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worth a look it is a significantly more

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powerful GPU with its Titan DNA and

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really much closer to Titan performance than anything else and of course it's

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much lower price point compared to the GTX

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Titan now the conclusion isn't really as cut and dried as this is the best

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performing GTX numbered series card so it's pretty much the one to buy however

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it's pretty clear that if you were shopping for a Titan the 780 is

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definitely worth having a look at it has

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most of the performance of a Titan particularly after you overclock it and

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comes in at a much lower price point it's an obvious successor for the GTX

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680 which looks distinctly last generation in terms of its performance

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compared to the 780 but things get a little bit muddier when you consider

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that something like a 7970 from the red team does offer up a lot of the

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performance that you'll need to run games at medium to high settings even at

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high resolutions it has three gigs of memory and because of the never settle

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bundle it comes with a bunch of really cool games whereas NVIDIA cards right

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now are limited to just coming with Metro last Light but then of course

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there's the intangibles to weigh in such as the fact that you can actually

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upgrade these gpus to multi-GPU configurations in SLI and get a tangible

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noticeable performance Improvement there's the fact that they run quieter

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um there's the fact that GeForce experience is going to make things a little bit more TurnKey so you don't

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have to go in and tweak things and tune them and remember to download your latest drivers which honestly for most

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of the people watching this video right now it's probably not a factor but if

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you're recommending a card to someone who is an avid gamer but not a hardware

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Enthusiast might be something to

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consider so there you have it guys thank you for checking out the Linus Tech tips

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