{"video_id":"U9SfaKlWCoY","title":"Starcraft 2 Gaming Graphics Card Benchmark Showdown Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":315,"segments":[{"start_s":8.12,"end_s":16.8,"text":"Welcome to our Starcraft 2 performance overview and review and Roundup and the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.44,"end_s":19.359,"text":"results were so shocking that slick peed","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.8,"end_s":24.16,"text":"himself that is quite literally what happen see I can tell because when I put","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.72,"end_s":26.88,"text":"my hand on the stain and smell it it's most assuredly","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":27.8,"end_s":35.28,"text":"urine that's gross dude okay so anyway we're using the latest","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":33.0,"end_s":39.44,"text":"drivers on both the GeForce and Radeon graphics cards and we're 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hand on the stain and smell it it's most assuredly urine that's gross dude okay so anyway we're using the latest drivers on both the GeForce and Radeon graphics cards and we're following our new format which is a very exciting format where we take four different price brackets this time about a 100 bucks about 200 bucks about 300 bucks and about 400 bucks so no matter how much you want to spend on a graphics card we're going to tell you what is the optimal solution whether it's from the Green Team or the red team now our Starcraft 2 Benchmark is custom slick did some re magical whatever he did and he created this playthrough where the guys fight each other and it's very very intensive so it gives you kind of a worst case scenario not necessarily something that you'd observe when you're you know you all have like one Hatchery and like you know two zerglings over here like that's not what we're looking at we're looking at the very worst case and uh right latest drivers so Catalyst 13.1 and the NVIDIA drivers 31 13.96% you used beta drivers didn't you okay well from now on we're only going to use beta drivers or from now on we're only going to use official drivers but this time we used beta drivers so calm down anyway so our $100 approximately price point has the Radeon 7770 up against the GeForce GTX 650 so in this case we had an MSI Platinum Edition card and a sapphire uh whatever card this is Vapor X I think something along those lines power Edition sure power Edition um we do overclock all the cards but we don't take them to the absolute maximum that they can do we scour the interwebs and we find sort of what 90% of the people who are using these cards are able to attain and we run it those settings because the way we figure it we've done guides about this you should probably be overclocking your card if you own one because that's the right thing to do so at this particular price bracket the radon card was 119 bucks the GeForce card was about % cheaper but the 7770 just uh ran away with it at this price point um you can tell that Starcraft 2 is not necessarily limited by the um by the actual power of the GPU because you can see that when we step up to a 7870 and a GTX 660 this radon number doesn't change but it seems to be more to do with driver optimizations so in this case the red team card was a little bit less expensive than the Green Team card so the green team had a 660 I believe this is our 660 yep 660 twin frozer and then it was a 7870 for the red team now r7870 happens to be a dog of an overclocker so this is probably kind of a worst case scenario but um once again the red team comes Away by about looks like about 20% in terms of the performance Delta okay so our next price band is $300 so we've got the 79 up against the 660 Ti the 7950 wins by about 10% but notice here guys and this is at Ultra and extreme presets 1080p no anti- eling uh notice here though that this is only a 10% difference and this number is still pretty much the same as the 7770 finally we get up into the very upper echelon cards the 7970 versus the 670 where finally for whatever reason uh AMD's graphics cards are able to push a few more frames out this game um and the 670 hits that number around 64 FPS where the radon cards were performing up till this time so it's still about 10 15% slower so what does this mean uh basically that Starcraft 2 is purely optimization driven in terms of how the game runs on one card versus another also that we are extremely CPU limited on the radio side to the point where you can pay $400 for a graphics card or you can pay $100 for a graphics card to run this game and you're going to end up with pretty much the same results so thank you for checking out this video don't forget to check out the video which I've annotated in this video showing you the benchmarking procedure that we use for Starcraft 2 so you can replicate it on your own system find out what's up the test bench that we use is our 3930k overclock to 4 GHz test bench uh we pulled out the RAM because we're using it for something else right now but the point is it has 16 gigs of RAM an ocz Vertex 4 SSD and and that is pretty much all she wrote don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips more unboxings reviews and other computer videos and I can't wait to get this button shirt off this is just horrible just like why am I wearing this"}