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7970 Vs 770 - Stock & OC Gaming Benchmarks
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The problems of CF are massively overstated but it's undeniable that they exist for some. It's probably a bit of user problems chucked in as well as genuine issues. Fishing out the actual genuine issue is a minefield. One which I'm staying well away from from.
the issue is technical, Nvidia has the same exact issue, there is no fix..... only some form of compensation that tricks you to think it is solved when in reality it isnt.
its inherient with the sync and technology of frames itself and as far the world goes, no solution exist yet until a fast enough card created by aliens that arrives here with FTL travel and kidnap all the drug users, violent dictators, and anyone who belive otherwise.
/shrug
I don't get the arguing sometimes, would it not just be simple to say, the GTX770 and HD7970-GE are both excellent cards that are pretty much tied on price/performance* and whichever somebody buys they will not be disappointed. The only real deciding factor between the two should be either personal preference or a requirement for specific features which one card is better at like coin mining/folding/physx/photoshop/etc.
*according to the OcUK prices and the charts in the OP anyway.
I don't get the arguing sometimes, would it not just be simple to say, the GTX770 and HD7970-GE are both excellent cards that are pretty much tied on price/performance* and whichever somebody buys they will not be disappointed. The only real deciding factor between the two should be either personal preference or a requirement for specific features which one card is better at like coin mining/folding/physx/photoshop/etc.
*according to the OcUK prices and the charts in the OP anyway.
7970 has a 50euro price difference here atm, and beats the 770 so not sure if someone with price/performance ratio value would go for a 770 since it wont make sense.
the slow down of nodes shrinkage will accentuate this further as new cards will be delayed and we end up with slight refresh that newer cards dont even beat the older ones.
most have no idea normally what is the better option anyhow.
the slow down of nodes shrinkage will accentuate this further as new cards will be delayed and we end up with slight refresh that newer cards dont even beat the older ones.
most have no idea normally what is the better option anyhow.
What? From those charts above it is clear that a overlcocked 770 and an overclocked 7970 are very evenly matched.
Got a bit excited yesterday, the 770's and were all listed for under £300 on OcUK for a while, they went back up after that
When was this? Was it a mistake?
Caporegime
I decided to run Hitman out of curiosity sake. In 1080P, neither GPU went above 60% usage and the CPU was at 4.7Ghz.
I then ran it at 5960x1080 and both GPU's were at 99%
Surprising how little the GPU's were used at 1920x1080 but nice to see them running at full speed at the bigger resolution. A very good looking game but I do find it a tad boring.
I then ran it at 5960x1080 and both GPU's were at 99%
Surprising how little the GPU's were used at 1920x1080 but nice to see them running at full speed at the bigger resolution. A very good looking game but I do find it a tad boring.
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Yeah Hitman was a bit pants. It was OK but not the better of the GE titles.
Benchmarks at 1920x1080 since its most common resolution aside, any real gamer on the PC machine runs at least 1440p or bigger resolutions.
anyhow this below is one result. Personally I dont buy overpriced hardware that only give you bragging rights or such as for me unless the difference is actual in my use in practice and mesureable as I game, why buy something new that dont allow you a better experience?
I dont buy a new ssd for example as my current crucial M4 128gb is fine for my use and the funny thing I wont notice any difference if I bought a new one. Tech is slowing down big time.
I bought a 7970 due to the 680 too expensive and also not fast enough at my resolution and I waited 6 months until the 7970 was had for the same price it is at current pricepoint a superb deal.
No sane person buys Nvidia.
The below conclusion: Quote" The HD 7970 still clearly beats or matches the GTX 770 in all of the benchmarks except for Civ 5 and HWBot Heaven Xtreme. So, my personal opinion of the GTX 770 doesn’t change in light of the new results. The GTX 770 costs the same, but performs worse than the HD 7970 on average. If one needs some of NVIDIA’s exclusive features in the $400 price range, then the GTX 770 is the card to get. Otherwise, a little more performance can be had from the HD 7970." end quote.
http://www.overclockers.com/hd7970-gaming-benchmark-results-update
Benchmarks at 1920x1080 since its most common resolution aside, any real gamer on the PC machine runs at least 1440p or bigger resolutions.
anyhow this below is one result. Personally I dont buy overpriced hardware that only give you bragging rights or such as for me unless the difference is actual in my use in practice and mesureable as I game, why buy something new that dont allow you a better experience?
I dont buy a new ssd for example as my current crucial M4 128gb is fine for my use and the funny thing I wont notice any difference if I bought a new one. Tech is slowing down big time.
I bought a 7970 due to the 680 too expensive and also not fast enough at my resolution and I waited 6 months until the 7970 was had for the same price it is at current pricepoint a superb deal.
No sane person buys Nvidia.
The below conclusion: Quote" The HD 7970 still clearly beats or matches the GTX 770 in all of the benchmarks except for Civ 5 and HWBot Heaven Xtreme. So, my personal opinion of the GTX 770 doesn’t change in light of the new results. The GTX 770 costs the same, but performs worse than the HD 7970 on average. If one needs some of NVIDIA’s exclusive features in the $400 price range, then the GTX 770 is the card to get. Otherwise, a little more performance can be had from the HD 7970." end quote.
http://www.overclockers.com/hd7970-gaming-benchmark-results-update
Yeh that's great but:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/829?vs=768
Trading blows all the way down the page.
Also, i love gaming but game at 1080p. I see no reason to upgrade to higher res monitor yet.
I don't know why people find it so hard to come to terms with the fact that the 7970GHZ ED and 770 GTX are very evenly matched.
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I decided to run Hitman out of curiosity sake. In 1080P, neither GPU went above 60% usage and the CPU was at 4.7Ghz.
I then ran it at 5960x1080 and both GPU's were at 99%
Surprising how little the GPU's were used at 1920x1080 but nice to see them running at full speed at the bigger resolution. A very good looking game but I do find it a tad boring.
Ran a comparison for you at 1080p, Ultra x8AA. Gpu usage was around 87-90% with my cpu at 4.7ghz.
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Ran a comparison for you at 1080p, Ultra x8AA. Gpu usage was around 87-90% with my cpu at 4.7ghz.
I am scratching my head a little as to why the GPU usage was so low on my run.
I don't think hitman runs as well on Nvidia cards, especially multi gpu. Why do you think i suggested it as a joke along with dirt showdown? I knew my 7950's would trump your titans.
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That is impressive. Even when looking at game bench results for Hitman, they don't come anywhere near your results at 4XMSAA and you was using 8XMSAA 
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Whats more impressive is how big the difference is between all there results.
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I'm a little confused by the benchmarking results for Farcry3/Tomb raider as i get at least 5/10FPS on avg more out of the box.
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Your card probably has higher boost being a sc edition. Some kepler cards are boosting way over what is expected. Just a guess but most likely some truth in it.
I'll run x4 shortly and report back, im going to clock my cpu up to 5ghz see if i can get better gpu usage.
Anand results look there or thereabouts. TPU's just look wrong, either that or they're using very old drivers. Gamegpu doesn't have any multi gpu results so doesn't mean much, but im guessing thats on old drivers as well as it was likely pulled from their game gpu bench which is normally done around the time of release.
I'm using 13.6 beta 2 and the 13.5 caps.
AMD cards don't seem to feel much of a hit when you whack up the AA in this game either, likely because of the 384bit bus/3gb of vram.
Anand results look there or thereabouts. TPU's just look wrong, either that or they're using very old drivers. Gamegpu doesn't have any multi gpu results so doesn't mean much, but im guessing thats on old drivers as well as it was likely pulled from their game gpu bench which is normally done around the time of release.
I'm using 13.6 beta 2 and the 13.5 caps.
AMD cards don't seem to feel much of a hit when you whack up the AA in this game either, likely because of the 384bit bus/3gb of vram.
Caporegime
This is why I never trust paid reviewers. That Hitman bench is a standardised in game bench result, so all those fluctuations are clearly wrong and the same goes for Tomb Raider.
A few brown envelopes fly about me thinks
A few brown envelopes fly about me thinks