NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 Review: The $400 Fight
by Ryan Smith on May 30, 2013 9:00 AM ESTSleeping Dogs
Another Square Enix game, Sleeping Dogs is one of the few open world games to be released with any kind of benchmark, giving us a unique opportunity to benchmark an open world game. Like most console ports, Sleeping Dogs’ base assets are not extremely demanding, but it makes up for it with its interesting anti-aliasing implementation, a mix of FXAA and SSAA that at its highest settings does an impeccable job of removing jaggies. However by effectively rendering the game world multiple times over, it can also require a very powerful video card to drive these high AA modes.
Sleeping Dogs is another title AMD generally does well in, but in this case not so well that it shuts out the GTX 770. At 2560 it’s fast enough to pull ahead of the 7970, while still falling behind the 7970GE by a few FPS. Meanwhile the GTX 770’s 10% gain over the GTX 680 is solid and once again memory bandwidth likely plays a factor, while against the GTX 570 it’s ahead by 76%.
The GTX 770 doesn’t fare quite as well when it comes to minimum framerates. It’s not a poor showing, but it loses more ground than AMD’s cards do here, leaving it a few FPS behind the 7970.
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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.