Which is the Best Gaming Platform for the Fastest Single GPU Graphics Card? Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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NVIDIA welcome to another lonus tech tips video this video was intended to be
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part of our GeForce GTX Titan coverage
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so here's our Titan GPU on our test bench or well one of our test benches
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more on that in a moment this is the fastest single GPU graphics card in the
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world and it was intended to be kind of like what's the best uh the best
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platform pairing for the Titan GPU but
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we went a little bit beyond that and took it to be more of a uh a
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cross-section of games from our test PL from our test Suite where we went okay
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well let's actually just look at a bunch of different platforms so we took our
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x79 platform here so this is with a 3960x at 4 GHz which is probably a
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little bit conservative for that one um and then we ran that with 16 gigs of RAM
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so four dims running in Quad Channel then we took our um FX or 990 FX
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platform with an 8350 at 4.6 gz this one
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runs with just 8 gigs so these are running so everything's running with um
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all channels populated with one dim okay so this one's running with 8 gigs in
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dual Channel then we grabbed a
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3770k with 8 gigs of memory okay and
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that one's clocked at 4.4 GHz we're going for overclocks here remember all
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of our stuff's overclocked the Titan's overclocked everything's overclocked
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we're going for overclocks that we believe are going to be attainable for
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95 to 98 % of the people who own this Hardware so you guys have a realistic
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idea of what you can expect so this one's at 4.4 GHz then we grabbed an
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older platform just to represent anyone running a Bloomfield or Lindfield CPU so
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this is an 875k and we ran that one with 8 gigs of
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RAM at what was it 3.8 or something like that I don't remember what we ran it at
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but it's on our graphs so don't worry too much about it so we took four
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different platforms and ran our entire game test Suite with the Titan now we
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are planning to rerun um a slightly different test 3570k versus
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8350 and just those two CPUs with a more
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realistic GPU like a 660 Ti and then uh
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but that'll be a separate video so this is more like we were doing this work
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anyway for the Titan launch so we figured let's take a bunch of platforms
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let's see which one game's the best this is running 1080p for all the different
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games and here is our first game so um
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actually we don't have to stare at the screen because we can overlay these graphs but the 3960x takes the top of
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the charts in Crisis 3 and this makes sense now what we've heard is that the
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8350 actually beats the 3570k but we haven't tested that yet because Crisis 3
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seems to really benefit from multi-or and we do see that in spite of the fact
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that the 3960x has lower instructions per clock than a
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3770k in spite of the fact that it's actually clocked 10% lower it performs
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equally and we can only attribute that to the fact that it has two more
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physical cores and two more virtual cores the 87 75k also performs quite
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well in this game keeping up with the 8350 and we can attribute that to the
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fact that it has hyperthreading so the 3770k beats out the
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8350 but that might only be because of hyperthreading and I'm really excited to
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check out the 3570 which is quad core no hyperthreading against AMD's 8 core FX
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Flagship moving along to Far Cry 3 Far Cry 3 seems to really benefit from
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single-threaded performance so the 3770k
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at 4.4 GHz cleans up here beating out the 3960x the 8350 and the significantly
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older now 875k which is starting to really show its age in terms of gaming
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performance in this particular game now our Skyrim is running with 18 different
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mods from the Steam Workshop so it's not really a stock Skyrim so you're going to
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see more separation than you would if you're running at stock this one seems
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to benefit from mostly just having well
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uh High clock speeds and doesn't get much of a benefit at all from the8 cores
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of the 8350 which you can see performs about the same as a much older quad core
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875k so this one is not optimized for multiple cores you need higher
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instructions per clock and that's what we get on the 3770k and
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3960x Battlefield 3 at the ultra presets now Battlefield 3 is regarded as one of
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those games that does benefit from multi-threading but it doesn't seem to
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favor the AMD platform so all of our hyperthreading enabled processors as
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well as our faster hyperthreading enabled processors so our 3770k and our
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3960x uh performs significantly better in Battlefield 3 than the 8350 however
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it should be noted that the scale on this graph is a little bit funny so I'll
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have to let slick know before he makes graphs like this next time that this
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should start at zero so the difference in performance between these processors
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isn't actually as dramatic as it looks it's it's okay he says he fixed it
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before but apparently fix that he'll fix it before
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we uh you can download all these graphs from the link in the video description
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and he'll fix it before uploading it so you guys will see the correct version in
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the uh in the in the download there Metro 2033 the 3960x this is kind of
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bizarre it just tanks in this one and we're not really sure why that happened
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but this game didn't like this platform that much the 3770k cleans up the 8350
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shows its shows its strength so Metro 33 does seem to benefit from the additional
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cores but then it doesn't benefit from the additional cor so it might just be
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an AMD architectural thing that this game likes but
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uh yeah that's pretty much all we have to say about that and then Witcher 2 has
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everything performing actually pretty closely so AMD brings up the rear but
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even that it's only about 10% slower than the flagship 3960x from Intel and
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the 3770k which is the fastest Ivy Bridge processor right now and that's
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pretty much the end of the slideshow so hopefully this has been somewhat enlightening and you guys uh can sort of
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see why we actually sort of ran it hope
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