Welcome to our Starcraft 2 performance overview and review and Roundup and the
results were so shocking that slick peed
himself that is quite literally what happen see I can tell because when I put
my 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
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