NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 Review: The $400 Fight
by Ryan Smith on May 30, 2013 9:00 AM ESTCrysis 3
Our final benchmark in our suite needs no introduction. With Crysis 3, Crytek has gone back to trying to kill computers, taking back the “most punishing game” title in our benchmark suite. Only in a handful of setups can we even run Crysis 3 at its highest (Very High) settings, and that’s still without AA. Crysis 1 was an excellent template for the kind of performance required to driver games for the next few years, and Crysis 3 looks to be much the same for 2013.
Unsurprisingly, Crysis 3 is another game where 2560 isn’t really on the table. In fact we have to go all the way to 1920 at High settings to get a framerate above 60fps. By this point the GTX 770 leads over the 7970GE by 16%, a smaller 7% over the GTX 680, and 76% over the GTX 570.
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karasaj - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
Nice! I heard that the 770 was going to perform much better than this, but I'm glad to see an improvement as well as lower prices. This might prompt a price cut by AMD, which could benefit everybody.axien86 - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
When the GTX 770 is so far behind even ancient cards in GPU compute and Folding... You know it is time to recall the overheating GTX 770 back to Nvidia and design something with real improvements.freespace303 - Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - link
80c load is quite common and safe for GPUs that have stock coolers. If those temps concern you, wait until these are released with aftermarket coolers installed.tipoo - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
This really could have been called "680 gets bios update, price drop".BeauCharles - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
Its not their top single GPU card, its their third place. The fact its tying with AMD's first place pretty much speaks for itself.tipoo - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
Does "first place" matter, or do price points? If the 7970 was AMDs twentieth best card it still wouldn't change that it's competing with the 770s price point.EJS1980 - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
Even though a lot of AMD dudes will surely get butthurt with you, your point is right on. Heavy is the head...tipoo - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
I'm not an "AMD dude", but I fail to see why that's right on. Price points matter, where the products rank within an individual companies line don't. If the 770 was Nvidias 100th best graphics card, at the same price/performance what would that change? Nothing.EJS1980 - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
I guess I should clarify that I was making a generalization, and wasn't referring to anyone in particular.sna1970 - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
what matters is how many FPS you get per dollar.who cares about getting flagships when you reach 60fps ? and how many people pay 4000$ for high end gaming machine ?
I choose nvida over AMD for one reason , PhysX.