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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 TX 788 2560 by 1440 really was an emotional time for me because I used to run these benchmarks on my 30 inch Samsung monitor which my cat destroyed several months ago so we've obtained a new monitor which is 2560 by 1440 instead of 2560 by 1600 and we are back to the races benchmarking graphics cards and telling you at high resolutions greater than 1080p what is the best card for your dollar or in the case of something like a gtx titan thousand dollars now i'm going to get through this methodology stuff as quickly as i can we use a thirty nine sixty x overclock to four gigahertz cooled by in each 100 we use a p9 x79 deluxe motherboard we use an antique high current pro thousand watt a 128 gig SSD and we use a variety of graphics cards obviously for our testing we're running on windows 7 and we are running the latest beta drivers for both AMD and NVIDIA we run all graphics cards overclocked because overclocking is free I guess a few times not worth anything but it really doesn't take that long because all you have to do is check out the overclocking settings we're using in the graph or spreadsheet that's below than the video description and that will give you some idea where to start so it really shouldn't take you very long at all we're testing our games using fraps and because we're not doing any dual GPU or triple GPU setups it should still fairly be a fairly accurate representation of the performance of the cards however it should be noted that particularly if you're running SLI or crossfire configurations it's important to use a frame capture setup to get the most realistic possible results now all of our games are not only being run at high resolutions but also at very high detail settings because well the justification for it is if you're going to spend $300 on a graphics card you better be running at high details in this one we see what's going to become a recurring theme and that is that memory bandwidth and Men riah mount seem to be holding back the 660ti and the gtx 680 this is something we did not observe in our 1080p benchmarks so there is a very clear division where tighten and 780 are up here seven nine 70 and 79 50 are here and 680 and 660ti are trailing at the bottom in Tomb Raider 2013 it really is men against boys with the Titan and the GTX 780 coming out on top however of course they are priced much higher than the cards that they are now replacing from Nvidia zone lineup and the 79 fifty and seventy nine seventy Metro last light is a game that actually kind of creamed all of these cards even the GTX Titan only ran at just over 20 FPS average however I mean okay so we learned that you need multiple gk110 GPUs in order to run this game smoothly at 2560 by 1440 we also learned that sometimes it's not feasible on current generation hardware to turn games up to the very maximum but with all that said we still do see a clear difference in performance between that top-tier GPUs the mid tier where those AMD cards are benefiting from their extra memory bandwidth and extra memory and then the older being phased out 600 series of GeForce graphics cards I'm going to do Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon together because even though the performance in these two games is quite different with Far Cry 3 being much more demanding due to the different graphical style the way that the cards are segmented against each other in terms of performance is very similar and this is one of the ones where and I mean NVIDIA is quoting around a 35% improvement on average going from a 680 to a 780 and this one we see that figure just destroyed at 2560 by 1440 a GTX 780 is going to give you almost double the performance of the 680 card that it's replacing and almost double the performance of something from the competing red team such as a 79 70 it does cost significantly more than a 79 70 but there you have it if you are a far cry 3 aficionado guys the 780 is worth a look see if you want to play at high resolutions let's wrap it up with the classic but candid run Crysis 3 and the answer is yes the GTX 780 destroys its predecessor in Crysis 3 and we can attribute this in all likelihood to the fact that it has 50% more CUDA cores 50 percent wider memory bus and 50% more ram giving it just 50% more muscle overall it is a true replacement for the 680 in this case and yeah again if you're a Crysis 3 lover then the 780 is definitely worth a look it is a significantly more powerful GPU with its Titan DNA and really much closer to Titan performance than anything else and of course it's much lower price point compared to the GTX Titan now the conclusion isn't really as cut and dried as this is the best-performing GTX numbered series card so it's pretty much the one to buy however it's pretty clear that if you were shopping for a Titan the 780 is definitely worth having a look at it has most of the performance of a Titan particularly after you overclock it and comes in at a much lower price point it's an obvious successor for the GTX 680 which looks distinctly last generation in terms of its performance compared to the 780 but things get a little bit muddier when you consider that something like a 79 70 from the red team does offer up a lot of the performance that you'll need to run games at medium to high settings even at high resolutions it has three gigs of memory and because of the never settle bundle it comes with a bunch of really cool games whereas Nvidia cards right now are limited to just coming with Mitch for last light but then of course there's the intangibles to weigh in such as the fact that you can actually upgrade these GPUs to multi-gpu configurations in SLI and get a tangible noticeable performance improvement there's the fact that they run quieter there's the fact that GeForce experience is going to make things a little bit more turnkey so you don't have to go in and tweak things and tune them and remember to download your latest drivers which honestly for most of the people watching this video right now it's probably not a factor but if you're recommending a to someone who is an avid gamer but not a hardware enthusiast might be something to consider so there you have it guys thank you for checking out the Linus tech tips 2560 by 1440 performance review of the geforce gtx 780 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos