{"video_id":"TkoK8UmJnpU","title":"Which is the Best Gaming Platform for the Fastest Single GPU Graphics Card? 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this video was intended to be part of our GeForce GTX Titan coverage so here's our Titan GPU on our test bench or well one of our test benches more on that in a moment this is the fastest single GPU graphics card in the world and it was intended to be kind of like what's the best uh the best platform pairing for the Titan GPU but we went a little bit beyond that and took it to be more of a uh a cross-section of games from our test PL from our test Suite where we went okay well let's actually just look at a bunch of different platforms so we took our x79 platform here so this is with a 3960x at 4 GHz which is probably a little bit conservative for that one um and then we ran that with 16 gigs of RAM so four dims running in Quad Channel then we took our um FX or 990 FX platform with an 8350 at 4.6 gz this one runs with just 8 gigs so these are running so everything's running with um all channels populated with one dim okay so this one's running with 8 gigs in dual Channel then we grabbed a 3770k with 8 gigs of memory okay and that one's clocked at 4.4 GHz we're going for overclocks here remember all of our stuff's overclocked the Titan's overclocked everything's overclocked we're going for overclocks that we believe are going to be attainable for 95 to 98 % of the people who own this Hardware so you guys have a realistic idea of what you can expect so this one's at 4.4 GHz then we grabbed an older platform just to represent anyone running a Bloomfield or Lindfield CPU so this is an 875k and we ran that one with 8 gigs of RAM at what was it 3.8 or something like that I don't remember what we ran it at but it's on our graphs so don't worry too much about it so we took four different platforms and ran our entire game test Suite with the Titan now we are planning to rerun um a slightly different test 3570k versus 8350 and just those two CPUs with a more realistic GPU like a 660 Ti and then uh but that'll be a separate video so this is more like we were doing this work anyway for the Titan launch so we figured let's take a bunch of platforms let's see which one game's the best this is running 1080p for all the different games and here is our first game so um actually we don't have to stare at the screen because we can overlay these graphs but the 3960x takes the top of the charts in Crisis 3 and this makes sense now what we've heard is that the 8350 actually beats the 3570k but we haven't tested that yet because Crisis 3 seems to really benefit from multi-or and we do see that in spite of the fact that the 3960x has lower instructions per clock than a 3770k in spite of the fact that it's actually clocked 10% lower it performs equally and we can only attribute that to the fact that it has two more physical cores and two more virtual cores the 87 75k also performs quite well in this game keeping up with the 8350 and we can attribute that to the fact that it has hyperthreading so the 3770k beats out the 8350 but that might only be because of hyperthreading and I'm really excited to check out the 3570 which is quad core no hyperthreading against AMD's 8 core FX Flagship moving along to Far Cry 3 Far Cry 3 seems to really benefit from single-threaded performance so the 3770k at 4.4 GHz cleans up here beating out the 3960x the 8350 and the significantly older now 875k which is starting to really show its age in terms of gaming performance in this particular game now our Skyrim is running with 18 different mods from the Steam Workshop so it's not really a stock Skyrim so you're going to see more separation than you would if you're running at stock this one seems to benefit from mostly just having well uh High clock speeds and doesn't get much of a benefit at all from the8 cores of the 8350 which you can see performs about the same as a much older quad core 875k so this one is not optimized for multiple cores you need higher instructions per clock and that's what we get on the 3770k and 3960x Battlefield 3 at the ultra presets now Battlefield 3 is regarded as one of those games that does benefit from multi-threading but it doesn't seem to favor the AMD platform so all of our hyperthreading enabled processors as well as our faster hyperthreading enabled processors so our 3770k and our 3960x uh performs significantly better in Battlefield 3 than the 8350 however it should be noted that the scale on this graph is a little bit funny so I'll have to let slick know before he makes graphs like this next time that this should start at zero so the difference in performance between these processors isn't actually as dramatic as it looks it's it's okay he says he fixed it before but apparently fix that he'll fix it before we uh you can download all these graphs from the link in the video description and he'll fix it before uploading it so you guys will see the correct version in the uh in the in the download there Metro 2033 the 3960x this is kind of bizarre it just tanks in this one and we're not really sure why that happened but this game didn't like this platform that much the 3770k cleans up the 8350 shows its shows its strength so Metro 33 does seem to benefit from the additional cores but then it doesn't benefit from the additional cor so it might just be an AMD architectural thing that this game likes but uh yeah that's pretty much all we have to say about that and then Witcher 2 has everything performing actually pretty closely so AMD brings up the rear but even that it's only about 10% slower than the flagship 3960x from Intel and the 3770k which is the fastest Ivy Bridge processor right now and that's pretty much the end of the slideshow so hopefully this has been somewhat enlightening and you guys uh can sort of see why we actually sort of ran it hope hopefully it was interesting thanks for checking out this video on lineus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos make sure that you are subscribed"}