NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 Review: The $400 Fight
by Ryan Smith on May 30, 2013 9:00 AM ESTSynthetics
As always we’ll also take a quick look at synthetic performance, though as GTX 780 is just another GK110 card, there shouldn't be any surprises here. These tests are mostly for comparing cards from within a manufacturer, as opposed to directly comparing AMD and NVIDIA cards. We’ll start with 3DMark Vantage’s Pixel Fill test.
Thanks to the combination of core clock and memory clock increases, GTX 770 doesn’t just pass GTX 680, but even GTX 780. This is a bit paradoxical at first, but it’s worth keeping in mind that this is a pixel throughput test, and GTX 770’s ROPs are clocked a good 200MHz+ higher than GTX 780’s. In real games GTX 780 is still going to have the edge, but in edge cases having such a clockspeed gap can lead to some unusual outcomes.
Moving on, we have our 3DMark Vantage texture fillrate test, which does for texels and texture mapping units what the previous test does for ROPs.
Texel throughput on the other hand is all about the core clocks; the improvement over the GTX 680 is barely at 3%, and GTX 770 is well behind GTX 780.
Finally we’ll take a quick look at tessellation performance with TessMark.
GTX 770 pulls ahead in TessMark by more than we would expect given the fact that this test should be largely GPU limited. This may be a case of GTX 770 squeezing out a bit more performance due to GPU Boost 2.0.
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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.