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GPU Showdown where we take four different price points $100 $200 $300

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and $400 all of these are sort of US Dollars and you know Canadian US pricing

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is and we find out what's the best video card for you in a given price point

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putting AMD and NVIDIA head tohe head at those different price segments let's

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start with our test bench we've got a 3960x at 4 gigz with a Corsair h100

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cooling it off 16 gigs of 1600 MHz

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memory on a in the Seuss P9 x79 Deluxe motherboard our video card varies

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obviously we swap them in and out depending on what we need to do and powering this whole thing is an antech

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high current Pro 1,000 80 plus Platinum

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power supply we also have a 128 gig boot SSD where we run all the benchmarks off

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to prevent any kind of weird like loading time glitch from causing any

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kinds of issues and without further Ado let's get into it methodology wise it's

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pretty simple we do a two-minute run through at the beginning of the comrades

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level we always run in 1080P and if you want to replicate our run through you

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can check out our separate video showing exactly how we generate these results

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I'd like to introduce our contenders at the approximately $100 price point we've

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got this guy the 7770 at $119.99 the GTX

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650 at $114.99 the gtx660 at

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$229.99 the 7870 at 239 the 660 Ti at

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289 the 7950 at 299 uh the GTX 670 which

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is actually on the test bench over there at 369 and the 7970 at

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394 now we try to get things as close as

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we can we use the second lowest price point for any given GPU on NC to

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determine what where these cards fall into place I mean a lot of people have

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asked us where's the 680 well it's priced significantly higher than any of

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the other cards so it's not there unfortunately because in some territory

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7970 might be close to 680 but here it isn't really so that just leads us to

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the results and this one's actually pretty close so the 7770 versus the GTX

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650 the 777 7 pulls away by about 10%

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but it costs about 5% more so it's pretty darn close to a tie next up we've

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got our next price bracket so this one we didn't really stay that close to 200

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here we got a little bit over so the GTX 660 is 230 bucks and the hd7870 was

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around 240 but this is such a good value

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price point that we sort of went that route anyway you're usually better off

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to spend a little bit more so in this case we saw the the same thing where the

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7870 pulled ahead by about 12 133% but

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the 660 was a little bit less expensive so again sort of a sort of a wash if I

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had to give the nod to someone it'd be to AMD on that one next up 7950 versus

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660ti both of these are great overclocking cards both of these are

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great value cards around the $300 price point but the nod goes to the 7950 on

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this one because while it only costs about 3% % more it outperforms the 660

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Ti once they're both overclocked to the max by about 10 to 12% so a significant

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Victory there I guess if you would call that a significant Victory and then last

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but not least 7970 versus 670 The 670

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didn't perform as well as we would have liked to see and the 7970 did Beat It by

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about 10% but it's about 10% more expensive so I guess that's okay then so

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there you go guys it's kind of hard to go wrong this is the thing that happens

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with mature drivers this is a bit of an older game so we're using release

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drivers on all the cards with slightly older games and with product Stacks that

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have had pricing adjusted already to compensate for all the other products

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that exist in the market what you find is that they deliver performance that's

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pretty much on par with what you'd expect for the price you're paying so if

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you're playing Battlefield 3 go AMD go

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NVIDIA it looks like it doesn't really matter cuz the game does not support

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Fizz X X so you're not going to get any benefit on that side however I guess if

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you were going to play in surround you may want to go AMD because I do find

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Affinity provides a very good gaming experience thank you for checking out

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