NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 Review: The $400 Fight
by Ryan Smith on May 30, 2013 9:00 AM ESTHitman: Absolution
The third game in our lineup is Hitman: Absolution. The latest game in Square Enix’s stealth-action series, Hitman: Absolution is a DirectX 11 based title that though a bit heavy on the CPU, can give most GPUs a run for their money. Furthermore it has a built-in benchmark, which gives it a level of standardization that fewer and fewer benchmarks possess.
Under Hitman the GTX 770 once more goes back to trailing AMD’s 7970 cards. The GTX 770 and 7970 vanilla are neck-and-neck at times, and meanwhile it trails the faster 7970GE by about 13% at 2560, and 17% at 1920. Whereas compared to the NVIDIA stable we’re seeing just 2% faster than the GTX 680, and even the gains over the 570 are only 54%. Though dropping to 1920 with 4x MSAA opens a much wider gap between the GTX 770 and GTX 680, once again playing off the former’s significant memory bandwidth advantage.
Minimum framerates are essentially the same story as the average framerates, with the GTX 770 trailing AMD’s cards. Though for anything with an absolute minimum over 60fps we have to look at 1920 with high settings regardless.
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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.