Grand Theft Auto V PC - Video Card Showdown
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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it took 574 days or one year 6 months
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and 28 days after the initial console release for Rockstar to release GTA5 on
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PC was it worth the wait stay tuned to find out and stay subscribed for our GTA
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6 video coming in 202 or
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something Intel's new 750 series ssds
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utilize the NVMe standard providing speeds never seen before on consumer
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storage drives click now to learn more I'm going to spoil the ending a bit
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GTA 5 runs really well on PC definitely
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better than I actually expected but I guess that's what we get in exchange for
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all those delays the settings menu is nothing short of Glorious with a whack
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ton of options and scaling available memory bar based on the options it
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doesn't fail to please the feel the view settings could definitely be better but
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realistically the game wasn't designed to be played in first person so I don't
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think this was really the end of the world the settings under the advanced
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menu have the potential to push your system very hard and mostly don't have a
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massive impact on actual gameplay viewability and whatnot so I suggest not
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messing with this too much unless you have a beast system one more note on
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settings before we move on msaa above 2x can be quite taxing on your system in
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the daytime specifically be careful with this setting because it will affect
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performance quite differently depending on the time of day in the game at night
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time it's not that bad at daytime it's really heavy now this game's performance
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while great on PC is quite variable depending on the lighting of the scene
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if you're inside or outside if it's day or night how much stuff is going on
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around you Etc this game is huge and
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there's a ton of different things to do which is great in a gameplay standpoint
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but I don't think they properly captured this in their Benchmark which was a
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little bit more extreme than mine in both ways resulting in theirs having a
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lower minimum and higher maximum FPS and
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a slightly higher average FPS than mine in terms of performance I decided to
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test a bit more than we normally do these videos are usually just graphics
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card showdowns but you guys might want to know a little bit more about how the
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whole system will perform when underload with GTA 5 so first up is CPU core usage
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Rockstar did quite a good job balancing the CPU usage for this game although GTA
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did act a little bit oddly when interacting with hyperthreads resulting
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in the client largely ignoring them on the high end in terms of cores although
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it did end up using them properly when the overall thread count was lower
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resulting in a pretty flat performance across the board All Things Considered
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with the dual core no hyperthreading setup lagging behind slightly and the
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quad core Sweet Spot reigning Supreme once again and finally the graphics card
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performance Showdown we set our 1080p bench up with some pretty aggress
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aggressive settings after riging up the very high preset we put on 2x msaa
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softest shadows and took vsync off because well it's a benchmark
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unsurprisingly NVIDIA did quite well this is an NVIDIA title after all and it
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was very apparent that both companies saw this as an important release as they
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both had dedicated GTA 5 driver releases
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although it must also be noted that AMD's driver is a beta driver so if
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you're an AMD Graphics user and are planning to play GTA 5 I would suggest
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grabbing that beta driver if you aren't already a beta user it seemed stable
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enough in my testing so you'll probably be fine at 1080p everything seemed to go
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pretty smoothly although with the 750 Ti
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and the 260x things did get a little bit sketchy with stutters and some input lag
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every once in a while the 4K story was similar in terms of overall card
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positioning and we ran this test in high with softest Shadows or soft air Shadows
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no AA and vsync off however at 4K problems started with the 270x and
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included the 265 and 750 Ti and 260x yet again this
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game really doesn't seem to enjoy running under 30 FPS as it stuttered
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quite a bit with those cards thanks for watching did you like the inclusion of
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CPU core benchmarks would you like to see more benchmarks like these in gaming
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videos in the future maybe like RAM usage vram usage um overall load on the
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CPU anything like that let me know in the comments down below or over on the
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