NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 Unboxing & Technology Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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more welcome to my unboxing and first look at something where
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oh am I just trolling you guys this is
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no no don't worry what's actually in here is not an 8800 GT this is the
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GeForce GTX 770 from NVIDIA so this is a
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new generation product a 700 series product but what you'll notice is it
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actually shares a lot in common with the
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last generation GTX 680 so it has the
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same GK 104 core so that is it to say
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that it has a 256-bit memory bus the
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stock card has 2 gigs of RAM but there
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are non-reference cards that are going to be available with up to 4 gigs of RAM
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however the RAM is where the really special part of this video card really
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comes into play because this is the first graphics card on Earth to ship
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with 7 GHz gddr5 what that means is more memory
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bandwidth and we've actually already done a fair bit of testing on this card
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so what I can tell you right now is that yeah the higher clock speeds versus the
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GTX 680 yeah this is a 7D class card
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that is pretty much a replacement for the last generation Flagship GTX 680
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except that it's actually even faster so yeah it's got higher clock speeds but
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particularly at higher resolution so greater than 1080p that extra memory
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bandwidth helps a lot for it to really
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pull ahead of the GTX 680 it also supports some other new cool 700 series
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features such as GPU boost 2 so GPU boost 2 allows this card instead of
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relying just on information about voltage clock speed and then the overall
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power Target of the board now is able to compensate for temperature as as well so
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if you tell it GTX 670 I am comfortable
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with you running at 90° it'll kind of go okay Roger Dodger and then if you put a
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water block on it so it's running at you know 45 degrees no matter what you do
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then it will continue to strive to Turbo itself up to the absolute maximum clock
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speed that it can sustain all the time no matter what now the GeForce
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experience came out of beta with GTX 780 and obviously it supports the GTX 770 as
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well what that means is you've always got the latest drivers and you've got
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recommendations for the settings that you should run in the various games you
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have on your computer so that you're never running it wrong I mean honestly
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my little brother's a great case of this I hope he's not watching this video but
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I gave the kid a GTX 275 this was a couple years ago back when that was like
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you know a pretty decent card and I go over and he's running some Call of Duty
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game at low details at like 1280 by 800
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or something ridiculous like that on his 108 DP monitor I'm just I'm looking at
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the kid I'm like really you're not let it's running at like 300 frames per
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second you can actually turn the details St I turned the game up and he was like
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oh that's what it's supposed to look like yeah that's what it's supposed to look like so GeForce experience maybe
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isn't for you the viewer right now maybe it's not for you at all maybe you don't
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care maybe you want to dial in your own settings personally I do but maybe it's
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for someone that you're recommending a card for where you know that they're
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just not capable of remembering to upgrade their own drivers or choose
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their own setting so there you go I hope my brother's not watching this um also
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NVIDIA is going to be introducing a new feature in GeForce experience called
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Shadow play which is going to allow you to use the built-in h264 encoder on your
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card at a nominal performance hit maybe about 5% to record your gameplay up to
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the last 20 minutes of gameplay on the fly all the time so you never miss a
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moment when you're making up your gameplay videos or or whatever else very
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cool stuff all the usual NVIDIA Technologies are supported SLI up to
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three-way now NVIDIA yeah they have cards that support four-way but they're
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really not talking about four-way SLI anymore it really doesn't scale very
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well two-way SLI scales great on this card three-way SLI is going to scale
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okay at higher resolutions four-way SLI tends to not scale that much so it does
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support all the SLI whichever ones you want it has a six pin and 8 Pin power
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adapter the TDP of this card is slightly higher than the GTX 680 that it comes in
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and replaces but don't worry because the price is lower which is what going to
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make this card so attractive is that not only do you get that GTX 680 performance
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but I've seen a lot of speculation that from the leaked pictures of GTX 670 that
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NVIDIA was building not quite the same
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level of quality of a cooler that they put on the Titan and the 780 with its
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aluminum construction and polycarbonate window on the aluminum fins with the
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noise dampened fan that's actually got an updated profile that makes the car
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not only run fast but also incred ibly quietly and illuminated GeForce GTX logo
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on the top all of that is false this features the same level of quality of
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cool cool the same cool cooler that has
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a high level of quality that's what I meant to say and it looks absolutely
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outstanding in your rig and now you can I mean I have heard people buy Titans
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because they love the way it looks now you can get the look and a lot of the
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performance for a significantly lower cost with that said no this card is not
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gk10 based it is not in the same league as Titan and GTX 780 but what it does do
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is it comes in an attractive price point and is able to deliver better
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performance than the outgoing GTX 680 particularly at higher resolutions
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you've got full support for NVIDIA 3D Vision surround allowing you to have up
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to three plus one displays so three and Surround with one auxiliary display and
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of course stereo 3D on supported 3D Vision enabled monitors PCI Express 3.0
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interface is down here on the bottom and most of the exhaust from this card is
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going to go out the back of your case while some of it will go out these fins
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here and that's going to help cool some of the voltage regulation modules on the
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PCB itself I think that pretty much does it for my GTX 770 overview don't forget
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to check out my review content for this card as well where we walk you through
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the nitty-gritty of its performance thanks for watching and don't forget to
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