Results: 3D Mark 2011
3D Mark Vantage has now been officially retired by me, and I could not be happier. I have now moved up 2011 as the base test to see previous gen DX11 performance. I have used the performance presets for this test.
The results shake out essentially how one would expect. 3D Mark 2011 is a nice start to benchmarking as it gives pretty reliable results between runs. Not ever benchmark or game will reflect this particular outcome, but it is a good start. The 7950 and 760 are very close together, the 670 is a nice step ahead of those, the 7970 and 770 are neck and neck, while the GTX 780 is in a class of its own. Note as well the PT and CT tests. I find it pretty interesting that the 7970 is outperforming the 780.
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.