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at 2560 by 1440 really um was an
emotional time for me because I used to run these benchmarks on my 30in Samsung
monitor which my cat destroyed several months ago so we've obtained a new
monitor which is 2560 x440 instead of 2560
x600 and we are back to the races
benchmarking graphics cards and telling you at high resolutions greater than
1080p what is the best card for your dollar or in the case of something like
a GTX Titan $1,000 now I'm going to get through this
methodology stuff as quickly as I can we use a
3960x overclock to 4 GHz cooled by an h100 we use a p9x 79 Deluxe motherboard
we use an antech high current Pro thousand wat 128 gig SSD and we use a
variety of graphics cards obviously for our testing we're running on Windows 7
and we are running the latest beta drivers for both AMD and NVIDIA we run
all graphics cards overclocked because overclocking is free I guess if your
time's not worth anything but it really doesn't take that long because all you
have to do is check out the overclocking settings we're using in the graph or
spreadsheet that's Below in the video description and that'll give you you
some idea where to start so it really shouldn't take you very long at all
we're testing our games using fraps and because we're not doing any dual GPU or
triple GPU setups it should still Fair be a fairly accurate representation of
the performance of the cards however it should be noted that particularly if
you're running SLI or Crossfire configurations it's important to use a
frame capture setup to get the most realistic possible results now all of
our games are not only being run at high resolutions but also at very high detail
settings because well the justification for it is if you're going to spend $300
on a graphics card you better be running at high details in this one we see
what's going to become a recurring theme and that is that memory bandwidth and
memory amount seem to be holding back the 660 Ti and the GTX 680 this is
something we did not observe in our 1080p benchmarks so there is a very
clear division where Titan and 780 are up here 7970 and 7950 are here and 680
and 660 Ti are trailing at the bottom
in Tomb Raider 2013 it really is men against boys with the Titan and the GTX
780 coming out on top however of course they are priced much higher than the
cards that they are now replacing from NVIDIA's own lineup and the 7950 and
7970 Metro last Light is a game that uh
actually kind of creamed all of these
cards even the GTX Titan only ran at just over 20 FPS average however I mean
okay so we learned that you need need multiple gk10 gpus in order to run this
game smoothly at 2560 x440 we also
learned that sometimes it's not feasible on current generation Hardware to turn
games up to the very maximum but with all that said we still do see a clear
difference in performance between that top tier gpus the mid- tier where those
AMD cards are benefiting from their extra memory bandwidth and extra memory
and then the older being phased out 600 series of GeForce graphics cards
I'm going to do Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 3 blood Dragon together because even
though the performance in these two games is quite different with Far Cry 3
being much more demanding due to the different graphical style the way that
the cards are segmented against each other in terms of performance is very
similar and this is one of the ones where I mean NVIDIA is quoting around a
35% Improvement on average going from a 680 to a 780 in this one we see that
figure just destroyed at 2560 X 1440 a
GTX 780 is going to give you almost double the performance of the 680 card
that it's replacing and almost double the performance of something from the
competing red team such as a 7970 it does cost significantly more
than a 7970 but there you have it if you are a Far Cry 3 afficianado Guys the 780
is worth a look see if you want to play at high
resolutions let's wrap it up with the classic but can it run Crisis 3 and the
answer is yes the gtx780 destroys its predecessor in Crisis 3 and we can
attribute this in all likelihood to the fact that it has 50% more Cuda cor 50%
wider memory bus and 50% more RAM giving
it just 50% more muscle everall it is a
true replacement for the 680 in this case and yeah again if you're a Crisis 3
lover then the 780 is definit itely
worth a look it is a significantly more
powerful GPU with its Titan DNA and
really much closer to Titan performance than anything else and of course it's
much lower price point compared to the GTX
Titan now the conclusion isn't really as cut and dried as this is the best
performing GTX numbered series card so it's pretty much the one to buy however
it's pretty clear that if you were shopping for a Titan the 780 is
definitely worth having a look at it has
most of the performance of a Titan particularly after you overclock it and
comes in at a much lower price point it's an obvious successor for the GTX
680 which looks distinctly last generation in terms of its performance
compared to the 780 but things get a little bit muddier when you consider
that something like a 7970 from the red team does offer up a lot of the
performance that you'll need to run games at medium to high settings even at
high resolutions it has three gigs of memory and because of the never settle
bundle it comes with a bunch of really cool games whereas NVIDIA cards right
now are limited to just coming with Metro last Light but then of course
there's the intangibles to weigh in such as the fact that you can actually
upgrade these gpus to multi-GPU configurations in SLI and get a tangible
noticeable performance Improvement there's the fact that they run quieter
um there's the fact that GeForce experience is going to make things a little bit more TurnKey so you don't
have to go in and tweak things and tune them and remember to download your latest drivers which honestly for most
of the people watching this video right now it's probably not a factor but if
you're recommending a card to someone who is an avid gamer but not a hardware
Enthusiast might be something to
consider so there you have it guys thank you for checking out the Linus Tech tips
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