Results: Battlefield 3
Quit being such a hippie! Ok, I paraphrased that. My least favorite test and the world’s biggest multiplayer FPS. The Frostbite 2 engine powers this beast and it delivers outstanding visuals. The High preset is used with 4X AA and 16X AF. A manual runthrough of the second mission was recorded by FRAPS.
These results are pretty tightly packed when it comes to price/performance. BF3 is obviously a big game for these vendors, and optimizing their drivers for it is key. The GTX 780 again rules the roost, followed by the 770 and 7970. The GTX 670 is not that much ahead of the 7950 and 760, both of which are quite a bit less expensive than the 670 Mini.
The fact that every card has
The fact that every card has a new cooler except for the GTX 770 really irritates me…
It is a new cooler on the GTX
It is a new cooler on the GTX 770, because the previous GTX 680 had the triple slot number. It is unfortunate that they did not update the shroud though to match those of the 780 and 760.
Great cards these GTX780
Great cards these GTX780 Direct CUs. I’ve been a little hasty on getting the MSI GTX690 reference card early this March (got a great discount on it though 🙂 . It’s not overclocked (for acoustic and temperature reasons), but on a 60Hz 1080p SAMSUNG monitor displays everything beautifully, with all eye-candy maxed out. Constant 60FPS with V-Sync on for great image quality – that is on every game I played so far. No need for overclocking yet! If I hadn’t bought this GTX690 beauty, I most definitely would have gone for ASUS’s GTX780. Thanks for this review, Josh. Great job. All the best!
PS: Might wanna check Min/Avg colour bars on Unigine Heaven benchmarks page.
I had just gotten one of
I had just gotten one of these card myself and I have had problems with it. It goes unresponsive. As soon as I put back in my gtx 680 no problems so i was wondering whether it was the card so i wend and returned it and the next one did the same thing. So I had my friend let me borrow his GTX 770 this was a EVGA version I put that thing in and I had absolutely no problems what soever so keep this in mind.