Welcome to our Tomb Raider not the old Tomb Raider the new Tomb Raider that has
the exact same title as the old Tomb Raider Welcome to our Tomb Raider GPU
Showdown performance guide we are going to be taking four different price points
and comparing cards from the Green Team
and the red team and letting you guys know which one is the best for your
hard-earned dollar in this particular game new Tomb Raider not old Tomb Raider
now as always we're going to start with a look at our test bench we have a 3960x
at 4 gz so it's it's overclocked but quite frankly a 3770k or 3570k is going
to perform better than that once you overclock it to the max anyhow 16 gigs
of Kingston hyperx memory and as p9x 79 Deluxe we obviously swap out the
graphics cards we've got an antech high current Pro 1,000 wat power supply 128
gig SSD for a boot drive and it's all cooled by a Corsair h100 now since the
CPU is overclocked and because everyone in their dog tests graphics cards at
their stock speeds we overclock every graphics card on our test bench because
we think you guys should be overclocking your graphics cards too and we want to
represent what you will be able to achieve with your card so we're going
for Fairly realistic overclocks on our cards and you can check out The
annotation if you want to see exactly what settings we're running so you can
try and replicate them on your own cards we are not using the built-in Benchmark
for Tomb Raider we are actually using a two-minute run through the same way that
we normally do and if you want to check out our two-minute run through you can
follow along with slicks testing methodology video which he creates every
time we do one of these showdowns and you can Benchmark your system at gain
stars now while we understand the importance of rating graphics cards
based on frame times as opposed to just frame rates we don't have the equipment
yet to do that so we're sticking with our old methodology of using fraps to
record frame rates and Reporting the results it may not be perfect but it's
as good as anything anyone else has been recording for the last five years anyway
so hopefully it still gives you some guidance in terms of how these cards
compare to each other in our $100 price range we've got the
7770 and the GTX 650 now these cards
were run at ultimate which is the same settings we ran everything else at and
if you think about that for a moment $100 card versus $400 card at the same
settings is quite possible you're going to end up with a situation where it's
not really even playable on these cards the 7770 in particular did not perform
very well on Ultimate however because
the both of these cards just tanked with Tres FX on we decided to run at Ultra
instead of ultimate just to give you guys a look at what you might actually
be playing at so the only real difference between Ultra and ultimate is
that Ultra does not have Tres FX which is the realistic hair simulation that's
going on in this game the funny thing is Tres FX is an AMD technology but it
actually runs better on the 650 than the 7770 even though even though neither of
them are playable at all so let's move into our next price bracket which is
about $200 so our 660 is is about 229
and our 7870 is about 239 making them sort of closer to 250 but this is a very
good value price point and so that's why we want to bring this up the 7870 did
win by about 10% versus the 660
so there you go I guess there's not really much else to say because Tomb
Raider benchmarked very smoothly other than the hiccups that were encountered
on the lower end with on the lower end cards where with tress FX it didn't seem
to really want to work at all 79 50 continues to be a rockstar in our
testing it overclocks incredibly well and particularly when it came to minimum
frame rates versus the 660ti it performed about 50% better on minimums
48 FPS versus 30 FPS on the 660 Ti so
that was a bit of a trouncing because
remember guys minimum frame rates are more important to the overall gaming
experience than average frame rates necessarily can be in our final price
bracket so we've gone $100 $200 $300 and
now $400 we've got the gtx670 and the
Radeon 7970 so it's not a gigahertz
Edition card but quite frankly it doesn't really matter because it doesn't
you can overclock the card yourself anyway but we see another victory for
the red team This Time Again by about 10% and I guess it makes sense because
this is an AMD sort of gaming evolved title they are giving it away with their
cards in their never settle bundles or at least they have depending on when
you're watching this video and I think that pretty much wraps it up so thank
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