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welcome to our Tomb Raider not the old Tomb Raider the new tomb Raider that has the exact same title as the old Tomb Raider welcome to our Tomb Raider GPU showdown performance guide we are gonna be taking four different price points and comparing cards from the green team and the red team and letting you guys know which one is the best for your hard-earned dollar in this particular game new Tomb Raider not old Tomb Raider now as always we're gonna start with a look at our test bench we have a 39 60 X at 4 gigahertz so it's an its overclocked but quite frankly a 3770k or 35 70 K is gonna perform better than that once you overclock it to the max anyhow 16 gigs of Kingston HyperX memory in ASU's p 9 X 79 deluxe we obviously swap out the graphics cards we've got an antique high current Pro 1000 watt power supply 128 gig SSD for our boot drive and it's all cooled by a corsair h 100 now since the CPU is overclocked and because everyone in their dog tests graphics cards at their stock speeds we overclocked every graphics card on our test bench because we think you guys should be overclocking your graphics cards too and we want to represent what you will be able to achieve with your card so we're going for fairly realistic overclocks on our cards and you can check out the annotation if you want to see exactly what settings we're running so you can try and replicate them on your own cards we are not using the built-in benchmark for Tomb Raider we are actually using a 2-minute run through the same way that we normally do and if you want to check out our two-minute run-through you can follow along with slicks testing methodology video which he creates every time we do one of these show downs and you can benchmark your system against ours now while we understand the importance of rating graphics cards based on frame times as opposed to just frame rates we don't have the equipment yet to do that so we're sticking with our old methodology of using fraps to record frame rates and reporting the results it may not be perfect but it's as good as anything anyone else has been recording for the last 5 years anyway so hopefully it still gives you some guidance in terms of how these cards compare to each other in our hundred dollar price range we've got the 77 70 and the GTX 650 now these cards were run at ultimate which is the same settings we ran everything else at and if you think about that for a moment a hundred dollar card 400 dollar card the same settings is quite possible you're going to end up with a situation where it's not really even playable on these cards the 77 70 in particular did not perform very well on ultimate however because the both of these cards just tanked with tress-fx on we decided to run at Ultra instead of ultimate just to give you guys a look at what you might actually be playing at so the only real difference between ultra and ultimate is that ultra does not have tress-fx which is the realistic hair simulation that's going on in this game the funny thing is tress-fx is an AMD technology but it actually runs better on the 650 than the 77 70 even though even though neither of them are playable at all so let's move into our next price bracket which is about two hundred dollars so our six sixty is about 29 and our seventy eight seventy is about 239 making them sort of closer to 250 but this is a very good value price point and so that's why we want to bring this up the 7870 did win by about 10 percent versus the 660 so there you go I guess there's not really much else to say because Tomb Raider benchmarked very smoothly other than the hiccups that were encountered on the lower end we're on the lower end cards where with tress-fx it didn't seem to really want to work at all 7950 continues to be a rockstar in our testing in overclocks incredibly well and particularly when it came to minimum frame rates versus the 660ti it performed about 50 percent better on minimums 48 FPS versus 30 FPS on the 660ti so that was a bit of a trouncing because remember guys minimum frame rates are more important to the overall gaming experience than average frame rates necessarily can be in our final price bracket so we've gone $100 $200 $300 and now $400 we've got the GTX 670 and the Radeon 7970 so it's not a gigahertz Edition card but quite frankly it doesn't really matter because it doesn't over card yourself anyway but we see another victory for the red team this time again by about 10% and I guess it makes sense because this is an AMD sort of gaming involved title they are giving it away with their cards in there never bundles or at least they have depending on when you're watching this video and I think that pretty much wraps it up so thank you for checking out this video on tomb raider not old tomb raider new tomb raider don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos