{"video_id":"Nr77JW2pH90","title":"The Crew Video Card Showdown","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2015-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":295,"segments":[{"start_s":0.04,"end_s":6.0,"text":"the crew is an Ubisoft title so naturally I expect it to barely run at","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.919,"end_s":10.679,"text":"all and have a ton of issues right off the bat spoiler alert at least in my","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.48,"end_s":15.16,"text":"testing it was totally stable on all single card configurations that I ran","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.48,"end_s":20.48,"text":"but I think Linus is planning to do a test for our upcoming dual 980 versus","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.439,"end_s":23.119,"text":"Triple 970 SLI so down so stay","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.48,"end_s":23.119,"text":"subscribed for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":27.279,"end_s":33.36,"text":"that 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ugly","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":277.96,"end_s":285.49,"text":"Christmas sweater which has something to do with Harry Potter um anyways thanks","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":282.56,"end_s":295.949,"text":"for watching I'll see you next time","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"the crew is an Ubisoft title so naturally I expect it to barely run at all and have a ton of issues right off the bat spoiler alert at least in my testing it was totally stable on all single card configurations that I ran but I think Linus is planning to do a test for our upcoming dual 980 versus Triple 970 SLI so down so stay subscribed for that from December 13th to 20th 2014 you can save on select Intel CPUs kns and ssds with special holiday rebates from select retailers click now to learn more well I haven't played any more than the first couple minutes of the game I can't say how good it is because of that but the internet seems to be pretty undecided on the topic from what I played however the PC Port seems fairly solid as it didn't crash on me once and I didn't see a single graphical glitch something that I can't say for any other recent AAA game releases so The Benchmark starts right at the beginning of the game honestly at this point in time I don't even know the protagonist name I don't know anything about what's going on all I know is that you're being chased by cops and if that's a spoiler you probably haven't seen any trailer or the box art for this game uh all you're going to actually do is just kind of Chase the checkpoints for the beginning so go through all these fields smash through a whole bunch of stuff what you're going to want to try to avoid is smashing through cops or really heavy things like that so farm equipment or cops is that will turn the front of your car too much and could actually affect the Benchmark when you're going across this highway there's about three cop cars that come on the highway so try not to t-bone them that unfortunate horse doesn't die by the way he just super humanly moves out of the way extremely quickly when you jump down into the swamp try to aim kind of in between the bushes here you'll see there's a a ramp if you're doing your testing here it's not super important whether or not you go around or over the ramp but if you do one or the other you have to do that consistently because it does make enough of a difference that it matters so go either over the ramp or around the ramp no big deal now if you kept on going straight there you would have actually finished the mission and continued with the game we're not trying to play this game we're just trying to Benchmark it so take a U-turn after you get past or go over that ramp and start heading towards the electrical Tower off in the distance what you're going to then do is get this freaking cop off of you and try to go around the right side of the Tower and onto the highway you're going to get into the far side of the highway so the traffic is actually going with you or the interstate or something I don't know this is somewhere in America so I'm not entirely sure and then you're going to go along this for the rest of the duration of your benchmark which should be another 10ish seconds unit down repeat unit down one thing to keep in mind when looking at our 1080p numbers is that there is a 60 or 30fps limit on the game regardless of whether or not you're running vsync this resulted in the max FPS yes for our 290 290x 780ti 970 and 980 to be at the exact FPS limit at 4K all of our configurations had a fair bit of trouble and the only card that actually hit the FPS limit at high settings was the 980 even though I think it kind of just scraped it this game was surprisingly hard to run considering it's a car game but it also looks surprisingly good for a car game I'm impressed speaking of gaming I bet some of you out there are pretty entrenched in the new WoW expansion right above now well if you've been thinking I 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