NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 3D Vision Performance Review Evaluation Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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of course no new GeForce launch would be complete without some 3D vision coverage
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so what I'll be focusing on here is the GTX 670 versus its predecessor
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predecessor predecessor the 570 as well
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as versus its Big Brother the GTX 680 so
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I'll just be looking at in a couple of games I'm not going to go too deep into
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the games on this one so we're just going to do crisis 2 as well as Skyrim
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in a couple games which one delivers the best 3D experience I'll be using all the
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same settings that I used for my regular 1080p performance review which means I'm
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running all these games pretty much maxed out and uh so yeah you see the end
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of my crisis 2 run through there I clearly died because I couldn't really
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do anything without the glasses on but uh yeah stay tuned I'll show you guys
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the performance results as well as um
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yeah that's pretty much it just performance results for this stereoscopic 3D performance evaluation
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I'll be using the same test bench I'm using for my regular review which is a
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Gigabyte x79 ud7 so that's uh up to
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four-way SLI capable motherboard I've got a 3930k overclock to 4 GHz for my
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CPU that's a six core processor with hyperthreading 16 gigs of Kingston 1600
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MHz RAM and a Kronos SSD uh Kronos
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Deluxe SS D for my boot drive and then obviously I'll have a variety of
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different video cards and the h100 keeps the CPU nice and cool at that
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overclock so for Skyrim I'm doing my usual run through so I didn't show this
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in the 1080p performance reviews so I might as well show it now so basically I
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just take a walk around the town I go over to the end of there I stare at that
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fire for a little bit over there and then I walk over here and I come up here
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and around here and you know looking off into the distance a fair bit uh I stare
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at uh these two guards a little bit just
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to make a point of looking at a couple of character models and that is how I
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evaluate Skyrim yes I know this is a bit of an ideal scenario and there's not too
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much in terms of particle effects or tons of characters on the screen but it
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does give me reproducible results that I can easily compare from one card to
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another so it gives us an idea of how they perform relative to each other so
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as you guys will see in a moment when I show you the graph that's on the screen
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right over there the GTX 670 just
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destroys the 570 it's the card that it's
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replacing in 3D gaming performance so crisis 2 is a great game to test in 3D
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because it's pretty much designed from the ground up for it there's very little
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performance
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um hit for enabling 3D sorry guys I'm a
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little slow it's sort of late um there's very little performance hit for enabling
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3D it's a great title to play in 3D other than you know a little bit of uh
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weirdness around the gun it just looks fantastic so you can see here the GTX
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670 is just barely slower than its Big Brother the 680 this card is um just
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yeah it's uncharacteristically close to the
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very very high-end card in spite of the significant difference in price and I'm
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sorry the I forgot to fix these labels but this is min FPS and this is Max FPS
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if you guys weren't already aware so you can see the Min FPS that's where you're
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really going to see the big difference between the 670 and the 570 because this
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is about a 50% Improvement in minimum frames per second which translates to a
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very tangible um tangibly better
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experience when you're playing in 3D The Witcher 2 gives us some very telling
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stats cuz you can see how Kepler has been significantly beefed up compared to
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fery in terms of its stereo 3D performance even in titles that aren't
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you know sort of 3D from the get-go when the when the game developer was
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designing it so you see this the GTX 680 so even if the 670 was about 10% slower
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at 31 minimum and you know 44 Max average
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FPS that is still a 3X plus almost a 4ex
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improvement over the GTX 570 in terms of the minimum frame rates so I ran into
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the same weirdness with Witcher 2 where the GTX 670 outperformed The 680 that I
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did it when I wasn't running in 3D and my hypothesis at this time is that
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because I'm using a newer driver revision that is not yet compatible with
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the 680 so I had to use two different drivers that there are some Witcher two
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performance improvements to be had and we're going to see this number get boosted up in the near future as well so
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thank you for checking out my 3D performance overview I know I only did a
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couple games but the general idea was I just wanted to see how does it compare
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against the previous generation in terms of 3D performance and the answer is very
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favorably and how close can it be to its big brother and the answer is very very
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very close which was true when we weren't running in 3D and is also true
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when we are running in 3D so thank you for checking out this 3D 4 Minutes
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