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review take two shot
one now if you're a regular viewer you've probably heard me say before why
are you buying a high-end graphics card if you're still connecting to your monitor via VGA I would actually go
further than that now if you're spending a few hundred on a graphics card and
you're not running at a resolution higher than 1080p you're probably doing
something wrong and you're probably misallocating your funds in some way
because monitors are so inexpensive now they've got those cheap ones on eBay you
can get IPS panels for a few hundred bucks for a 1440p display that you
should make that part of your upgrade plan in order to have a better more
immersive gaming experience the GTX 770
is a direct replacement for the 670 and comes in with a very similar spec to the
outgoing GTX 680 it's got that same full-fledged GK 104 core it's clocked
higher than the 680 by default using GPU boost 2 to achieve its its own boosted
overclocked speeds and to make it operate you know at a fixed temperature
and all the cool stuff that comes along with GPU boost 2 it has a better cooler
that looks outstanding in addition to keeping the card cool enough as well as
an updated fan profile that makes it less U Less uh liable to ramp up and
ramp down in an annoying fashion so it's got all that going for it but the big
improvement over GTX 680 for my standpoint is the 7 GHz gddr5 memory on
it so it's still using a 256bit bus but
the memory is clocked substantially higher allowing for it to perform better
particularly at higher resolutions as you are about to see now we're using our
usual standardized test bench we've got our Nel core i739 60x at 4 GHz 16 gigs
of Kingston RAM a p9x 79 Deluxe motherboard a 128 gig SSD for our boot
drive as well as the latest drivers from both the green and the red teams without
further Ado let's get into the performance
numbers Metro last Light is an unbelievably demanding game at
1440p even the GTX Titan and GTX 780 are
brought to their knees however their version of brought to knees is very
different from the rest of the cards you can see here that memory bandwidth is
king So those cards do well the GTX 770
beats the card that it's replacing as well as the card that it is very similar
to in terms of spec except for its increased memory bandwidth quite handly
in this test with both of the cards from the red team also doing phenomenally
well partly due to the fact that they have great memory bandwidth and 3 gig
memory buffers as a opposed to the 2 gig memory buffers that we see on the NVIDIA
cards that we have in this test in Tomb reader we see a hint of the things that
we saw in our 1080p performance review of this card where it looks like the GPU
boost on this particular card isn't that
competitive with the way that our 680 turns up when overclocked remember we
overclock all of our cards for our performance testing so what that
revealed was that our GTX 770 is not
necessarily faster than R 68 once both cards are overclocked to the max I'm
expecting this to change at some point with some tweaks and I mean if that's
not the case I'm expecting most 770s to
boost up higher than our particular one because remember this is a higher TDP
card which means it can is able to draw more power it has a higher stock clock
speed and it has that much faster memory to go with it with all of that said
we've got GTX Titan and gtx780 in completely their own world way at top of
the graphs then we've got a cluster of cards that are all pretty much within
margin of error of the ones on either side of them followed up by the GTX 660
Ti and the gtx670 down at the very bottom in BioShock Infinite we see
another example of GTX Titan gtx780
completely running away with it stealing the show and everything else looking
like a very sort of clustered grouping of cards once again though we see our
770 in spite of the fact that we did observe some weird ramping of the core
clock speed ahead of the GTX 680 and it
looks like remember guys at higher resolutions we're more dependent on
memory performance it looks like that memory is really helping out the card
here in Far Cry 3 same pattern those top
two cards are the top two cards and everything else is below them but we do
see the 770 pull ahead not only of the 670 in a pretty sort of impressive
fashion but we see it pull ahead of the GTX 680 as well so we can attribute this
to the improved memory band with once
again moving on to Far Cry 3 blood Dragon remember these are based on the
same engine but have very different demands on your system we see again GTX
Titan gtx780 and everything else very
very close after that with the gtx770 being the only GK 104 based card that
really separated itself in this test we did rerun these numbers and it's pretty
bizarre and we're not quite sure how we ended up with the same performance
with all three of these cards especially at such a GPU bound resolution but there
you have it the 770 was the only one that really separated
itself Crisis 3 is another game where we see the GTX 770s very incremental
improvements over the last generation GeForce cards and we see GTX Titan and
gtx780 just kind of stomping all over
everything just like they are probably going to continue to do for a while
until AMD manages to Launch launch some kind of Counterattack that can in some
way address the GTX 780 and GTX Titan so
what's the conclusion for this GTX 770
is very suitable for running at 1440p just like GTX 680 was before it except
more so it looks better it's quieter not
only is it quieter but the way the fan ramps up and down is less annoying you
get GeForce experience which allows you to keep your drivers updated as well as
gives you recommendations for your game settings which might not be relevant to
you but might be relevant to someone who you recommend a card to if you know that
they can't handle handling all that stuff on their own and it comes in at a
lower price than the GTX 680 that it is
inheriting most of its technology from but not its looks you get a card that
looks very premium sounds very premium performs very premium and is suitable
for gaming at that resolution at a price point that it wasn't available at before
so it's really hard to go wrong bear in mind guys the numbers you were looking
at in this test were based on us running at extremely high settings at that
resolution even with cards like the Titan to get really smooth playable
frame rates you'd probably end up turning things down from you know ultra
settings with anti-aliasing all over the place because it is much more demanding
on your graphics card to run at a higher resolution thank you for checking out my
1440p performance review of the GTX 770
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