Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon Gaming Graphics Card Benchmark Showdown Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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3-month subscription to iracing.com available from participating retailers
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click the link in the video description for more details now y'all complained
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about my laboratory coat that I've done more before but I have decided to
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completely change things up if you don't want to see the lab code in these videos
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about graphics card showdowns then you don't have to anymore so let's get ready
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to have a head-to-head showdown between the Green Team and the red team in Far
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Cry 3 blood Dragon so 100 bucks 200 bucks 300 bucks and 400 bucks are the
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price points that we'll be looking at to tell you what gives you the best
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performance in Far Cry 3 blood
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Dragon now we're done loaded up our this here test bench with that their 3960x at
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4 gahz uh We've also got 16 gigs of DDR3
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RAM a p9x 79 Deluxe as well as a 120 gig
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boot SSD 1,000 watt antech power Supply
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and this is our test bench we use for all graphics cards we've also got of
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course our h100 keeping that overcloud CPU cool throughout our testing the
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graphics cards as you might well imagine do vary
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somewhat now for our benchmarks we use an ingame run only no pre canned
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benchmarks no prefabricated numbers
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nothing like that so uh you can definitely click here to check out
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Slick's benchmarking guide tutorial for far Cry 3 blood Dragon and what we've
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got here is as you can see eight graphics cards well 7 + 1 is eight so
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we've got the 650 versus the 7770 the 660 versus the 7870 the 660 Ti versus
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the 7970 and the 670 versus the 7970
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which is actually over there now the reason we've gone with that is we take
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the second lowest price card at nc.com and that is where we get our
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price reference from if in your region the pricing is different then you'll
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have to take the results with a grain of salt we overclock every card and you can
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check out the overclocked video card settings that we use in our videos in
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the graph that is actually in the video description and I think the only thing
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left now is to find out whether these graphics cards perform or whether we're
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going to have to get the performance out of these graphics
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cards we usually end up going a little over $100 so the 7770 is around $10 5
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and the GTX 650 is around 120 however in
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spite of the only 5% price difference between these two cards the 7770
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outperforms the other card by almost 30%
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making it definitely the uh the better option for Far Cry 3 blood Dragon the
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reason we go over on the two on the $100 price point is because you really
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shouldn't be buying a card of a lower tier than about a 7770 if you want to
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get good value for your dollar next up we've got the 660 versus the 7870 and
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this one we had a price difference of only about 2% whereas the performance
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difference was about 20% going with the 7870 versus the 660 not to mention that
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if you bought a 7870 a little while ago uh that you'll be getting a copy of Far
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Cry 3 blood Dragon for free in the mail anyway if you got the Far Cry 3 never
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settle bundle any never settle bundle any never settle bundle excuse me the
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7950 and the GTX 660 Ti are actually
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very close the $950 wasn't priced as aggressively as it usually is when we do
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these comparisons but we always take current pricing because we never know
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what's affecting pricing Trends in the market so the price difference was about
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10% and the performance difference was about 10% so these cards stacked up
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pretty much exactly the same from a price to Performance ratio standpoint
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670 versus 7970 now the 670 really
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didn't scale beyond the 660 Ti for us which would indicate that there wasn't
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much benefit to the additional memory
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bandwidth as well as the other benefits that make the 670 faster so there you go
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it was bottlenecked somewhere else along the line but the 7970 improves
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performance a little bit over the 7950 and is able to achieve about a 177%
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performance difference between it and the GTX 670 in spite of the only 6%
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difference in price so that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out
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our Far Cry 3 blood Dragon performance Showdown with these graphics cards uh oh
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I should mention men the driver revisions we were using so we for NVIDIA
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we were using 314.22 and for AMD we were using 13.4
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drivers don't forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and
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