GTX 660 Ti vs Radeon HD 7950 Battlefield 3 Multiplayer Showdown Review Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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okay so this is to you guys have been asking me forever for multiplayer
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Battlefield 3 benchmarks and since I suck at video games I'm getting slick to
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handle this for me so he's basically on
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map Firestorm Firestorm thank you and he
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is going to rip along the same path in this Jeep and hope he doesn't die for a
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two minute run he's going to sort of head into some more intensive areas than
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just being out in the desert I hope at some point uh yeah he's heading over to
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like some yeah stuff's going down now see you can see he's going to like smash
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into a car you have to hit that car again next time I hope you know
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that if you can hit the same mine again next time then we're
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okay Slick's trying again he's sort of
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saying that maybe the Jeep wasn't the greatest
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oh no three
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tanks the point of this video is for Battlefield 3 multiplayer users who are
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are want to know whether to get a GTX 660 Ti or what by our Reckoning is the
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most equivalent card the radon HD if I
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can find it 7950 so this guy right here
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so we are just going to be doing a head-to-head showdown of 660 Ti power
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Edition from MSI versus Sapphire 7950 OC
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with the dual fan cooler these are going to be running at their stock overclocked
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settings so we're not overclocking them further but they are going to be running
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at slightly overclocked settings so slick is doing a two-minute run in a
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tank since the Jeep thing didn't work out very well for us in order to give us
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some real gameplay sort
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of uh is that normal under attack under
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attack okay see I haven't played Battlefield
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anything really much at all and he's apparently getting pwned in some way
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maybe he should just do this on foot this time we're going to go in the tank
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for a little bit and then uh Slick's going to get out and just go on foot in
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order to infiltrate the enemy base because we haven't gotten anywhere near
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the enemy base yet we've been in their base apparently the mine was something
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to do with their base he's nodding but I don't believe
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him so fire the cannon like isn't that
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what people do NVIDIA games we're trying to have like gameplay footage
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here or not footage but like you know real world gaming performance of this
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graphics card so we're recording with fraps this is going to be a really long
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video just due to all the epic failures that are in it but uh I don't know
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you're you're probably going to get pwned again here unless you can see see
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you're going to die I'm not going to die you might
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die you're basically dying now no every
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moment you stay alive is one minute closer to death
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okay you killed a guy that's good you got 100 points that's probably more
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points than I have on my Battlefield 3 account so we're going to do two runs
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one with this card one with the other card and we are going to bring you the
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results incidentally this is a very full server so this will give us a realistic
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idea of how our 3930k and these video cards will perform with 16 gigs of RAM
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in Battlefield 3 in a real game if we can ever get the Benchmark done if slick
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can stay alive for two minutes so slick took so long to manage two runs where he
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didn't die that I got food uh if you can
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call that food uh so basically what we concluded is that in Battlefield 3
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multiplayer at 1080p at all Maximum settings Ultra presets is that the GTX
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660 Ti achieves well I don't know if it
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was their goal or I don't know what they were trying to do but at stock speeds it
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comes in and eats the 7950 is lunch
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they're very very close they both had exactly the same minimum FPS in the game
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doing approximately the same run with nice full servers
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and the 660ti is cheaper so there you go
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also you get support for all those NVIDIA Technologies like 3D Vision as
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well as fizx which this game doesn't care about but some of them do such as
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Borderlands 2 or Batman Arkham City or whatever else and I think that pretty
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much wraps up this video so slick do you want to give them a nice good view of
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the graph where you can see the approximately sort of 3% difference in
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performance between the two cards showing you that the 660 Ti is pretty
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cross no I'm just kidding it doesn't work like that but what it does work
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like is results for you guys whoops so slick did finally manage
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to get some benchmarks done and what we discovered is that the 7950 and the 660
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Ti are basically neck and neck when it comes to Battlefield 3 Performance so
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there you go thank you for coming along
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with us on this wild ride of learning which one actually performs better in
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multiplayer you know what I didn't do is I didn't compare these results to our
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single player performance because I've had people complaining bitter to me
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bitterly to me that I only Benchmark singleplayer performance and that
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multiplayer is much more demanding and much more different so the
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7950 was within a couple percentage points and
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the 660 Ti looks like was within a
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couple perc so in future I will continue
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to Benchmark Battlefield 3 using single player and you guys will all like it
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