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NVIDIA welcome to another lonus tech tips video 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
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