1
00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:07,680
so I've got what might appear to be kind of a random card on my test bench it's

2
00:00:04,359 --> 00:00:12,360
not actually an EVGA 8800 it's an assus

3
00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:13,960
8800 GTX with an EVGA Ultra Cooler on it

4
00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:19,400
and there is a very good reason I have this here now it's been about 3 years

5
00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:21,680
since the launch of the 8800 GT and 3

6
00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:27,480
years is according to NVIDIA's internal research anyway about the average

7
00:00:24,039 --> 00:00:30,800
upgrade cycle time for a gamer so I want

8
00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:33,840
to have a look at what gamers who bought

9
00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:37,079
the original direct X10 gpus so that's a

10
00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:41,520
full direct X Generation ago that is the

11
00:00:37,079 --> 00:00:44,360
8800 GTX 8800 GTS 8800 Ultra and really

12
00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:49,520
the 8800 GT they all fall into kind of a a performance range that's within about

13
00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:52,800
20 to 30% of each other what do they get

14
00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:56,079
by upgrading to what is now by all

15
00:00:52,800 --> 00:01:01,480
appearances the direct X11 bang for the

16
00:00:56,079 --> 00:01:03,079
buck GPU to have the GTX 560 t I so

17
00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:07,840
here's another interesting point to kind of look at the steam Hardware survey

18
00:01:05,199 --> 00:01:13,960
actually reveals that 72% of gamers are still on Direct

19
00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:18,040
X10 so you can imagine that NVIDIA is really hoping that a lot of those guys

20
00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:21,880
who upgraded to direct X10 you know two to three years ago and are getting to

21
00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:27,200
the end of the life cycle of their card are going to upgrade to one of these so

22
00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:34,399
let's have a look at what the benefit is of upgrading to a GTX 56t I from an

23
00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:36,680
older generation card such as this one

24
00:01:34,399 --> 00:01:42,640
so I'm loading my save game called image quality compare and I just want to talk

25
00:01:39,399 --> 00:01:45,079
a little bit about what things we are

26
00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:49,040
going to be observing here so first of all I want you guys to check out the

27
00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:52,280
frame rate in the top right corner so it's up around

28
00:01:55,600 --> 00:02:01,280
oh so this is my image quality compare

29
00:01:59,039 --> 00:02:05,799
save game I want you to notice a few things about it uh first of all we are

30
00:02:03,079 --> 00:02:10,679
running on all medium details this is with the 8800 GTX you can see the frame

31
00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:15,519
rate up in the corner is around 50 frames per second now some people would

32
00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:20,560
probably argue that this is like uh too high in the human eye can only see 30

33
00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:22,200
FPS blah blah blah but personally I do

34
00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:27,319
find I notice a difference at higher than 50 FPS honestly my ideal is around

35
00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:30,360
60 plus although 50 is very very playable but I will actually show you

36
00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:37,200
guys why so I'm going to do still screenshots for you to compare and you can flip

37
00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:40,239
YouTube into 1080p to to really look at it closely but the stuff you're going to

38
00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:44,760
want to focus on actually I'm going to go here back to the beginning is uh

39
00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:48,840
things like uh anti-aliasing so if you look

40
00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:50,959
closely at uh parts of the image like

41
00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:54,760
the trees you're going to notice that with the with the lower image quality

42
00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:59,920
settings you're going to have more more jaggies on leaves uh or on things like

43
00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:04,319
the tree trunks you can see there they're quite Jagged especially while

44
00:03:01,319 --> 00:03:06,200
you're moving the effect is um is very

45
00:03:04,319 --> 00:03:11,760
noticeable um anyway I'm going to sort of demonstrate why I don't believe that

46
00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:13,519
30fps when you're in a still scene is

47
00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:18,280
enough because you check check this out okay so as soon as I do something like

48
00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:26,920
run around and blow up a barrel boom it dips so for me I want the frame rate to

49
00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:29,040
never dip below 30 FPS because when

50
00:03:26,920 --> 00:03:33,560
there's explosions going on and you're moving fast around the map and there's

51
00:03:31,239 --> 00:03:38,519
lots of enemy characters being drawn that's exactly the time when you need

52
00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:42,239
all of the performance that you can get and if your frame rate dips at that

53
00:03:40,599 --> 00:03:47,760
critical time you're going to miss a shot or you're going to accidentally

54
00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:49,519
drive off a cliff or or what whatever

55
00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:54,879
whatever can happen while you're not able to properly see what exactly you're

56
00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:59,280
doing so here you can see I'm driving and uh oh wow it looks like I managed to

57
00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:03,920
cut off the frame rate counter in the top there yeah so I've got fraps running

58
00:04:00,879 --> 00:04:06,560
in the top corner and it's around 40 FPS

59
00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:11,120
so anyway yes this is all medium details with the 8800 GTX you know what crisis

60
00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:16,400
looks great crisis looks great on an 8800 GTX and I'm going to show you guys

61
00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:22,560
in a minute how much even more better it can look with a GTX 560 TI

62
00:04:34,479 --> 00:04:41,840
okay guys I've got my GTX 560 TI on the

63
00:04:37,759 --> 00:04:46,000
test bench now this is a an Intel Core

64
00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:48,440
i7 2600k processor overclocked to 4.7

65
00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:52,840
GHz so we shouldn't be seeing too much in terms of CPU bottlenecking now I'm at

66
00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:57,840
that very same scene right when I first load my image quality compare save point

67
00:04:55,639 --> 00:05:03,880
and you can see we're up around 115 frames per second now there is no image

68
00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:10,120
quality difference for running at 115 frames per second versus running at 50

69
00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:12,120
frames per second nothing notada not at

70
00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:16,199
all now motion might be a little bit more fluid especially if you're running

71
00:05:13,639 --> 00:05:21,520
on a 120 HZ monitor like the one I have here remember anything above 60 frames

72
00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:25,400
per second is not going to really help you out when you're running on a 60 HZ

73
00:05:23,319 --> 00:05:32,560
monitor because it can only display 60 frames per second how whereas a 120 HZ

74
00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:33,919
monitor is capable of more so here I'm

75
00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:37,800
just going to show you guys like what happens to the frame rate when we blow

76
00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:43,120
up a barrel instead of Dipping down to you know the 35 to 40 range we're

77
00:05:40,319 --> 00:05:47,400
dipping down to the 95 range so you won't even feel a dip so what do you do

78
00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:53,240
as soon as you start being able to run a game at insane frame rates well you turn

79
00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:57,520
up the details so I'm going to turn everything up to high and we're going to

80
00:05:55,600 --> 00:06:01,520
do our image quality comparison I'll show you guys the screenshots at the end

81
00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:07,039
of the video and we'll see even on an old this is an old title old direct X10

82
00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:11,840
title how much of a difference a video card upgrade can make for you if you

83
00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:11,840
haven't done one in a few

84
00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:19,120
years so I'm loading that very same save game and one thing you guys are probably

85
00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:23,680
going to notice right off the bat is that up here my frame rate is a little

86
00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:28,520
bit lower than it was when I was running on the 8800 GTX so the reason is that

87
00:06:26,039 --> 00:06:33,360
I've turned the details way way up and what I've also noticed about the 560 TI

88
00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:38,800
is that when things get hairy it doesn't dip down nearly to the same degree that

89
00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:44,080
the 8800 GTX does so you can see that textures are much much better uh Shadows

90
00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:49,000
are softer a lot more Dynamic a lot more realistic looking we've got like you

91
00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:53,560
know God Rays going through the uh through the the light that passes

92
00:06:51,039 --> 00:06:58,360
through the trees just way more processing effects the water looks

93
00:06:55,199 --> 00:07:00,280
better um and even when you know oh I

94
00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:05,840
walked too close whoops okay well let's try that one more

95
00:07:02,879 --> 00:07:10,840
time even when I you know start blowing things up explosions look more

96
00:07:08,479 --> 00:07:15,759
realistic and the the frame rate really doesn't dip down below 35 or so frames

97
00:07:13,319 --> 00:07:20,160
per second which is acceptable even when the action gets

98
00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:25,479
intense so I'm actually just going to go for my little uh my little cruise down

99
00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:30,479
the road here and I just want to demonstrate that even when things get

100
00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:36,759
hairy that my frame rate is going to stay

101
00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:39,160
satisfactory now 35 frames per second I

102
00:07:36,759 --> 00:07:43,960
would consider more than acceptable for single player but for a multiplayer game

103
00:07:42,039 --> 00:07:47,759
yeah I would probably I would probably compromise some of that image quality

104
00:07:46,319 --> 00:07:51,560
for a higher frame rate just to make sure that it's being drawn on my screen

105
00:07:49,479 --> 00:07:56,280
before the other guy but in the case of single player really I candy is a big

106
00:07:54,199 --> 00:08:02,240
part of the experience so here let's go find some some dudes to kill and then uh

107
00:08:00,039 --> 00:08:07,240
you guys can watch the frame rate and please don't watch my terrible gaming

108
00:08:04,759 --> 00:08:11,280
skills because yes I'm playing on easy and yes I'm still not doing that well

109
00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:16,360
what are you going to do and now I died so thank you for

110
00:08:14,039 --> 00:08:21,759
checking out my video on what kind of image quality increases you can get if

111
00:08:18,479 --> 00:08:24,680
you take your old direct X10 class video

112
00:08:21,759 --> 00:08:30,479
card and upgrade it to the new GTX 560 TI with direct X11 and really more than

113
00:08:28,039 --> 00:08:34,839
anything else a lot more horsepower so that's how much different it can be even

114
00:08:32,479 --> 00:08:39,000
with an older direct X10 game image quality screenshot comparison coming

115
00:08:37,680 --> 00:08:46,640
actually here's one other interesting tidbit my power consumption was only

116
00:08:42,560 --> 00:08:50,200
about wow about 5% higher at its peak

117
00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:53,040
with the GTX 560 versus the 8800 GTX so

118
00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:56,720
that's just phenomenal you get that much more performance that much better image

119
00:08:54,800 --> 00:09:02,519
quality without any additional power budget when you upgrade to a GTX 560 TI

120
00:08:59,519 --> 00:09:02,519
bye