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so if you've got $100 in your wallet and you want to be bowling in terms of 1080p PC gaming then today we're going to take a look at to use graphics cards one in particular the 780ti now I got this in a bargain on a use parts on I'll put the link up here for that video if you haven't seen it already then we've got besides that an Rx 570 still a very popular card on the used market to this date now these two here this is a gtx 1650 and a 1660 which are well above that $100 budget so let's see how the 780ti performs in games in 2019 I've also got a little bonus for you guys to I'm not only going to be comparing it on a 99 hundred K but also a 35 70 and now now a few you guys will be like where's the r9 290x I actually checked locally for deals and on ebay.com and generally I can't find these cheaper than an rx 570 and since that uses less power and it performs better in games I decided to leave it out of today's comparison and we just finished testing these for graphics cards with the 9900 K of 5 gigahertz now of course it's a bit unrealistic to go out and buy any of these four cards and couple them with a 9900 came we'll be fixing that up quite soon after we get through these benchmarks which did show some very interesting numbers and we'll start with Tom Clancy's the division 2 where the RX 570 was beating the 1650 and then the 1660 was getting ahead of that sort of as expected with those numbers and the 780 Ti was just barely beating that of the 1650 though here's the curve ball we're gonna throw in here and this is Crysis 3 we're at 1080p very high settings with SMA a set to 1x we saw these 780ti literally beat all these three other cards and I had to go back and test this a few times but this is where that older architecture that's geared towards an older game where you can't really optimize the game for the newer architectures like Turing for example the 780ti just comfortably pulled ahead and then we had the RX 570 also giving the 1650s smackdown in this particular title also the RX 570 did have the best point one percent lows but the 7h g i had the best one percent lowest but now moving over to shadow of the tomb Reuter we had here SMA at 1x high setting preset and we had the 1650 beating the 780ti in this particular title and I do believe this is optimized for the nuturing architecture so that was a little bit surprising to see though since the 780ti is still a very powerful card but it's pretty much losing to everything rx 570 though it's still coming ahead of the 1650 by quite a comfortable margin then that 1660 coming in with its typical result but now move over to Apex legends or apex lugnut warriors as we'll put in the title here we had the 1650 actually coming very close to the 780 Ti then of course rx 570 beating that and then the GTX 1660 beating that though the 1% in point 1 percent lows were pretty impressive here for the rx 517 though every other card here did run really smoothly and then the last game on the bench was far cry new 1080p high settings preset and then the 780ti coming with that magical number - one of 59 FPS with a 49 min the RX 570 going up to 71 beating that at the 1650 then the 1660 beating that after rx 570 so after this initial round of testing the results were really all over the place with the 780 Ti it's clear that this card with its three gigabytes of vram and its older architecture does tend to like older titles where all those newer titles pretty much show that trading blows with the 1650 although even then on the used market the 780 Ti is still coming well under that $150 USD price tag but now with that aside let's test out these four GPUs on the old-school I 5 3rd gen Ivy Bridge and see how the results different also on top of that I'll do some power consumption results for you guys then we'll come back with the verdict now we just finished testing things out this time around with that third gen Ivybridge I 5 and what we got here with some results that pretty much stuck similar to the 9900 case setup in terms of where all these cards ranked however the differences in fps was sometimes quite significant and then sometimes we're a little bit smaller of course depending on how much law we go in terms of the general performance of the card take for instance we go into Crysis 3 the trend still continue with the 780ti coming out on top but it lost seven fps on average versus the 9900 case setup which isn't a huge deal considering the cost of the 9900 Kay and everything else involved in that setup versus our cheap set up here but the one percent in point one percent lows we're a little bit worse on average to the RX 570 did fare quite substantially worse too but then the gtx 1650 actually scored the same as it did in the previous tests on the 9900 k maybe a pretty much a decent proposition when you couple it with those older OEMs but moving on to the division 2 we saw the same buck trend continue here with minus 3 to minus 12 FPS on the 1660 where this fared the worst in terms of losing FPS versus the 9900 case setup and I did notice the CPU is pretty much maxed at a hundred percent across all four of these graphics cards tested with the older i5 may be routed shadows of the Tomb Raider though this was a little bit of an anomaly because the 780ti now came out ahead of the 1650 so I don't know what voodoo magic is going on there but this saw the trend shift a little bit but the other three cards the rx 570 the 1650 in the 1660 did fare worse with the worst case scenario being that 1660 obviously hitting that CPU bottleneck where it did make the FPS quite substantially lower losing 18 average FPS overall but now moving over to Apex dragons and I say that because I didn't notice that the update there done you've got these dragons flying around now that carried loot in the game but surprisingly enough we did see a bit of a difference in the trends here again just like shadows of the Tomb Raider but this time in favor of the rx 570 where that came ahead by two FPS but this time that dragon was flying around while I was doing the benchmarks here so maybe that accounts for something maybe it does sort of render easier physics on the dragon giving the RX 570 a slight boost in fps when I tested it on this scenario but then the 1650 scored the same fps as it did on the 9900 K and then the 1660 and also 780 I not losing a whole lot so this game was as we said in the past very well optimised in terms of CPU side optimizations the last stop on the list Far Cry new dawn 1080p high settings where the 780ti fed the best here in terms of not just performance overall with this older OEM system but also in terms of the FPS that lost it only lost one fps and in the other three setups here lost 24 on the RX 570 13 on the 1650 and 29 on the 1660 so this was the worst case scenario of all the games but we generally know what the Far Cry series it is single threat heavy but it doesn't account for the fact that the 780 Ti is not losing anywhere near the FPS that these other three GPUs are losing and we do know that 780 Ti hasn't really been receiving that much driver optimization love in 2019 but it's still strange to see that the other three graphics cards that are receiving driver optimizations for these newer titles is losing a lot of FPS when we're stepping things down in terms of what CPU are coupling this with maybe if you guys know what's up in the comments let us know because I'd like to investigate this maybe a little bit further because it is very eye-opening but of course the last thing that we're looking at here is power consumption and this is probably the only real negative when you're looking at a 780ti 356 Watts versus 255 on the rx 570 verse 152 on the 1650 verse is a hundred and ninety-six when we tested this in Crysis 3 which is generally a very power hungry game and not just terms of GPU utilization but also CPU utilization - CPU utilization just take out one of the yous so now what does this leave us with the GTX 780 t.i well basically if you can pick these up for a good price then they're definitely worth it in 2019 the performance that we saw here did favor this to be coupled with cheaper systems which is why I like to test it with the older i5s to see how it will fare verse the newer graphics cards that are priced higher on the new market of course the rx 570 can be had for a bargain as well if you guys have seen in the past I've been picking those things up in droves because they represent phenomenal price performance the song like this shouldn't be ignored especially if you can get it for under a hundred US dollars the three gigabyte vram buffer is not a problem at 1080p gaming though the power requirements for this card will mean that you want to couple it with a decent power supply I'm thinking at least a good 500 watt rated power supply should leave you with a little bit of room to spare that's if you couple it with an i5 3470 like we tested here today if you're stepping it up to an overclockable CPU then you may wish to go for something like a 600 watt as this card here does need to eight pin PCIe connectors and it is one massive card weighing in at over 1.1 kilograms but on that note the temperatures are pretty good the cooler does a great job and when it came to overclocking it I managed to get roughly an extra 10 percent performance out of this thing when I did overclock it as we saw with the division 2 my fps went from 59 up to 64 and the 1% 0.1% lows went up respectively and now you guys know I love myself a good bargain and so when I started this video and then I started benchmarking I went looking on gumtree and Facebook marketplace for some deals on 780ti s and I found one person selling two of these one being the exact same model as this and another EVGA model for $300 e dollars I put in an offer of $200 e dollars and so I'm gonna see how that goes if I could pick these up for $100 dollars each then they're definitely a good buy the ultimately with the GTX 780 Ti it is a card that can still get up and boogie in 2019 though one thing we noticed with Crysis 3 it does tend to favor older titles in terms of the performance gains when you compare it to the newer cards with all those newer optimizations for those new idols and with that said I hope you guys enjoyed today's throwback to the 780ti in the newer titles if you enjoyed this one then be sure to hit that like button also let us know in the comments section below what do you think of the gtx 780 Ti is it a card that you're still holding on to is it a card that you've passed up when your deal hunting or is it a card on your radar let me know love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and if you enjoyed this one and you like the content coming out on tech air city sub buttons down there as well as the bell icon and with that aside I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye