WEBVTT 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 00:00:04.359 --> 00:00:12.360 not actually an EVGA 8800 it's an assus 00:00:07.680 --> 00:00:13.960 8800 GTX with an EVGA Ultra Cooler on it 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 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:21.680 since the launch of the 8800 GT and 3 00:00:19.400 --> 00:00:27.480 years is according to NVIDIA's internal research anyway about the average 00:00:24.039 --> 00:00:30.800 upgrade cycle time for a gamer so I want 00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:33.840 to have a look at what gamers who bought 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:37.079 the original direct X10 gpus so that's a 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:41.520 full direct X Generation ago that is the 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:44.360 8800 GTX 8800 GTS 8800 Ultra and really 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 00:00:46.440 --> 00:00:52.800 20 to 30% of each other what do they get 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:56.079 by upgrading to what is now by all 00:00:52.800 --> 00:01:01.480 appearances the direct X11 bang for the 00:00:56.079 --> 00:01:03.079 buck GPU to have the GTX 560 t I so 00:01:01.480 --> 00:01:07.840 here's another interesting point to kind of look at the steam Hardware survey 00:01:05.199 --> 00:01:13.960 actually reveals that 72% of gamers are still on Direct 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:18.040 X10 so you can imagine that NVIDIA is really hoping that a lot of those guys 00:01:16.080 --> 00:01:21.880 who upgraded to direct X10 you know two to three years ago and are getting to 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 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 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:36.680 older generation card such as this one 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 00:01:39.399 --> 00:01:45.079 a little bit about what things we are 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 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:52.280 frame rate in the top right corner so it's up around 00:01:55.600 --> 00:02:01.280 oh so this is my image quality compare 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 00:02:03.079 --> 00:02:10.679 running on all medium details this is with the 8800 GTX you can see the frame 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:15.519 rate up in the corner is around 50 frames per second now some people would 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 00:02:17.480 --> 00:02:22.200 FPS blah blah blah but personally I do 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:27.319 find I notice a difference at higher than 50 FPS honestly my ideal is around 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:30.360 60 plus although 50 is very very playable but I will actually show you 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 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 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 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:48.840 things like uh anti-aliasing so if you look 00:02:45.720 --> 00:02:50.959 closely at uh parts of the image like 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:54.760 the trees you're going to notice that with the with the lower image quality 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:59.920 settings you're going to have more more jaggies on leaves uh or on things like 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:04.319 the tree trunks you can see there they're quite Jagged especially while 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:06.200 you're moving the effect is um is very 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:11.760 noticeable um anyway I'm going to sort of demonstrate why I don't believe that 00:03:08.760 --> 00:03:13.519 30fps when you're in a still scene is 00:03:11.760 --> 00:03:18.280 enough because you check check this out okay so as soon as I do something like 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 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:29.040 never dip below 30 FPS because when 00:03:26.920 --> 00:03:33.560 there's explosions going on and you're moving fast around the map and there's 00:03:31.239 --> 00:03:38.519 lots of enemy characters being drawn that's exactly the time when you need 00:03:35.920 --> 00:03:42.239 all of the performance that you can get and if your frame rate dips at that 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:47.760 critical time you're going to miss a shot or you're going to accidentally 00:03:44.720 --> 00:03:49.519 drive off a cliff or or what whatever 00:03:47.760 --> 00:03:54.879 whatever can happen while you're not able to properly see what exactly you're 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 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 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:06.560 in the top corner and it's around 40 FPS 00:04:03.920 --> 00:04:11.120 so anyway yes this is all medium details with the 8800 GTX you know what crisis 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 00:04:13.640 --> 00:04:22.560 in a minute how much even more better it can look with a GTX 560 TI 00:04:34.479 --> 00:04:41.840 okay guys I've got my GTX 560 TI on the 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:46.000 test bench now this is a an Intel Core 00:04:41.840 --> 00:04:48.440 i7 2600k processor overclocked to 4.7 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 00:04:51.080 --> 00:04:57.840 that very same scene right when I first load my image quality compare save point 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 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:10.120 quality difference for running at 115 frames per second versus running at 50 00:05:06.840 --> 00:05:12.120 frames per second nothing notada not at 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:16.199 all now motion might be a little bit more fluid especially if you're running 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:21.520 on a 120 HZ monitor like the one I have here remember anything above 60 frames 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 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:32.560 monitor because it can only display 60 frames per second how whereas a 120 HZ 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:33.919 monitor is capable of more so here I'm 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:37.800 just going to show you guys like what happens to the frame rate when we blow 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 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 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 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 00:05:55.600 --> 00:06:01.520 do our image quality comparison I'll show you guys the screenshots at the end 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 00:06:04.840 --> 00:06:11.840 title how much of a difference a video card upgrade can make for you if you 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:11.840 haven't done one in a few 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 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 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 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 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 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:44.080 the 8800 GTX does so you can see that textures are much much better uh Shadows 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:49.000 are softer a lot more Dynamic a lot more realistic looking we've got like you 00:06:46.440 --> 00:06:53.560 know God Rays going through the uh through the the light that passes 00:06:51.039 --> 00:06:58.360 through the trees just way more processing effects the water looks 00:06:55.199 --> 00:07:00.280 better um and even when you know oh I 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:05.840 walked too close whoops okay well let's try that one more 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:10.840 time even when I you know start blowing things up explosions look more 00:07:08.479 --> 00:07:15.759 realistic and the the frame rate really doesn't dip down below 35 or so frames 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:20.160 per second which is acceptable even when the action gets 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 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:30.479 the road here and I just want to demonstrate that even when things get 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:36.759 hairy that my frame rate is going to stay 00:07:32.520 --> 00:07:39.160 satisfactory now 35 frames per second I 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:43.960 would consider more than acceptable for single player but for a multiplayer game 00:07:42.039 --> 00:07:47.759 yeah I would probably I would probably compromise some of that image quality 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 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 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 00:08:00.039 --> 00:08:07.240 you guys can watch the frame rate and please don't watch my terrible gaming 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 00:08:09.440 --> 00:08:16.360 what are you going to do and now I died so thank you for 00:08:14.039 --> 00:08:21.759 checking out my video on what kind of image quality increases you can get if 00:08:18.479 --> 00:08:24.680 you take your old direct X10 class video 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 00:08:28.039 --> 00:08:34.839 anything else a lot more horsepower so that's how much different it can be even 00:08:32.479 --> 00:08:39.000 with an older direct X10 game image quality screenshot comparison coming 00:08:37.680 --> 00:08:46.640 actually here's one other interesting tidbit my power consumption was only 00:08:42.560 --> 00:08:50.200 about wow about 5% higher at its peak 00:08:46.640 --> 00:08:53.040 with the GTX 560 versus the 8800 GTX so 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:56.720 that's just phenomenal you get that much more performance that much better image 00:08:54.800 --> 00:09:02.519 quality without any additional power budget when you upgrade to a GTX 560 TI 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:02.519 bye