GeForce GTX 770 1080p Performance Review
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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1,509 words · ~7 min read
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more welcome to graphics card dinner
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theater with your host lonus the tech
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tips guy this video is all about the graphics
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card that looks exactly like the other graphics cards this is the GeForce GTX
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770 from NVIDIA and as you may or may not have noticed based on looking at it
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or based on what I just said it looks pretty much identical to the GTX Titan
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and the GTX 780 however that is pretty
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much where the similarities end in terms of performance because this graphics
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card is based on the GK 104 GPU the same
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GPU that the GTX 670 and 680 were based
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on now hold on before you go Linus hold on stop that means that it's a rebadge
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it is sort of a rebadge but it is an enhanced rebadge it is an updated
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graphics card so what they've done is they've taken a full fledged gk104 GPU
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just like you find on the GTX 680 paired
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that with 7 gigabit per second so 7 GHz
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gddr5 memory so faster memory and then
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they've added some new technology GPU Boost 2.0 the updated cooler as you've
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already seen as well as their new fan
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profile that makes the card quieter while running cool due to GPU boost 2
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now that's all fine and good but you kind of go well lonus it looks really
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expensive how much does it cost uh actually less than a GTX 680 used to
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this is coming in to fill the Gap that GTX 670 is leaving behind because that
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card will be going away to be replaced by the GTX
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770 without further Ado let's get into the performance we're using our standard
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test bench you can check out the specs on the slide that's in front of me right
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now we're using the latest beta drivers from both the red team and the green
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team as well as EVGA Precision for all
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of our GeForce overclocking and MSI After Burner for all of our radon
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overclocking the reason for that is we found that Precision when we started our
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testing at least had better support for GPU core offsets now speaking of GPU
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core offsets this graphics card uses GPU boost 2 which means that overclocking is
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a little bit different if you check out my GTX Titan overclocking guide you will
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know how to overclock the GTX 770 we run
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all of our cards overclocked and I think what you're going to see is we had a bit
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of an anomaly that I believe will be
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smoothed out very very quickly but what
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you're going to see in our performance testing is that the 770 really didn't
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separate itself from the GTX 680 in fact
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it fell behind in some of our tests which was confusing until we looked into
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how our GPU boost 2 was behaving and it looks like on this particular card it
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wasn't boosting up very high remember guys GPU boost is a variable thing one
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card May boost up more than another and the spec is based on typical GPU boost
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so it looks like once overclocked R 680
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had a very favorable core clock whereas our 770 was not boosting up as much or
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as consistently in spite of the fact that they were being run in a room with
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the same temperatures so your mileage may vary here but without further Ado
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let's get into the games Metro last Light is our first game
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up and you can tell where the performance comes from in this game it
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comes from memory bandwidth the top two cards are GTX Titan and GTX 780 and they
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are so far ahead of everything else about 30% faster than anything else that
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is even trying to run this game next you've got the GTX 770 remember that 7
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GHz gddr5 that's making a difference in
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spite of its 256bit memory bus it still pulls ahead by an ever so small Edge
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against the 7970 and 7950 from AMD and
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then if you look at the 680 670 and 660
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Ti they really fall behind because they're not using the same Advanced
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memory that you find on the 770 in Tomb Raider we once again see GTX
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Titan and gtx780 just run away with it
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then we we see a clustering of cards that's all pretty much within margin of
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error our 680s in there our 770s in there our 797s in there our 7950 is in
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there and only the 670 and the 660 Ti
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really fall behind in this particular Benchmark in Crisis 3 we're going to see
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that same pattern again with the Titan the 780 and then everything else except
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the 660 Ti where we really see it fall behind compared to the other cards this
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is uh becoming a bit of a pattern here and and uh it's probably going to
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continue in BioShock Infinite same story
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guys so we see the GTX Titan and GTX 780
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really run away with this one with a very tight clustering of pretty much
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everything else behind them with the 660ti bringing up the rear again due to
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its more cut down design compared to the
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670s and 680 and 770 which are all very
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similar specs at this point in time with the 7 7 having the best spec but once
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again having that anomaly that we've observed with our particular card
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running GPU boost once again in Far Cry
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3 we see the Titan and the GTX 780
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really run away with it and everything else is very very tightly packed within
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about a 10% spread after that with the GTX 660 Ti really falling away bearing
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in mind of course that a 660 Ti is significantly less expensive than most
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of the other cards that are in in that sarda that top
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tier I'm going to combine this last graph with my conclusion because I think
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this graph pretty much sums it up GTX Titan and GTX 780 are here everything
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else is here so the GTX 770 is a very evolutionary step forward in terms of
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performance yes it performs better than a 670 yes it's less expensive than a 680
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it looks better it has a more updated feature set NVIDIA's rolled out GeForce
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experience which updates your drivers for you as well as gives you recommendations for how to run your
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games these are all fantastic things
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that are good it has an illuminated GeForce GTX logo on the top which I
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can't get over and I love makes your system look awesome it makes you feel
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good about the purchase it feels solid you know metal aluminum crafted thing
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like it's really really nice
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however the GTX 780 is the one that
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really looks like the compelling value to me
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because even though it's extremely expensive we're talking about you know
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well over $500 graphics card that's the
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one where you're getting nearly that Titan performance which is the cream of
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the crop when it comes to a single GPU nothing touches it I mean you've seen
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from these graphs nothing's even close except the gtx780 and the gtx780 costs
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significantly less than a GTX Titan so
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would I go for the GTX 770 or would I
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Pony up for a GTX 780 I think I would personally probably
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save my pennies and go for the 780 I wouldn't jump all the way up to the
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Titan because you can see for that extra money you're spending you're not getting
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that much more of a performance increase but that's that sweet spot right there
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that the 780 hits then if I didn't get a 780 I might run around and look for
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maybe a hot deal on a 670 or a 660 Ti
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that's quite overclockable or something along those lines if I didn't want spend
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that much and save myself a few bucks so the 770 will come into its own I think
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once those older cards are cleared out because there's always clearance hot
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deals when a new generation of cards comes in and I think that pretty much
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wraps it up thank you for checking out my 1080p performance review of the GTX
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770 don't forget to check out my unboxing as well as my 1440p performance
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review because I think you guys will be surprised at how that extra memory
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bandwidth helps this card when you're running at higher resolutions don't
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