welcome to another GPU Showdown this
time it's BioShock Infinite we've been asked for this a lot we're using the
very latest drivers available from both the Green Team and the red team because
we wanted to make sure that they've had a chance to put their appropriate optimizations in before we did our
benchmarking sort of guide as well as our Showdown and I'm really excited to
show this to you guys so let's start with our test bench we've got a 3960x
extreme Edition processor from Intel clocked at 4 GHz 16 gigs of Kingston
DDR3 1600 MHz RAM an Aus p9x 79 Deluxe
motherboard an antec 1000 wat High current Platinum power supply 128 gig
SSD and it's all cooled by a Corsair
h100 now obviously the graphics card changes but we've got four different
price points $100 $200 sort of end change $300 and $400 and we're going to
have the GTX 650 7770 GTX 660 7870 GTX
660 I which I've gotten the wrong spot
7970 and finally the GTX 670 versus the
7970 methodology wise we'll be doing our usual thing with a two-minute run
through of actual gameplay so if you guys are interested slick does videos
actually showcasing exactly the Run we do so you can follow along and Benchmark
your own system with BioShock Infinite and find out how it Stacks up against
the stuff that we're running here now I just wanted to remind you guys that all
of our video cards are overclocked and the reason re we do this is that
overclocking is easy and free and there's pretty much no reason you could
do it yes technically some manufacturers void the warranty little inside trick
they have absolutely no way of knowing if you overclocked your card
so $100 price point 7770 versus GTX 650
this was a bit of a trouncing the 7770 outperformed the GTX 650 by about 30%
which is uh definitely tangible and definitely something that you can feel
when you're actually playing the game now our $200 price point has gotten a
little bit uh a little bit murky is it $200 is it $250 not quite sure the 7870
is around $229 and the GTX 660 is around
239 what we do know is that these cards are priced quite similarly so they
should be pretty comparable and what we experience is that they are the 7870
outperforms the 660 by about 5% which for all intents and purposes is just
outside the margin of error that we have for these runs because we are doing real
world benchmarks as opposed to just running a caned uh pre-done thing so
it's just the it's the nature of the Beast you can't do it perfectly exactly
the same every single time at our next price point we have the 7950 and the GTX
660 Ti and this one was a pretty significant performance difference we're
looking at about 15% better performance
with the 7950 again bearing in mind both cards are overclocked and the 7950 does
tend to overclock like a bit of a beast it represents a very good value and has
actually done pretty well consistently in all of these game showdowns that
we've done and our last price point so we've done 1002 200 $300 so far is
around $400 so our 670 versus a 7970 was
about a 10% difference in favor of the 7970 so you can see that's the one left
on the bench here it was the king of BioShock Infinite for our testing bear
in mind when I say King I mean that sort of sort of King I mean GTX Titan would
obviously perform better but it didn't fall into any of the price points that
we Benchmark that we find our price points that real people would actually
be purchasing graphics cards at I mean there are people buying Titans but
there's not it's like a ton of them out there thank you for checking out this
benchmarking video well not benchmarking video you can check out the benchmarking
video separately slick made that but thank you for checking out our performance Showdown with this new
exciting installment of Bioshock apparently a lot better than the second
one so that's uh that's a good thing and don't forget to subscribe to l tective
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