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this video is brought to you by our trusted graphics partner Nvidia welcome to another Linus tech tips video this video was intended to be part of our GeForce GTX Titan coverage so here's our Titan GPU on our test bench or well one of our test benches more on that in a moment this is the fastest single GPU graphics card in the world and it was intended to be kind of like what's the best the best platform pairing for the Titan GPU but we went a little bit beyond that and took it to be more of a a cross section of games from our test platform our test suite where we went okay well let's actually just look at a bunch of different platforms so we took our X 79 platform here so this is with a 39 60 xf 4 gigahertz which is probably a little bit conservative for that one and then we ran that with 16 gigs of ram so 4 dims running in quad-channel then we took our FX our 99th EFX platform with an 83 50 on 4.6 gigahertz this one runs with just 8 gigs so these are running so everything's running with all channels populated with one dim ok so this one's running with 8 gigs and dual channel then we grab a 3770k with 8 gigs of memory ok and that one's clocked at 4.4 gigahertz we're going for overclocks here remember all of our stuffs overclock the titans overclocked everything's overclocked we're going for over clocks that we believe are gonna be attainable for 95 to 98% of the people who own this hardware so you guys have a realistic idea of what you can expect so this one's at 4.4 gigahertz then we grabbed an older platform just to represent anyone running a bloomfield or Linfield cpu so this is an 8 75 K and we ran that one with 8 gigs of ram at what was it 3.8 or something like that I don't remember what we ran it at but it's on our graph so don't worry too much about it so we took four different platforms and ran our entire game test suite with the Titan now we are planning to rerun a slightly different test 3570 K versus 8350 and just those two CPUs with a more realistic GPU like a 660ti and then but that'll be a separate video so this is more like we were doing this work anyway for the Titan launch so we figured let's take a bunch of platforms let's see which one games the best this is running 1080p for all the different games and here is our first game so actually we don't have to stare at the screen because we can overlay these graphs but the 3960 x takes the top of the charts in Crysis 3 and this makes sense now what we've heard is that the 8350 actually beats 435 70 K but we haven't tested that yet because Crysis 3 seems to really benefit from multi-course and we do see that in spite of the fact that the 39 60 X has lower instructions per clock than a 3770k in spite of the fact that it's actually clocked 10 percent lower it performs equally and we can only attribute that to the fact that it has two more physical course and two more virtual course the 875 K also performs quite well in this game keeping up with the 80 350 and we can attribute that to the fact that it has hyper-threading so the 3770k beats out the 83 50 but that might only be because of hyper threading and I'm really excited to check out the 35 70 which is quad-core no hyper threading against AMD's 8 core FX flagship moving along to Far Cry 3 Far Cry 3 seems to really benefit from single-threaded performance so the 3770k at 4.4 gigahertz cleans up here beating out the 39 60 X the 80 350 and the significantly older now 875 K which is starting to really show its age in terms of gaming performance in this particular game now our skyrim is running with 18 different mods from the Steam Workshop so it's not really a stock Skyrim so you're gonna see more separation than you would if you're running at stock this one seems to benefit from mostly just having well high clock speeds and doesn't get much of a benefit at all from the 8 cores of the 8350 which you can see performs about the same as a much older quad core 875 K so this one is not optimized for multiple courts you need higher instructions per clock and that's what we get on the 3770k and 39 60 X battlefield 3 at the ultra presets now battlefield 3 is regarded as one of those games that does benefit from multi-threading but it doesn't seem to favor the AMD platform so all of our hyper threading enabled processors as well our faster hyper-threading enabled processors so our 3770k in our 3960 axe performs significantly better in battlefield 3 then the 8350 however it should be noted that the scale on this graph is a little bit funny so I'll have to let slick know before he makes graphs like this next time that this should start at zero so the difference in performance between these processors isn't actually as dramatic as it looks it's okay he says he fixed it before but apparently oh oh he'll fix it before we you can download all these graphs from the link in the video description and he'll fix it before uploading it so you guys will see the correct version in the in the download there Metro 2033 the 3960 X this is kind of bizarre it just tanks in this one and we're not really sure why that happened but this game didn't like this platform that much the 3770k cleans up the 8350 shows it shows it strength so Metro 33 does seem to benefit from the additional cores but then it doesn't benefit from the additional core so it might just be an AMD architectural thing that this game likes but yeah pretty much all of you say about that and then witcher 2 has everything performing actually pretty closely so AMD brings up the rear but even that's only about 10% slower than the flagship 3960 x from Intel and the 3770k which is the fastest Ivy Bridge processor right now and that's pretty much the end of the slideshow so hopefully this has been somewhat enlightening and you guys can sort of see why we actually sort of ran it hopefully it was interesting thanks for checking out this video on - tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos make sure that you are subscribed