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click the link in the video description for more details now y'all complained
about my laboratory coat that I've done more before but I have decided to
completely change things up if you don't want to see the lab code in these videos
about graphics card showdowns then you don't have to anymore so let's get ready
to have a head-to-head showdown between the Green Team and the red team in Far
Cry 3 blood Dragon so 100 bucks 200 bucks 300 bucks and 400 bucks are the
price points that we'll be looking at to tell you what gives you the best
performance in Far Cry 3 blood
Dragon now we're done loaded up our this here test bench with that their 3960x at
4 gahz uh We've also got 16 gigs of DDR3
RAM a p9x 79 Deluxe as well as a 120 gig
boot SSD 1,000 watt antech power Supply
and this is our test bench we use for all graphics cards we've also got of
course our h100 keeping that overcloud CPU cool throughout our testing the
graphics cards as you might well imagine do vary
somewhat now for our benchmarks we use an ingame run only no pre canned
benchmarks no prefabricated numbers
nothing like that so uh you can definitely click here to check out
Slick's benchmarking guide tutorial for far Cry 3 blood Dragon and what we've
got here is as you can see eight graphics cards well 7 + 1 is eight so
we've got the 650 versus the 7770 the 660 versus the 7870 the 660 Ti versus
the 7970 and the 670 versus the 7970
which is actually over there now the reason we've gone with that is we take
the second lowest price card at nc.com and that is where we get our
price reference from if in your region the pricing is different then you'll
have to take the results with a grain of salt we overclock every card and you can
check out the overclocked video card settings that we use in our videos in
the graph that is actually in the video description and I think the only thing
left now is to find out whether these graphics cards perform or whether we're
going to have to get the performance out of these graphics
cards we usually end up going a little over $100 so the 7770 is around $10 5
and the GTX 650 is around 120 however in
spite of the only 5% price difference between these two cards the 7770
outperforms the other card by almost 30%
making it definitely the uh the better option for Far Cry 3 blood Dragon the
reason we go over on the two on the $100 price point is because you really
shouldn't be buying a card of a lower tier than about a 7770 if you want to
get good value for your dollar next up we've got the 660 versus the 7870 and
this one we had a price difference of only about 2% whereas the performance
difference was about 20% going with the 7870 versus the 660 not to mention that
if you bought a 7870 a little while ago uh that you'll be getting a copy of Far
Cry 3 blood Dragon for free in the mail anyway if you got the Far Cry 3 never
settle bundle any never settle bundle any never settle bundle excuse me the
7950 and the GTX 660 Ti are actually
very close the $950 wasn't priced as aggressively as it usually is when we do
these comparisons but we always take current pricing because we never know
what's affecting pricing Trends in the market so the price difference was about
10% and the performance difference was about 10% so these cards stacked up
pretty much exactly the same from a price to Performance ratio standpoint
670 versus 7970 now the 670 really
didn't scale beyond the 660 Ti for us which would indicate that there wasn't
much benefit to the additional memory
bandwidth as well as the other benefits that make the 670 faster so there you go
it was bottlenecked somewhere else along the line but the 7970 improves
performance a little bit over the 7950 and is able to achieve about a 177%
performance difference between it and the GTX 670 in spite of the only 6%
difference in price so that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out
our Far Cry 3 blood Dragon performance Showdown with these graphics cards uh oh
I should mention men the driver revisions we were using so we for NVIDIA
we were using 314.22 and for AMD we were using 13.4
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