GeForce GTX 770 1440p Performance Review
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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review take two shot
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one now if you're a regular viewer you've probably heard me say before why
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are you buying a high-end graphics card if you're still connecting to your monitor via VGA I would actually go
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further than that now if you're spending a few hundred on a graphics card and
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you're not running at a resolution higher than 1080p you're probably doing
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something wrong and you're probably misallocating your funds in some way
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because monitors are so inexpensive now they've got those cheap ones on eBay you
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can get IPS panels for a few hundred bucks for a 1440p display that you
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should make that part of your upgrade plan in order to have a better more
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immersive gaming experience the GTX 770
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is a direct replacement for the 670 and comes in with a very similar spec to the
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outgoing GTX 680 it's got that same full-fledged GK 104 core it's clocked
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higher than the 680 by default using GPU boost 2 to achieve its its own boosted
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overclocked speeds and to make it operate you know at a fixed temperature
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and all the cool stuff that comes along with GPU boost 2 it has a better cooler
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that looks outstanding in addition to keeping the card cool enough as well as
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an updated fan profile that makes it less U Less uh liable to ramp up and
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ramp down in an annoying fashion so it's got all that going for it but the big
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improvement over GTX 680 for my standpoint is the 7 GHz gddr5 memory on
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it so it's still using a 256bit bus but
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the memory is clocked substantially higher allowing for it to perform better
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particularly at higher resolutions as you are about to see now we're using our
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usual standardized test bench we've got our Nel core i739 60x at 4 GHz 16 gigs
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of Kingston RAM a p9x 79 Deluxe motherboard a 128 gig SSD for our boot
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drive as well as the latest drivers from both the green and the red teams without
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further Ado let's get into the performance
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numbers Metro last Light is an unbelievably demanding game at
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1440p even the GTX Titan and GTX 780 are
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brought to their knees however their version of brought to knees is very
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different from the rest of the cards you can see here that memory bandwidth is
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king So those cards do well the GTX 770
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beats the card that it's replacing as well as the card that it is very similar
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to in terms of spec except for its increased memory bandwidth quite handly
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in this test with both of the cards from the red team also doing phenomenally
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well partly due to the fact that they have great memory bandwidth and 3 gig
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memory buffers as a opposed to the 2 gig memory buffers that we see on the NVIDIA
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cards that we have in this test in Tomb reader we see a hint of the things that
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we saw in our 1080p performance review of this card where it looks like the GPU
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boost on this particular card isn't that
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competitive with the way that our 680 turns up when overclocked remember we
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overclock all of our cards for our performance testing so what that
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revealed was that our GTX 770 is not
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necessarily faster than R 68 once both cards are overclocked to the max I'm
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expecting this to change at some point with some tweaks and I mean if that's
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not the case I'm expecting most 770s to
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boost up higher than our particular one because remember this is a higher TDP
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card which means it can is able to draw more power it has a higher stock clock
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speed and it has that much faster memory to go with it with all of that said
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we've got GTX Titan and gtx780 in completely their own world way at top of
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the graphs then we've got a cluster of cards that are all pretty much within
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margin of error of the ones on either side of them followed up by the GTX 660
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Ti and the gtx670 down at the very bottom in BioShock Infinite we see
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another example of GTX Titan gtx780
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completely running away with it stealing the show and everything else looking
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like a very sort of clustered grouping of cards once again though we see our
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770 in spite of the fact that we did observe some weird ramping of the core
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clock speed ahead of the GTX 680 and it
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looks like remember guys at higher resolutions we're more dependent on
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memory performance it looks like that memory is really helping out the card
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here in Far Cry 3 same pattern those top
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two cards are the top two cards and everything else is below them but we do
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see the 770 pull ahead not only of the 670 in a pretty sort of impressive
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fashion but we see it pull ahead of the GTX 680 as well so we can attribute this
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to the improved memory band with once
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again moving on to Far Cry 3 blood Dragon remember these are based on the
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same engine but have very different demands on your system we see again GTX
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Titan gtx780 and everything else very
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very close after that with the gtx770 being the only GK 104 based card that
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really separated itself in this test we did rerun these numbers and it's pretty
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bizarre and we're not quite sure how we ended up with the same performance
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with all three of these cards especially at such a GPU bound resolution but there
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you have it the 770 was the only one that really separated
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itself Crisis 3 is another game where we see the GTX 770s very incremental
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improvements over the last generation GeForce cards and we see GTX Titan and
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gtx780 just kind of stomping all over
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everything just like they are probably going to continue to do for a while
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until AMD manages to Launch launch some kind of Counterattack that can in some
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way address the GTX 780 and GTX Titan so
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what's the conclusion for this GTX 770
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is very suitable for running at 1440p just like GTX 680 was before it except
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more so it looks better it's quieter not
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only is it quieter but the way the fan ramps up and down is less annoying you
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get GeForce experience which allows you to keep your drivers updated as well as
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gives you recommendations for your game settings which might not be relevant to
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you but might be relevant to someone who you recommend a card to if you know that
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they can't handle handling all that stuff on their own and it comes in at a
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lower price than the GTX 680 that it is
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inheriting most of its technology from but not its looks you get a card that
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looks very premium sounds very premium performs very premium and is suitable
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for gaming at that resolution at a price point that it wasn't available at before
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so it's really hard to go wrong bear in mind guys the numbers you were looking
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at in this test were based on us running at extremely high settings at that
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resolution even with cards like the Titan to get really smooth playable
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frame rates you'd probably end up turning things down from you know ultra
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settings with anti-aliasing all over the place because it is much more demanding
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on your graphics card to run at a higher resolution thank you for checking out my
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1440p performance review of the GTX 770
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