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today we're going to take a look at the 7850 versus the gtx 660ti in part 2 of the old-school showdown now today we're going to be taking a look at dx12 titles and also some vulcan titles and some of those latest games and we're going to be comparing these two cards head-to-head to see how they perform with not only today's drivers but also in today's games welcome back to check out city this is brian coming to you guys today with part 2 of the video where i'm comparing the old-school 660ti versus the old-school 7850 and not only to see how far they've come in terms of drivers which I did in part one with those old-school titles but also to check at how well they're doing in today's games with also those new AP is both Vulcan and also dx12 and I'm also been using a program to monitor the frame rates and you guys may be surprised with the results so with that being said let's get straight on into the benchmarks then we can analyze what's been going on here so the first thing I will get out of the way with is the overclocks which I did mention in part 1 as well they both received a good 100 megahertz on the core they're roughly the 78 50 I believe the 111 megahertz and also the gtx 660 got like 105 so also the overclocks were very similar so the performance games out of the overclocked would also scale very similar to the results but what we saw this time around with the 660ti was that it was handily beating the 7850 in a lot of these titles especially the really popular tiles if we look at dota 2 for instance it was slaughtering the 7850 by quite a bit Oh quite a lot there however when we changed over to Vulcan in dota 2 we noticed a little increase on the 1750 but also a decrease on the 660ti which I was kind of really surprised with because I thought this API was meant to utilize your graphics hardware better than something like dx9 would in dota 2 so really surprised to see those results in dota 2 especially but when we moved over to doom we kind of saw that the results were not really doing anything for Vulcan on both the 7850 and the 660ti so that really surprised me as well since I've been hearing such good things about Vulcan I know it does have that multi-platform support there but I'm just wondering why it's not really translating into any real gains when we look at the games like doom and especially dota 2 where we kind of would really want those gains since we got the old hardware and we need to extract as many frames as possible out of that hardware as opposed to something new which will handily beat every title absolutely fine so a little bit surprised oh and also not to mention the doom just would not load it all with Vulcan enabled on the 660ti though when it came to ashes of the singularity a very popular dx12 benchmark I noticed that the 7850 just gained practically nothing same with the 660ti both going from dx11 to dx12 there really didn't gain either of these grabs cards any net performance increase the one thing that was interesting about this benchmark was how the 7850 was virtually tying with the 660ti so I guess it may show that when AMD hardware is utilized properly you can get some big performance gains where the 7850 is now matching 660ti in this particular benchmark they're moving on to a game like Dark Souls 3 we can see that the 660ti handily beat the 7850 with ease now also another thing with the mighty number 9 which is a new game I noticed that this game was capped essentially at 62 frames per second so even with vertical sync off I just couldn't get an accurate benchmark or in other words both these cards performed absolutely fine in this new title at 1080p on high settings so that's the highest settings that it would go to so if you're looking for a graphics card to play mighty number 9 then you're going to be happy with something like a 70 or 50 or a 660ti and then looking at this last benchmark time spire which has kind of got some controversy surrounding it I'm not really going to go into it in this video but we saw the gtx 660ti was beating the 70 or 50 by quite a bit there as well that 30% margin is kind of coming back into play here though one thing I noticed with the time spy this time around and I have tested this over like a week ago is there's no option there for that asynchronous support thing anymore so I can't turn that on and off so pretty weird I'll try and look into this a little bit more I will also be looking into the Vulcan results a little bit more as well especially on the AMD card the 7850 since I just didn't get an increase at all in dota 2 and I didn't really get an increase at all in Doom which is where that game is really meant to shine and especially since the 7850 is on the GCN architecture I was kind of surprised to see that I was getting little-to-no gains also some other things I'll touch on is well before I get out of here maybe a subjective thing but I thought the gtx 660ti on the Vulcan API in dota 2 gave the best input lag in other words it gave the lowest input lag so if you're a competitive gamer in dota 2 you may wish to even though you get a little bit of an FPS drop there you may wish to turn that on because I thought the input lag was insanely low that was just the subjective thing I'd have to do more testing to give you guys an accurate picture of that but also another thing is one with my benchmarks they're very consistent as well I test apples to apples and since we've got two different graphics cards here over two different API it'd be something like apples apples apples apples anyway that's about it for me today guys if you enjoyed today's videos and be sure to hit that like button if you have any questions or comments about today's graphics cards are about today's testin be sure to drop a coke a question or a comment in the comment section below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can and also I will be doing some more follow-up tests with Vulcan and with the different api's on sort of those more newer graphics cards because the results I got here today we're really weird especially on the 7850 with bulk and I was supposed to although I was expecting a bigger increase than I actually got and also on the gtx 660ti we're actually got a drop on dota 2 they're going switching to Vulcan so kind of surprise there anyway guys I will see you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye yeah say clean your graphics card