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this video is brought to you by the Corsair obsidian 350d micro ATX case exceptional expansion and cooling flexibility for compact high performance PCs visit Corsair comm / obsidian to learn more welcome to a graphics card dinner theater with your host linus the tech tips guy this video is all about the graphics card that looks exactly like the other graphics cards this is the geforce gtx 770 from nvidia and as you may or may not have noticed based on looking at it or based on what i just said it looks pretty much identical to the gtx titan and the gtx 780 however that is pretty much where the similarities end in terms of performance because this graphics card is based on the GK 104 GPU the same GPU that the GTX 670 and 680 were based on now hold on before you go - hold on stop that means that it's a rebadge it is sort of a rematch but it is an enhanced rebadge it is an updated graphics card so what they've done is they've taken a full fledged GK 104 GPU just like you find on the GTX 680 paired that with seven gigabit per second so seven gigahertz gddr5 memory so faster memory and then they've added some new technology GPU boost 2.0 the updated cooler as you've already seen as well as their new fan profile that makes the card quieter while running cool due to GPU boost - now that's all fine and good but you kind of go well - it looks really expensive how much does it cost actually less than a GTX 680 used - this is coming in to fill the gap that GTX 670 is leaving behind because that card will be going away to be replaced by the gtx 770 without further ado let's get into the performance for using our standard test bench you can check out the specs on the slide that's in front of me right now we're using the latest beta drivers from both the red team and the green team as well as EVGA precision for all of our GeForce overclocking and si afterburner for all of our Radeon overclocking the reason for that is we found that precision when we started our testing at least had better support for GPU core offsets now speaking of GPU core offsets this graphics card uses GPU boost too which means that overclocking is a little bit different if you check out my gtx titan overclocking guide you will know how to overclock the gtx 770 we run all of our cards overclocked and i think what you're going to see is we had a bit of an anomaly that i believe will be smoothed out very very quickly but what you're going to see in our performance testing is that the 770 really didn't separate itself from the gtx 680 in fact it fell behind in some of our tests which was confusing until we looked into how our GPU boost 2 was behaving and it looks like on this particular card it wasn't boosting up very high remember guys GPU boost is a variable thing one card may boost up more than another and the spec is based on typical GPU boost so it looks like once overclocked our 680 had a very favorable core clock whereas our 770 was not boosting up as much or as consistently in spite of the fact that they were being run in a room with the same temperatures so your mileage may vary here but without further ado let's get into the games Metro last light is our first game up and you can tell where the performance comes from in this game it comes from memory bandwidth the top two cards are GTX Titan and GTX 780 and they are so far ahead of everything else about 30 percent faster than anything else that is even trying to run this game next you've got the GTX 770 remember that 7 gigahertz gddr5 that's making a difference in spite of its 256-bit memory bus it still pulls ahead by an ever so small edge against the 79 70 and 79 50 from AMD and then if you look at the 686 70 and 660ti they really fall behind because they are not using the same advanced memory that you find on the 770 in Tomb Raider we once again see GTX Titan and GTX 780 just run away with it then we see a clustering of cards that's all pretty much within margin of error are six 80s in there are seven 70s in there are 79 70s in there are 79 50s in there and only the 670 and the 660ti really fall behind in this particular benchmark in Crysis 3 we're going to see that same pattern again with the Titan that 780 and then everything else except the 660ti where we really see it fall behind compared to the other cards this is becoming a bit of a pattern here and it's probably going to continue in BioShock Infinite same story guys so we see the GTX Titan in GTX 780 really run away with this one with a very tight clustering of pretty much everything else behind them with the 660ti bringing up the rear again due to its more cut down design compared to the 6 70s and 680 and 770 which are all very similar specs at this point in time with the 770 having the best back but once again having that anomaly that we've observed with our particular card running GPU boost once again in Far Cry 3 we see the Titan and the GTX 780 really run away with it and everything else is very very tightly packed within about a 10 percent spread after that with the gtx 660ti really falling away bearing in mind of course that a 660ti is significantly less expensive than most of the other cards that are in that starter that top tier I'm going to combine this last graph with my conclusion because I think this graph pretty much sums it up GTX Titan and GTX 780 are here everything else is here so the GTX 770 is a very evolutionary step forward in terms of performance yes it performs better than a 670 yes it's less expensive than a 680 it looks better it has a more updated feature set and vidi has rolled out GeForce experience which updates your drivers for you as well as gives you recommendations for how to run your games these are all fantastic things that are good it has an illuminated GeForce GTX logo on the top which I can't get over and I love makes your system look awesome it makes you feel good about the purchase it feel solid you know metal aluminum crafted think it's really really nice however the GTX 780 is the one that really looks like the compelling value to me because even though it's extremely expensive we're talking about you know well over $500 graphics card that's the one where you're getting nearly that tightened performance which is the cream of the crop when it comes to a single GPU nothing touches it I mean you've seen from these graphs nothing's even close except the GTX 780 and the GTX 780 costs significantly less than a GTX Titan so a would I go for the gtx 770 or would i pony up for a gtx 780 I think I would personally probably save my pennies and go for the 780 I wouldn't jump all the way up to the Titan because you can see for that extra money you're spending you're not getting that much more of a performance increase but that's that sweet spot right there that the 780 hits then if I didn't get a 780 imight run around and look for maybe a hot deal on a 670 or a 660ti that's quite overclockable or something along those lines if I didn't want to spend that much and save myself a few bucks so the 770 will come into its own I think once those older cards are cleared out because there's always clearance hot deals when a new generation of cards comes in and I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out my 1080p performance review of the GTX 770 don't forget to check out my unboxing as well as my 1440p performance review because I think you guys will be surprised at how that extra memory bandwidth helps this card when you're running at higher resolutions don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos