of course no new GeForce launch would be complete without some 3D vision coverage
so what I'll be focusing on here is the GTX 670 versus its predecessor
predecessor predecessor the 570 as well
as versus its Big Brother the GTX 680 so
I'll just be looking at in a couple of games I'm not going to go too deep into
the games on this one so we're just going to do crisis 2 as well as Skyrim
in a couple games which one delivers the best 3D experience I'll be using all the
same settings that I used for my regular 1080p performance review which means I'm
running all these games pretty much maxed out and uh so yeah you see the end
of my crisis 2 run through there I clearly died because I couldn't really
do anything without the glasses on but uh yeah stay tuned I'll show you guys
the performance results as well as um
yeah that's pretty much it just performance results for this stereoscopic 3D performance evaluation
I'll be using the same test bench I'm using for my regular review which is a
Gigabyte x79 ud7 so that's uh up to
four-way SLI capable motherboard I've got a 3930k overclock to 4 GHz for my
CPU that's a six core processor with hyperthreading 16 gigs of Kingston 1600
MHz RAM and a Kronos SSD uh Kronos
Deluxe SS D for my boot drive and then obviously I'll have a variety of
different video cards and the h100 keeps the CPU nice and cool at that
overclock so for Skyrim I'm doing my usual run through so I didn't show this
in the 1080p performance reviews so I might as well show it now so basically I
just take a walk around the town I go over to the end of there I stare at that
fire for a little bit over there and then I walk over here and I come up here
and around here and you know looking off into the distance a fair bit uh I stare
at uh these two guards a little bit just
to make a point of looking at a couple of character models and that is how I
evaluate Skyrim yes I know this is a bit of an ideal scenario and there's not too
much in terms of particle effects or tons of characters on the screen but it
does give me reproducible results that I can easily compare from one card to
another so it gives us an idea of how they perform relative to each other so
as you guys will see in a moment when I show you the graph that's on the screen
right over there the GTX 670 just
destroys the 570 it's the card that it's
replacing in 3D gaming performance so crisis 2 is a great game to test in 3D
because it's pretty much designed from the ground up for it there's very little
performance
um hit for enabling 3D sorry guys I'm a
little slow it's sort of late um there's very little performance hit for enabling
3D it's a great title to play in 3D other than you know a little bit of uh
weirdness around the gun it just looks fantastic so you can see here the GTX
670 is just barely slower than its Big Brother the 680 this card is um just
yeah it's uncharacteristically close to the
very very high-end card in spite of the significant difference in price and I'm
sorry the I forgot to fix these labels but this is min FPS and this is Max FPS
if you guys weren't already aware so you can see the Min FPS that's where you're
really going to see the big difference between the 670 and the 570 because this
is about a 50% Improvement in minimum frames per second which translates to a
very tangible um tangibly better
experience when you're playing in 3D The Witcher 2 gives us some very telling
stats cuz you can see how Kepler has been significantly beefed up compared to
fery in terms of its stereo 3D performance even in titles that aren't
you know sort of 3D from the get-go when the when the game developer was
designing it so you see this the GTX 680 so even if the 670 was about 10% slower
at 31 minimum and you know 44 Max average
FPS that is still a 3X plus almost a 4ex
improvement over the GTX 570 in terms of the minimum frame rates so I ran into
the same weirdness with Witcher 2 where the GTX 670 outperformed The 680 that I
did it when I wasn't running in 3D and my hypothesis at this time is that
because I'm using a newer driver revision that is not yet compatible with
the 680 so I had to use two different drivers that there are some Witcher two
performance improvements to be had and we're going to see this number get boosted up in the near future as well so
thank you for checking out my 3D performance overview I know I only did a
couple games but the general idea was I just wanted to see how does it compare
against the previous generation in terms of 3D performance and the answer is very
favorably and how close can it be to its big brother and the answer is very very
very close which was true when we weren't running in 3D and is also true
when we are running in 3D so thank you for checking out this 3D 4 Minutes
review of the GTX 670 from NVIDIA and don't forget to subscribe to lineus Tech
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