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this video is brought to you by CM storm preferred choice of mice headsets and mechanical keyboards of curse gaming visit www.samhsa.gov/dtac us a little while to get our hands on this card so we weren't able to get one until msi got us a 77 9000 seed or natto seed or 902 onenote or whatever else it happens to be we overclocked every card we get our hands on anyway and we keep them all within sort of a reasonable overclocking expectation like you could probably get something close to those settings if you follow the usual procedure for overclocking and so yeah we don't really sort of worry too much about any of that so let's start with our overall test platform we've got a 3930k which is overclocked to 4 gigahertz we've got a p9 x79 deluxe motherboard 16 gigs of Kingston HyperX memory a course our H 100 liquid cooler to handle that overclocked 6 core and then Tec hcp thousand watt power supply is 80 + Platinum a 128 gig vertex 4 SSD and last but not least the graphics cards which vary so the one that we have left on here right now I believe is our 7870 Hawk yes that is indeed the card we have so we are going to be using our usual methodologies for all the games you see we're going to put annotations next to them as each game comes up to let you guys know how you can replicate our results so you can take your own hardware and see if you can produce the same sort of benchmark run which you should be able to and you can compare your own hardware to what you're using so without any further ado we're going to launch into our first game so BioShock Infinite is a very new very exciting title and it looks like the 77 90 / formed about 10-12 percent worse than the GTX 650 Ti boost now both of these cards launched at almost the same time the 650 ti boost came in right after the 77 90 had had a great launch and was very disruptive because it wasn't much more expensive it had 2 gigs of ram whereas the stock 77 90 had one however you can get it in to gig configurations and it yeah it wasn't that much more expensive so the 77 90 is kind of like an amped-up 77 70 or a 77 or 78 50 that's been been crippled a little bit you can see it falls right exactly in between those two cards and I mean a little bit under the 650 TI booth so everything performs pretty much exactly where it should we ran all of our tests at 1080p as per our usual procedure especially for cards like this that are intended to be run at 1080p so for far cry 3 we found that the 77 90 performs pretty much right in line with the GTX 650 Ti boost this makes sense I mean this I consider a win for the 77 90 because it's only a one gig card and because it did manage to perform the same and you can see that we've taken cards the next cards up and the next cards down from both the green and the red team so you can see how those compare the 7770 still does quite well only performing about 20% lower than the 77 90 and the 650 really didn't put in put up a very good fight at all in this one for Metro 2033 you see the 7770 looks really good the 77 90 looks a little bit better than that and the 650 ti boost looks a little bit better than that which is pretty much exactly where we'd expect them to fall however we can still kind of call this a win for the 77 90 because the 650 ti boost it doesn't perform better enough to justify its additional cost with that said the 650 ti boost only really gets the benefit from that extra memory which does cost more to manufacture when you actually require it so when the textures of the game fill up one gig v ran and can overflow it to the point where it'll cripple that card's performance in witcher 2 we saw what may be an example of that where the 77 9 you really didn't perform that much better than a 77 70 only about 10% whereas the 650 ti boost pulled out significantly away from both of them by about 15% but again hard to say how much of that is the actual power of the GPU and how much is the additional V ran the 650 really trailed in this one in the 77 70 put up a pretty good fight finally our last game is Crysis 3 but can it run Crysis and the answer is yes it's it's pretty much exactly where it belongs within the product stack in this one and there are no surprises there so what does all this mean well depending on your budget if you want to spend 150 dollars plus or minus get a seventy seven ninety if you wanted to spend a little bit more than that maybe about 175 bucks you can get a 650 TI boost both of them are an excellent value and if you wanted to spend even less than that the 7770 continues to be our light weight champion at only around 120 bucks and giving you most of the performance of the next tier up of cards and much better than what the Green Team has to put forward at that price point which was the GTX 650 at 115 dollars now we take all of our pricing as the second lowest price on NCI XCOM to give you guys some ideas so if you kind of go oh well the retailer near me these prices I'll go okay yes they do that's fine but that's not our methodology for taking pricing and comparing these cards so in conclusion the 77 90 offers up not much in terms of surprises it does support eyefinity it does have excellent power efficiency as well as quiet operation and you get what you pay for thanks for checking out this video on Linus tech tips and as always don't forget to subscribe for more boxing reviews and other computer videos