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welcome to another GPU Showdown this

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time it's BioShock Infinite we've been asked for this a lot we're using the

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very latest drivers available from both the Green Team and the red team because

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we wanted to make sure that they've had a chance to put their appropriate optimizations in before we did our

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benchmarking sort of guide as well as our Showdown and I'm really excited to

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show this to you guys so let's start with our test bench we've got a 3960x

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extreme Edition processor from Intel clocked at 4 GHz 16 gigs of Kingston

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DDR3 1600 MHz RAM an Aus p9x 79 Deluxe

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motherboard an antec 1000 wat High current Platinum power supply 128 gig

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SSD and it's all cooled by a Corsair

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h100 now obviously the graphics card changes but we've got four different

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price points $100 $200 sort of end change $300 and $400 and we're going to

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have the GTX 650 7770 GTX 660 7870 GTX

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660 I which I've gotten the wrong spot

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7970 and finally the GTX 670 versus the

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7970 methodology wise we'll be doing our usual thing with a two-minute run

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through of actual gameplay so if you guys are interested slick does videos

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actually showcasing exactly the Run we do so you can follow along and Benchmark

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your own system with BioShock Infinite and find out how it Stacks up against

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the stuff that we're running here now I just wanted to remind you guys that all

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of our video cards are overclocked and the reason re we do this is that

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overclocking is easy and free and there's pretty much no reason you could

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do it yes technically some manufacturers void the warranty little inside trick

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they have absolutely no way of knowing if you overclocked your card

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so $100 price point 7770 versus GTX 650

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this was a bit of a trouncing the 7770 outperformed the GTX 650 by about 30%

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which is uh definitely tangible and definitely something that you can feel

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when you're actually playing the game now our $200 price point has gotten a

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little bit uh a little bit murky is it $200 is it $250 not quite sure the 7870

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is around $229 and the GTX 660 is around

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239 what we do know is that these cards are priced quite similarly so they

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should be pretty comparable and what we experience is that they are the 7870

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outperforms the 660 by about 5% which for all intents and purposes is just

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outside the margin of error that we have for these runs because we are doing real

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world benchmarks as opposed to just running a caned uh pre-done thing so

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it's just the it's the nature of the Beast you can't do it perfectly exactly

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the same every single time at our next price point we have the 7950 and the GTX

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660 Ti and this one was a pretty significant performance difference we're

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looking at about 15% better performance

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with the 7950 again bearing in mind both cards are overclocked and the 7950 does

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tend to overclock like a bit of a beast it represents a very good value and has

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actually done pretty well consistently in all of these game showdowns that

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we've done and our last price point so we've done 1002 200 $300 so far is

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around $400 so our 670 versus a 7970 was

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about a 10% difference in favor of the 7970 so you can see that's the one left

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on the bench here it was the king of BioShock Infinite for our testing bear

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in mind when I say King I mean that sort of sort of King I mean GTX Titan would

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obviously perform better but it didn't fall into any of the price points that

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we Benchmark that we find our price points that real people would actually

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be purchasing graphics cards at I mean there are people buying Titans but

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there's not it's like a ton of them out there thank you for checking out this

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benchmarking video well not benchmarking video you can check out the benchmarking

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video separately slick made that but thank you for checking out our performance Showdown with this new

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exciting installment of Bioshock apparently a lot better than the second

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one so that's uh that's a good thing and don't forget to subscribe to l tective

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