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4k display pricing is dropping so rapidly like it's only 250 to 350 bucks

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for an ultra HD monitor or TV these days

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but it takes a lot of graphics power to

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drive them so how should you do it the

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xbox 1x is being built by Microsoft as true 4k gaming Sony is calling their

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experienced native 4k land pro and

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NVIDIA shocked us by reaching out about doing

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their first ever sponsored video with us about their flavor of 4k gaming which

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they're calling ultimate 4k let's find

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out what they mean by that

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okay so why should you trust an NVIDIA

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sponsored video about their 4k gaming

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solution because they have absolutely no

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reason to be su no matter which team you bat for there are a couple of things

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that any objective person can agree on about the gtx 1080 TI one it's kind of

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pricey and two it's the fastest 4k

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gaming card on the market and these are both things that would be stupid to try

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to lie about because they can be measured objectively we'll be looking at

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four games on five different platforms the fastest console today the Xbox one X

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a modern gaming PC equipped with a GTX

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1080 Ti and three more older gaming PC's

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equipped with the GPU ghosts of Black Friday's past let's start by getting the

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image quality comparisons out of the way they're an important consideration but

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they are also kind of apples to oranges since the Xbox one X costs less than a

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gtx 1080i by itself let's start with

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forza this game runs smoothly at 60

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frames per second on the xbox 1x thanks to its use of dynamic quality controls

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that actually adjust image quality as you whip around on the track it's a

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really impressive optimization technique that is actually enabled by default on

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the PC as well but if you have the horsepower you can turn it off and it

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will reveal some extras that would otherwise be absent like Tufts of grass

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rather than texture work and higher resolution textures like you can see

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here at the edges of the track shadow of war meanwhile shows that while the Xbox

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port does once again a really good job

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of delivering solid visual clarity at 4k the PC version unsurprisingly has the

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capability of showing more detail and using higher resolution textures and as

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we'll see shortly it can do this while maintaining a much smoother frame rate

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okay neat then but I think that a lot of

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people would agree that at this kind of

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total system price difference more detailed grass is a pretty tuft cell and

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that would be fair but NVIDIA actually doesn't make any money if you buy a new

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CPU and motherboard or whatever they only sell graphics cards so why don't we

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look at it a different way what if you upgraded your old PC with one of these

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to answer that question first we need to

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see how exactly your old rig is holding up right now so we tested our games at

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1080p high 4k low and 4k high noting any

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adjustments that we made to the presets this way you can decide for yourself

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whether the difference between Full HD and 4k or low details versus high

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details is worth it for you right away we see a huge advantage in Forza 7 for

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our current generation 1080 TI system with our 4k low 97th percentile minimum

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actually above the previous flagship 980

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TI is average at 4k Ultra it actually

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manages up to a hundred and twenty frames per second meaning that on next

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generation high refresh rate 4k displays you could see even more smoothness

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Middle Earth shadow of war shows us another huge gain for the 1080 TI over

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its predecessors even on our older systems with 4k ultra winding up at just

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shy of 60 FPS on average and a very

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playable especially with the g-sync display 97th percentile low of just over

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40 on - Pub G we've got a closer race

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here at 1080p as the bottleneck is mainly down to poor CPU optimization

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moving on to 4k we've got great performance at low and then when we look

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at high details still great performance that is some

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weak CPU optimization destiny - shows a

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pretty familiar looking graph with 1080p performance predictably better but when

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we step things up to 4k we find that this is the second game of the day to

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not only average higher than 60 frames per second but claimed a 97th percentile

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of 60 as well solid now let's upgrade

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those old systems if you're a 1080p high

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detail gamer the CPU bottlenecking is real here though you should bear in mind

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that we didn't overclock any of these older systems and you could expect

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significant performance improvements in some cases as for our 4k results well

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this is where NVIDIA's story here gets pretty interesting since you're

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generally GPU bound when you run at high resolution and high details our last

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generation 4790k performs basically on

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par with our 7700 K which is architectural II very similar to the

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vaporware six core 8700 K and then even

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more impressively going all the way back to a core i5

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2500 K this was a 200 ish dollar CPU

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from 2011 we saw performance drops as

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small as 5 to 10 percent when upgrading

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to a brand new top-of-the-line card so

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what this means is that our gaming experience is very similar whether we

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buy a brand new system or retrofit an

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old PC bringing the 1080 TI's higher 4k

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image quality and performance much closer in price to a 4k gaming console

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so there you have it the path to 4k have

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been laid out before you what do you guys think would you pony up for a brand

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new machine would you dumpster dive for

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a secondary box or upgrade your existing one with a shiny new graphics card or is

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a new game console at the top of your wish list this year let us know in the

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comments below so thanks for watching if you guys

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honestly man this video was like

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we spent so much time on the screen cap

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and on measuring the frame rates because even though NVIDIA does almost no

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sponsored stuff with us we knew that if we got even like one thing wrong you

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guys were going to tear us apart and so huh glad that's over