NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 Review: The $400 Fight
by Ryan Smith on May 30, 2013 9:00 AM ESTCrysis: Warhead
Up next is our legacy title for 2013, Crysis: Warhead. The stand-alone expansion to 2007’s Crysis, at over 4 years old Crysis: Warhead can still beat most systems down. Crysis was intended to be future-looking as far as performance and visual quality goes, and it has clearly achieved that. We’ve only finally reached the point where single-GPU cards have come out that can hit 60fps at 1920 with 4xAA.
Crysis: Warhead is another title that generally favors AMD cards, to the GTX 770’s detriment. Not that anyone does particularly well at 2560, while at 1920 with Enthusiast quality we see the GTX 770 trailing the 7970 by a couple of frames per second, and the 7970GE by several more (13%). The extra memory bandwidth is helping the GTX 770 to some extent here, pushing it above the GTX 680 by 7%, but it’s not a title GK104 excels at, with the GTX 770 only surpassing the GTX 570 by 57%.
Minimum framerates are generally a repeat of our average framerates here, leading to the GTX 770 falling behind both AMD cards. Even the gains over the GTX 570 aren’t very good, with just a 39% improvement at 1920.
Facebook
Twitter
RSS
117 Comments
View All Comments
mapesdhs - Friday, May 31, 2013 - link
I've just bought two 3GB 580s for 450 UKP total, will be benching them next week
single & SLI. If you're interested in the results, let me know by PM/email (or Google
"SGI Ian" to find my contact page) and I'll send you the info links once the tests are
done. I'll be testing with 3DMark06, Vantage, 3DMark11, Firestrike, Call of Juarez,
Stalker COP, X3TC, PT Boats, Far Cry 3, and all 4 Unigines (Sanctuary, Tropics,
Heaven and Valley). If I'm reading reviews correctly, two 580s SLI should beat a 780.
If your existing 580 is a 1.5GB card, note you can get a 2nd one off eBay these days
for typically less than 150 UKP. I've won two this month, a Zotac card for 123 UKP
(using it to type this post) and an EVGA card for 142 UKP.
And yes, I agree, the new gen card pricing is kinda nuts. Anyone would think
we haven't had a recession. I doubt peoples' budgets have suddenly become
30% higher (only reason I could buy some is I sold some of my other stuff to
cover the cost). The two 3GB 580s I bought were in total 100 UKP less than the
cheapest 780 from the same seller (I probably could have eventually obtained
two 3GB 580s off eBay, but decided the chance to get them from a proper
retailer right now with warranty, etc. was too good to pass up).
Ian.
colonelclaw - Saturday, June 1, 2013 - link
Thanks for the reply, Ian. For some reason I'd totally forgotten about SLI. I'd be very interested to see the results of a 580 SLI vs. 780, and I suspect a few other readers here would too. One thing, how closely matched do the two cards have to be? Exactly the same model? Just the same clock speeds? Or is it more forgiving? I can't imagine it would be very easy to track down a 2nd identical 580, which is the reason I ask. If any Anand readers with knowledge of SLIing can share their experiences that would be great.shompa - Friday, May 31, 2013 - link
Memory... How many games are 64bit? = How many games needs more then 4gig memory? Today zero. It was even more fun when most PCs had BIOS. It cant even address that much graphic memory.Maybe 64bit gaming will be mainstream in a year? I don't know. I sure seems to take its time. I have used 64 bit in my work since 1995 (real computers) and 64bit on my mac since 2002. (OSX 10.27 Smeagol). Gaming/Windows takes its time since Windows don't have smart software packaging. (real computers have the same binary for 32/64bit, different languages and even different architectures. I loved when Apple had "fat binaries" and everything could run on both PPC and X86. Gives the customer a choice of architecture.)
SymphonyX7 - Friday, May 31, 2013 - link
Looks more like a GTX 680 Plus. The gains over the year-old GTX 680 and HD 7970 Ghz edition are measly and power efficiency was thrown in as an afterthought.I'll wait for the HD 8950 and HD 8970 or whatever they'll call it before I make a decision. I suppose it's worth the wait considering what implications the new PS4 and Xbox One will have on game development and their impact on PC ports performance-wise.
kwrzesien - Monday, June 24, 2013 - link
4GB models have appeared at Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...Colin.B - Tuesday, July 9, 2013 - link
I just ordered the Gigabyte GTX 770, sold one of my 660 SCs for 160 dollars and am returning the one I just bought. Will I see a big performance drop from 660 SLI to the 770 at 2560x1440? I hope I made the right choice :/