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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 - More than Just a Rebadging Exercise

By Kenny Yeo & Wong Chung Wee - 30 May 2013

Far Cry 3 & Hitman: Absolution Results

*Updated as of 2nd June 2013 - Originally published as a preliminary review on 30th May, we've since refreshed our comparison results to update the article to a full review, complete with ratings.

Far Cry 3 Results

Far Cry 3 is running on the Dunia 2 Engine, a modified version of Crytek's CryEngine. As such, this benchmark features heavy tessellation, high amounts of volumetric lighting, and deferred radiance transfer volumes (global illumination).

Without AA, the GeForce GTX 770 only managed to outperform the GeForce GTX 680 by almost 7% at the resolution of 2560 x 1600; while at the lower resolution, GTX 770 was beaten by the GTX 680 by a margin of almost 13%. In comparison with the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, it was almost on par with the GTX 770 at the lower resolution, and at the higher resolution, it was just 12% behind (about 5fps). Against the GeForce GTX 780, the GeForce GTX 770 trailed by around 10% to 20%. With AA set at 8x, the GTX 770 outperformed both rivals by at least 16- to 20%.

Once more, we saw an anomaly in results for the GeForce GTX Titan, but this time it was only confined to its non-AA results. Clearly it's just a matter of needing new drivers to bring its scores up to where it should be and we'll get to that when the GTX Titan makes its way back to us. 8x MSAA results on the other hand, came out as expected.

  

 

Hitman: Absolution Results

Hitman: Absolution is another challenging benchmark, running on IO Interactive's proprietary Glacier2 engine, a very hardware intensive engine which is able to render up to 1200 NPCs at the same time. The benchmark tool used to test this game is extremely intensive and features a massive crowd of NPCs, Reflective Shadow Mapping (RSM), Direct Compute accelerated Bokeh Depth of Field, extreme tessellation and Ambient Occlusion.

In this benchmark, the GeForce GTX 770 was only marginally faster than the GeForce GTX 680 while the Radeon HD 7970 GHz edition handily beat the newcomer. This could be due to the GTX 770's smaller 2GB framebuffer as the AMD card has 3GB of memory.

The GeForce GTX Titan had similar standings to Far Cry 3, right down to the non-AA results that are requesting for newer drivers. However, you should be well aware that it can chalk up better results than the GeForce GTX 780, so this is a non-issue while we await the GTX Titan to back for another round of tests.

  

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8.0
  • Performance 8
  • Features 8.5
  • Value 7.5
The Good
Decent improvements over the GTX 680
Quiet cooler
Price is attractive in the USA
The Bad
Higher power consumption
Slightly warmer operation
Local price points can be better
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