NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 Review: The $400 Fight
by Ryan Smith on May 30, 2013 9:00 AM ESTFar Cry 3
The next game in our benchmark suite is Far Cry 3, Ubisoft’s island-jungle action game. A lot like our other jungle game Crysis, Far Cry 3 can be quite tough on GPUs, especially with MSAA and improved alpha-to-coverage checking thrown into the mix. On the other hand it’s still a bit of a pig on the CPU side, and seemingly inexplicably we’ve found that it doesn’t play well with HyperThreading on our testbed, making this the only game we’ve ever had to disable HT for to maximize our framerates.
With Far Cry 3 we shift to a set of games that historically favor NVIDIA’s cards, and as it turns out benefit the GTX 770 to a pretty big degree. At 2560 we’re looking at a 13% advantage over the 7970GE, rising to 17% at 1920 without MSAA. The GTX 680 and GTX 570 are also summarily put in their place, with the GTX 770 gaining on them by 11% and 85% respectively.
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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.