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Welcome to our Tomb Raider not the old Tomb Raider the new Tomb Raider that has

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the exact same title as the old Tomb Raider Welcome to our Tomb Raider GPU

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Showdown performance guide we are going to be taking four different price points

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and comparing cards from the Green Team

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and the red team and letting you guys know which one is the best for your

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hard-earned dollar in this particular game new Tomb Raider not old Tomb Raider

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now as always we're going to start with a look at our test bench we have a 3960x

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at 4 gz so it's it's overclocked but quite frankly a 3770k or 3570k is going

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to perform better than that once you overclock it to the max anyhow 16 gigs

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of Kingston hyperx memory and as p9x 79 Deluxe we obviously swap out the

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graphics cards we've got an antech high current Pro 1,000 wat power supply 128

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gig SSD for a boot drive and it's all cooled by a Corsair h100 now since the

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CPU is overclocked and because everyone in their dog tests graphics cards at

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their stock speeds we overclock every graphics card on our test bench because

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we think you guys should be overclocking your graphics cards too and we want to

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represent what you will be able to achieve with your card so we're going

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for Fairly realistic overclocks on our cards and you can check out The

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annotation if you want to see exactly what settings we're running so you can

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try and replicate them on your own cards we are not using the built-in Benchmark

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for Tomb Raider we are actually using a two-minute run through the same way that

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we normally do and if you want to check out our two-minute run through you can

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follow along with slicks testing methodology video which he creates every

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time we do one of these showdowns and you can Benchmark your system at gain

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stars now while we understand the importance of rating graphics cards

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based on frame times as opposed to just frame rates we don't have the equipment

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yet to do that so we're sticking with our old methodology of using fraps to

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record frame rates and Reporting the results it may not be perfect but it's

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as good as anything anyone else has been recording for the last five years anyway

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so hopefully it still gives you some guidance in terms of how these cards

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compare to each other in our $100 price range we've got the

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7770 and the GTX 650 now these cards

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were run at ultimate which is the same settings we ran everything else at and

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if you think about that for a moment $100 card versus $400 card at the same

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settings is quite possible you're going to end up with a situation where it's

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not really even playable on these cards the 7770 in particular did not perform

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very well on Ultimate however because

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the both of these cards just tanked with Tres FX on we decided to run at Ultra

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instead of ultimate just to give you guys a look at what you might actually

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be playing at so the only real difference between Ultra and ultimate is

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that Ultra does not have Tres FX which is the realistic hair simulation that's

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going on in this game the funny thing is Tres FX is an AMD technology but it

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actually runs better on the 650 than the 7770 even though even though neither of

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them are playable at all so let's move into our next price bracket which is

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about $200 so our 660 is is about 229

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and our 7870 is about 239 making them sort of closer to 250 but this is a very

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good value price point and so that's why we want to bring this up the 7870 did

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win by about 10% versus the 660

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so there you go I guess there's not really much else to say because Tomb

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Raider benchmarked very smoothly other than the hiccups that were encountered

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on the lower end with on the lower end cards where with tress FX it didn't seem

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to really want to work at all 79 50 continues to be a rockstar in our

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testing it overclocks incredibly well and particularly when it came to minimum

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frame rates versus the 660ti it performed about 50% better on minimums

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48 FPS versus 30 FPS on the 660 Ti so

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that was a bit of a trouncing because

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remember guys minimum frame rates are more important to the overall gaming

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experience than average frame rates necessarily can be in our final price

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bracket so we've gone $100 $200 $300 and

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now $400 we've got the gtx670 and the

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Radeon 7970 so it's not a gigahertz

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Edition card but quite frankly it doesn't really matter because it doesn't

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you can overclock the card yourself anyway but we see another victory for

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the red team This Time Again by about 10% and I guess it makes sense because

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this is an AMD sort of gaming evolved title they are giving it away with their

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cards in their never settle bundles or at least they have depending on when

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you're watching this video and I think that pretty much wraps it up so thank

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you for checking out this video on Tomb Raider not old Tomb Raider new Tomb

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