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GPU Showdown where we take four different price points $100 $200 $300
and $400 all of these are sort of US Dollars and you know Canadian US pricing
is and we find out what's the best video card for you in a given price point
putting AMD and NVIDIA head tohe head at those different price segments let's
start with our test bench we've got a 3960x at 4 gigz with a Corsair h100
cooling it off 16 gigs of 1600 MHz
memory on a in the Seuss P9 x79 Deluxe motherboard our video card varies
obviously we swap them in and out depending on what we need to do and powering this whole thing is an antech
high current Pro 1,000 80 plus Platinum
power supply we also have a 128 gig boot SSD where we run all the benchmarks off
to prevent any kind of weird like loading time glitch from causing any
kinds of issues and without further Ado let's get into it methodology wise it's
pretty simple we do a two-minute run through at the beginning of the comrades
level we always run in 1080P and if you want to replicate our run through you
can check out our separate video showing exactly how we generate these results
I'd like to introduce our contenders at the approximately $100 price point we've
got this guy the 7770 at $119.99 the GTX
650 at $114.99 the gtx660 at
$229.99 the 7870 at 239 the 660 Ti at
289 the 7950 at 299 uh the GTX 670 which
is actually on the test bench over there at 369 and the 7970 at
394 now we try to get things as close as
we can we use the second lowest price point for any given GPU on NC to
determine what where these cards fall into place I mean a lot of people have
asked us where's the 680 well it's priced significantly higher than any of
the other cards so it's not there unfortunately because in some territory
7970 might be close to 680 but here it isn't really so that just leads us to
the results and this one's actually pretty close so the 7770 versus the GTX
650 the 777 7 pulls away by about 10%
but it costs about 5% more so it's pretty darn close to a tie next up we've
got our next price bracket so this one we didn't really stay that close to 200
here we got a little bit over so the GTX 660 is 230 bucks and the hd7870 was
around 240 but this is such a good value
price point that we sort of went that route anyway you're usually better off
to spend a little bit more so in this case we saw the the same thing where the
7870 pulled ahead by about 12 133% but
the 660 was a little bit less expensive so again sort of a sort of a wash if I
had to give the nod to someone it'd be to AMD on that one next up 7950 versus
660ti both of these are great overclocking cards both of these are
great value cards around the $300 price point but the nod goes to the 7950 on
this one because while it only costs about 3% % more it outperforms the 660
Ti once they're both overclocked to the max by about 10 to 12% so a significant
Victory there I guess if you would call that a significant Victory and then last
but not least 7970 versus 670 The 670
didn't perform as well as we would have liked to see and the 7970 did Beat It by
about 10% but it's about 10% more expensive so I guess that's okay then so
there you go guys it's kind of hard to go wrong this is the thing that happens
with mature drivers this is a bit of an older game so we're using release
drivers on all the cards with slightly older games and with product Stacks that
have had pricing adjusted already to compensate for all the other products
that exist in the market what you find is that they deliver performance that's
pretty much on par with what you'd expect for the price you're paying so if
you're playing Battlefield 3 go AMD go
NVIDIA it looks like it doesn't really matter cuz the game does not support
Fizz X X so you're not going to get any benefit on that side however I guess if
you were going to play in surround you may want to go AMD because I do find
Affinity provides a very good gaming experience thank you for checking out
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