Gadgetory

for a limited time only by an Intel Core i5 or Core i7 CPU and get a free three-month subscription to iracing.com available from participating retailers click the link in the video description for more details now y'all complained about my laboratory coat that I'm done more before but I have decided to completely change things up if you don't want to see the lab coat in these videos about graphics card showdowns then you don't have to anymore so let's get ready to have a head-to-head showdown between the Green Team and the red team in Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon so 100 bucks 200 bucks 300 bucks and 400 bucks are the price points that we'll be looking at to tell you what gives you the best performance in Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon now we're done loaded up our this here test bench with that there 39 60 X at 4 gigahertz we've also got 16 gigs of ddr3 RAM the p9 X 79 deluxe as well as a 120 gig boot SSD a thousand watt antec power supply and this is our test bench we use for all graphics cards we've also got of course our H 100 keeping that overclocked CPU cool throughout our testing the graphics cards as you might well imagine do vary somewhat now for our benchmarks we use an in-game run only no pre-canned benchmarks no pre fabricated numbers nothing like that so you can definitely click here to check out slicks a benchmarking guide tutorial for far cry 3 Blood Dragon and what we've got here is as you can see 8 graphics cards well 7 plus 1 is 8 so we've got the 650 versus the 7770 the 660 versus the 7870 the 660ti versus the 7970 and the 670 versus the 7970 which is actually over there now the reason we've gone with that is we take the second lowest price card at NCI XCOM and that is where we get our price reference from if in your region the pricing is different then you'll have to take the results with a grain of salt we overclocked every card and you can check out the overclocked video card settings that we use in our videos in the graph that is actually in the video description and I think the only thing left now to find out whether these graphics cards perform or whether we're gonna have to get the performance out of these graphics cards we usually end up going a little over a hundred dollars so the 7770 is around 125 and the GTX 650 is around 120 however in spite of the only 5% price difference between these two cards the 7770 l performs the other card by almost 30% making it definitely the the better option for far cry 3 Blood Dragon the reason we go over on the to it on the $100 price point is because you really shouldn't be buying a card of a lower tier than about a seventy seven seventy if you want to get good value for your dollar next up we've got the 660 versus the seventy eight seventy and this one we had a price difference of only about two percent whereas the performance difference was about twenty percent going with the seventy eight seventy versus the six sixty not to mention that if you bought a seventy eight seventy a little while ago that you will be getting a copy of Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon for free in the mail anyway if you got the Far Cry 3 never settle bundle any never settle bundle excuse me the 79 50 and the gtx 660ti are actually very close the 7950 wasn't priced as aggressively as it usually is when we do these comparisons but we always take current pricing because we never know what's affecting pricing trends in the market so the price difference was about 10% and the performance difference was about 10% so these cards stacked up pretty much exactly the same from a price to performance ratio standpoint 670 versus 7970 now the 670 really didn't scale beyond the 660ti for us which would indicate that there wasn't much benefit to the additional memory bandwidth as well as the other benefits that make the 670 faster so there you go it was bottlenecks somewhere else along the line but the 7970 improves performance a little bit over the 7950 and is able to achieve about a 17 percent performance difference between its and the GTX 670 in spite of the only six percent difference in price so that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out our Far Cry 3 blood dragon perform showdown with these graphics cards oh I should mention the driver revisions we were using so we've foreign video we were using three one four point two two and four AMD we were using thirteen point four drivers don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos where we lay the hammer down and on graphics card performance