NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 Review: The $400 Fight
by Ryan Smith on May 30, 2013 9:00 AM ESTFar Cry 3
The next game in our benchmark suite is Far Cry 3, Ubisoft’s island-jungle action game. A lot like our other jungle game Crysis, Far Cry 3 can be quite tough on GPUs, especially with MSAA and improved alpha-to-coverage checking thrown into the mix. On the other hand it’s still a bit of a pig on the CPU side, and seemingly inexplicably we’ve found that it doesn’t play well with HyperThreading on our testbed, making this the only game we’ve ever had to disable HT for to maximize our framerates.
With Far Cry 3 we shift to a set of games that historically favor NVIDIA’s cards, and as it turns out benefit the GTX 770 to a pretty big degree. At 2560 we’re looking at a 13% advantage over the 7970GE, rising to 17% at 1920 without MSAA. The GTX 680 and GTX 570 are also summarily put in their place, with the GTX 770 gaining on them by 11% and 85% respectively.
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Catalina588 - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
Folding@Home Big-Time Discrepancy in reviewsCan anyone explain the material differences between this review's Compute Results for Folding@Home and the same FAHbench run at Tom's Hardware?
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-77...
Since FAHbench is self-contained -- load and go -- it's hard to figure how the results could be so different.
Ryan Smith - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
We're using a newer version of the benchmark, 1.2. FAHBench 1.2 has some very big performance optimizations that aren't in 1.1x.kyuu - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
Not bad, but I think I'd still just find a 7970 with a good cooler on sale and overclock the crap out of it if I was looking to buy a high-end GPU.Lt_dan - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
People should be looking at other websites. This review is showing scores that don't even make sense. The 7970, on bf3, has the same score as tomshardware's review of the 680, which was done over the year ago.azixtgo - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
nobody cares. If this were ~$300 I'd seriously consider it. But getting a 7950 for ~$300 along with 4 quality games just makes me not care about a $400 card thats already out of my budget anyway. Nvidia always keeps their best just too high. At 400 its competing in value against a card with more to offer. They don't have the concept of winning by pricing right, but I guess they've never had to go there like AMD did.Razorbak86 - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
Just because YOU don't care, doesn't mean that NOBODY cares. Please don't attempt to speak for the rest of us.agentwax - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
Hmm recently built a system with gigabyte 670 and was looking to go sli in the near future. Upon reading this review I'm second guessing. Should I get a second 670 in a few months and go sli Or a 770 and go sli some time around christmas? Very happy with temps and noise on gigabyte wind force 670thunderising - Friday, May 31, 2013 - link
Now it's time for a HD 7970 GHZ GHZ MEGA GHZ edition with faster clocks and a new driver release for improved performance. HeheheAt least that would be better than a HD8950 = HD 7970 with faster clock speeds.
evolucion8 - Friday, May 31, 2013 - link
That is not correct. The HD 7970 has a bigger bus, but being 28nm instead of 40nm like the HD 6970 means that the HD 7970 was able to achieve great performance gains by being 354mm2 compared to the HD 6970 which is around 389mm2colonelclaw - Friday, May 31, 2013 - link
Is anyone else as disappointed as I am about pricing all the way across the board with this new generation? As an owner of a GTX580 I was thinking it's about time for an upgrade, but all these high end cards look 100 $/£/€ overpriced to me. I wasn't happy about paying £450 for my 580 but there's no way in hell I'm prepared to pay £550 for the 780, and the 770 isn't a big enough upgrade to interest me.I'm more than a little suspicious that AMD and NVidia are agreeing on price points in order to make larger profits. Having just 2 companies in a market sector makes it pretty easy for them to do this.