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more welcome to graphics card dinner
theater with your host lonus the tech
tips guy this video is all about the graphics
card that looks exactly like the other graphics cards this is the GeForce GTX
770 from NVIDIA and as you may or may not have noticed based on looking at it
or based on what I just said it looks pretty much identical to the GTX Titan
and the GTX 780 however that is pretty
much where the similarities end in terms of performance because this graphics
card is based on the GK 104 GPU the same
GPU that the GTX 670 and 680 were based
on now hold on before you go Linus hold on stop that means that it's a rebadge
it is sort of a rebadge but it is an enhanced rebadge it is an updated
graphics card so what they've done is they've taken a full fledged gk104 GPU
just like you find on the GTX 680 paired
that with 7 gigabit per second so 7 GHz
gddr5 memory so faster memory and then
they've added some new technology GPU Boost 2.0 the updated cooler as you've
already seen as well as their new fan
profile that makes the card quieter while running cool due to GPU boost 2
now that's all fine and good but you kind of go well lonus it looks really
expensive how much does it cost uh actually less than a GTX 680 used to
this is coming in to fill the Gap that GTX 670 is leaving behind because that
card will be going away to be replaced by the GTX
770 without further Ado let's get into the performance we're using our standard
test bench you can check out the specs on the slide that's in front of me right
now we're using the latest beta drivers from both the red team and the green
team as well as EVGA Precision for all
of our GeForce overclocking and MSI After Burner for all of our radon
overclocking the reason for that is we found that Precision when we started our
testing at least had better support for GPU core offsets now speaking of GPU
core offsets this graphics card uses GPU boost 2 which means that overclocking is
a little bit different if you check out my GTX Titan overclocking guide you will
know how to overclock the GTX 770 we run
all of our cards overclocked and I think what you're going to see is we had a bit
of an anomaly that I believe will be
smoothed out very very quickly but what
you're going to see in our performance testing is that the 770 really didn't
separate itself from the GTX 680 in fact
it fell behind in some of our tests which was confusing until we looked into
how our GPU boost 2 was behaving and it looks like on this particular card it
wasn't boosting up very high remember guys GPU boost is a variable thing one
card May boost up more than another and the spec is based on typical GPU boost
so it looks like once overclocked R 680
had a very favorable core clock whereas our 770 was not boosting up as much or
as consistently in spite of the fact that they were being run in a room with
the same temperatures so your mileage may vary here but without further Ado
let's get into the games Metro last Light is our first game
up and you can tell where the performance comes from in this game it
comes from memory bandwidth the top two cards are GTX Titan and GTX 780 and they
are so far ahead of everything else about 30% faster than anything else that
is even trying to run this game next you've got the GTX 770 remember that 7
GHz gddr5 that's making a difference in
spite of its 256bit memory bus it still pulls ahead by an ever so small Edge
against the 7970 and 7950 from AMD and
then if you look at the 680 670 and 660
Ti they really fall behind because they're not using the same Advanced
memory that you find on the 770 in Tomb Raider we once again see GTX
Titan and gtx780 just run away with it
then we we see a clustering of cards that's all pretty much within margin of
error our 680s in there our 770s in there our 797s in there our 7950 is in
there and only the 670 and the 660 Ti
really fall behind in this particular Benchmark in Crisis 3 we're going to see
that same pattern again with the Titan the 780 and then everything else except
the 660 Ti where we really see it fall behind compared to the other cards this
is uh becoming a bit of a pattern here and and uh it's probably going to
continue in BioShock Infinite same story
guys so we see the GTX Titan and GTX 780
really run away with this one with a very tight clustering of pretty much
everything else behind them with the 660ti bringing up the rear again due to
its more cut down design compared to the
670s and 680 and 770 which are all very
similar specs at this point in time with the 7 7 having the best spec but once
again having that anomaly that we've observed with our particular card
running GPU boost once again in Far Cry
3 we see the Titan and the GTX 780
really run away with it and everything else is very very tightly packed within
about a 10% spread after that with the GTX 660 Ti really falling away bearing
in mind of course that a 660 Ti is significantly less expensive than most
of the other cards that are in in that sarda that top
tier I'm going to combine this last graph with my conclusion because I think
this graph pretty much sums it up GTX Titan and GTX 780 are here everything
else is here so the GTX 770 is a very evolutionary step forward in terms of
performance yes it performs better than a 670 yes it's less expensive than a 680
it looks better it has a more updated feature set NVIDIA's rolled out GeForce
experience which updates your drivers for you as well as gives you recommendations for how to run your
games these are all fantastic things
that are good it has an illuminated GeForce GTX logo on the top which I
can't get over and I love makes your system look awesome it makes you feel
good about the purchase it feels solid you know metal aluminum crafted thing
like it's really really nice
however the GTX 780 is the one that
really looks like the compelling value to me
because even though it's extremely expensive we're talking about you know
well over $500 graphics card that's the
one where you're getting nearly that Titan performance which is the cream of
the crop when it comes to a single GPU nothing touches it I mean you've seen
from these graphs nothing's even close except the gtx780 and the gtx780 costs
significantly less than a GTX Titan so
would I go for the GTX 770 or would I
Pony up for a GTX 780 I think I would personally probably
save my pennies and go for the 780 I wouldn't jump all the way up to the
Titan because you can see for that extra money you're spending you're not getting
that much more of a performance increase but that's that sweet spot right there
that the 780 hits then if I didn't get a 780 I might run around and look for
maybe a hot deal on a 670 or a 660 Ti
that's quite overclockable or something along those lines if I didn't want spend
that much and save myself a few bucks so the 770 will come into its own I think
once those older cards are cleared out because there's always clearance hot
deals when a new generation of cards comes in and I think that pretty much
wraps it up thank you for checking out my 1080p performance review of the GTX
770 don't forget to check out my unboxing as well as my 1440p performance
review because I think you guys will be surprised at how that extra memory
bandwidth helps this card when you're running at higher resolutions don't
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