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what's up guys welcome back to the channel today's video is going to be very rushed and haphazardly thrown together because I am out of time I have a lot of things going on right now and very little time to do them all in actually I'm not gonna be able to make another video until five days from now because I've got a family thing that's in the mountains there's no Wi-Fi there I don't know why I agreed to it and then after that I have to hop on a plane and go to San Francisco to cover a press event puts in video I don't know if I can mention that adds probably fine and then I have to prepare for the rising launch but before all of that happens I just needed to squeeze one video out for you guys to watch this week so here it is today I'm going to be benchmarking and testing out the first video card I ever purchased this is the GTX 670 direct cu2 from Asus and yes I know some of you guys have video cards they're probably older than I am I admit I did get into the PC game quite late but that's because I just never really had anyone around in my growing up years to show me the light and show me the way until Paul came around he was like come to me son and I was like yes master okay then we're getting way out of hand so getting back on task here the 600 series from Nvidia is based on the Kepler architecture and this is when GPU boost 1.0 was actually introduced for the first time very exciting when it first debuted so today I'm going to be seeing if this thing still has any horsepower left in it for today's modern triple-a games such as doom GTA 5 even though GTA 5 is a little bit older it's still fairly relevant in terms of how taxing it is on the hardware so we're going to be putting it to the test today I'm gonna be throwing it on a my testbed which actually is rocking to 69 hundred K right now overclocked to 4.3 gigahertz and that's just so we don't run into any CPU bottlenecking it's not the fastest instructions per clock chip I know the 7,700 cable I'll perform it in many cases for gaming however it's probably not going to be a bottleneck when it comes to testing with this guy so that's going to be on a gaming Strix xi9 motherboard with 16 gigs of G no no no Corsair Vengeance lpx at 3000 megahertz and we're rocking a cooler master hyper 212 Evo on top of the CPU with power supply SSD for our boot drive and stuff like that so Windows 10 64 bits latest Windows drivers I'm sorry windows drivers Nvidia drivers wickel know what is it's three seven three seven eight six six is the latest because the current driver at the time of filming so we're gonna be testing this bad boy with all of that hardware right now even think it still works I don't know I honestly haven't tried booting with it before filming this video so this could all be for nothing we might try to power it on and not get any video signal let's find out really quick check this out this thing at a back plate before it was cool hell yeah all right we're going in oh that went in easy that is nice and broken in as Jay likes to say the power plugs you've got 2 6 pins that's any indication of how power efficient things to become the last few generations moment of truth ladies and gentlemen oh wait note we need we need a video cable I remember how to build computers oh crap do we have a display poor yeah we do sweet we're in business we got one DisplayPort one HDMI and two dual link DVIs noise noise do we have a signal give me up done I'm looking good this isn't looking good Oh altered white button to right well in business news I know it would work I wasn't scared at all alright let's go ahead and jump in around here here we probably need a keyboard - all right I've kind of reposition the camera for better viewing pleasure jump into a laugh and I've already got games loaded up on the SSD that we're booting from here so we're I'm just going to use my regular suite of Oh No all right that's a little better I didn't have time to figure out what was going wrong it's probably a driver thing so I just swapped out a different boot drive one that was more recently clean installed and that seems to have done the trick at least for now check out the specs really quick okay so we got the 28 nanometer architecture again that's Kepler and let's compare this you know just briefly to the gtx 1070 for a minute which is 60 nanometers so that's shrunk down quite a bit of course this is the GK 104 GPU 32 ro peas and 112 PM you think we practically doubled that on the ROP front and definitely quite a few more TM use as well the CUDA cores thirteen hundred and forty four there's something like nineteen hundred and something on the GTX 1070 two gigs two gigs of gddr5 remember remember when most video cards in 2011 had had two gigs on them we've got the same bus with a 256 bit and bandwidth of 192 point 3 gigabytes a second core clock is 915 megahertz boosting up to 980 the memory clock of 1502 I forgot to mention TDP on the GTX 670 is 170 watts and compare that to the GTX 1070 at 150 watts back when you consider how much faster the 1070 is just a an indication of how much more power efficient you get when you shrink down that architecture among a number of other things but let's go ahead and jump into overwatch I do have a fraps loaded up as well so we got a frame counter in the top whoop let me change this to the top right corner overlay let's do options let's see 1080 yes we'll start there display base let's go hi all right it's it's putting us at high right now alright so it looks like we're getting around 70 FPS actually it's not moving at all vsync is definitely off I've disabled it both in the game and in the Nvidia control panel but seems to be things be at 70 very very consistent even if I like look into a corner of the room or something or the floor doesn't change but the gameplay is very smooth that's for sure oh Jesus Oh people are so good at this game now alright screw it I don't give a I don't give a I'll kill you no you killed me that's ok alright any rate 70 FPS looks pretty good let's move on to the next game yeah I know I'm leaving my team because I must come back so we we hit a thousand 94 megahertz thanks to our GPU boost 1.0 and we also hit 71 degrees C as our max temperature which isn't too bad of course this is a fairly low powered GPU as far as modern-day graphics cards go these days but that's still pretty nice it's doom time baby so this is a little bit more intensive than overwatch yes yes ultra alright screw it let's just push a few old trap let's see what we can do yep we're getting into 30 we're getting a little a little close to chop Ville actually dipping down to the 20s right now that's no bueno so du monde ultra GTX 670 probably not the best fit go ahead and crank that let's do hi see how that works alright oh that's better now we're in the 40s look like we're dipping in the 20s too much go ahead start some see what happens here when our little friends come out to play are you at Oh bad place to spawn terrible choice alright so game plays not the smoothest but it is playable definitely much more so than when we're running Ultra alright let's see what happens if we do medium and just exactly how that looks alright even even smoother now this is definitely this is this is probably what I would play at medium settings so it does doom on medium which still looks pretty good honestly I will say it's not quite as crispy of course but doesn't really take take you too much out of the experience especially when you get a bit more visual fluidity at play I'm sure during more intensive parts of this game it will dip into the 30s maybe you'll even hit in the 20s once in a while but for the most part I would say doom is very playable on the GTX 670 if you're willing to sacrifice just a bit of graphic fidelity I say we fire up the Metro last light benchmark and this is by no means a new game but it is still very GPU bound it would appear the 920 will do oh I'm going to say medium we'll do medium 4x motions with blah blah tessellation we'll do normal justjust just a little tiny bit of tessellation and then yeah we'll just go ahead and we're unselected all right we're starting out with around 80 fps not too bad of course this is probably the least graphically taxing part of the benchmark nope this part is because now we're at 140 can I see you at 150 no we're going back down again but once the explosion happens and people just start killing each other that's that's when it's when it really brings the GPU to its knees there we go let's see the framerate is you're going to dip of course it is so now we're in the 70s which still well above 60 okay now we're in the 60s not too bad though oh it's loud very loud we're in the forties here that's the lowest I've seen it so far alright see what our average FPS was eighty one point nine frames per second not too shabby now you could probably even get away with high if you really wanted to but again to play it safe I probably stick on medium especially since we were seeing dips into the 40's cranking it to high might might that result in some pretty bad choppiness oh no no we played the GTA 5 we played a good one from the textile are we doing 1080 no imma say eh screw that screw fxaa let's see they're putting this at normal the high setting a couple things we can get away with very high but for the most part I trust those settings let's go ahead wait we think I think vsync is on yes it is they think off all right what do we got Oh up soon as we go out boom wait what yes see this is what I love about gta5 is that it is incredibly demanding on the hardware but it's also a super scalable title so we're getting around 7080 FPS right now the game definitely definitely looks not as crispy as I'm used to but you know what I I much more value the playability than than the eye candy at this point killing people is still just as fun - so if I were to just guess off the top of my head based on the numbers I'm seeing so far I would probably put this card on par with the GTX 1050 TI or something like that where you can get away with you know maybe some high settings on these triple-a titles definitely not ultra in most cases which is generally the case for the 10th of dpi but still very very playable if you did want to play with the big big leagues and enjoy some of these more ambitious games then you certainly can you have to be okay with cranking down the settings oh look it's a ramp hit it oh that's the garbage truck damn it oh you you American toast I go back to my homeland talking major about you are you okay let's move on to our lefty watchdogs - oh gee I'm in 4k that's why I'm getting success via by the way I'm sure you guys already noticed but all the games I've run so far have been at 1920 by 1080 which was actually the resolution this card was pretty much intended for on the day it launched and seems to still be holding up its end of the bargain on that front so we're going to crank this down I think ultra is a little too much for for the GTX 670 here so we're going to do medium alright so now we are cruising and it's around 50 FPS starting out this is the very beginning of the game with no spoiler alerts or anything like that I think this is probably the newest game that we have on today's list and definitely shows this is taxing the the card harder than any other game that we've that we've tried so far and I'm getting effed up right now but that's okay definitely saw some dips into the 30s there and again this is at medium settings so would not try I would not dare go past medium at this rate so yeah definitely playable doesn't look fantastic but you know if you're okay with console level quality then I guess you would be perfectly fine gaming with a GTX 760 in this game as well and I guess that kind of sums up this bit this video here guys I told you it was going to be short and crappy and poorly thrown together so it's a very least you know that when I promise you something I always deliver all right so to sum up really quick I mean from the hour or so that I spent with this thing again didn't do a deep dive into testing it because I didn't strapped for time but honestly I'm pretty impressed with how well it's held up over the last six or so years honestly I wouldn't be opposed to putting it in something like an HT PC or even an entry level gaming rig again I'm kind of equated it to the GTX 1050 or the 1050 Ti in a way but of course much more power hungry however if you can afford the additional wattage and you don't mind it just being an old older card it's still perfectly good in a variety of Triple A games if you're willing again to crank down some of those quality settings and to be honest after shooting this little video I'm kind of curious now to perhaps do a follow-up where I put the GTX 670 against other modern cards within its class I think that might be kind of interesting but of course I have run out of time so I know this video sucks guys I do apologize if you enjoyed it just a little bit go ahead and toss me a like on it and share your support and love in the comments as always but I got a skedaddle so thank you so much for tuning in I do appreciate it I'll be back very soon with a more thorough and high-quality video as opposed to this one and yeah you can bet on that so feel free to subscribe to the channel if you haven't already so you don't miss it have it going guys I'll see y'all in the next one