Something I like about the software is that you’ll be shown various screenshots and given notes on how each feature is improving the visual quality. No longer do you have to test each and every setting to get the best graphics possible for your setup as NVIDIA has done most of the grunt work for you. As a programmer, I love to create software to make my life easier and the GeForce Experience is made just to do that. GeForce Experience is a big initiative by NVIDIA to help ease the setup process of a game’s setting to give you the best experience possible at the best frame rate possible. It’s not all about the card though as software to drive the card is important. It definitely sounds quieter than the GeForce GTX 580 and you’ll probably be oblivious to when it ramps up during gameplay because other fans such as the case fan or power supply fan will drown it out. The card also ran very quietly when tests were being conducted as well as playing some long sessions of gaming in the past week.
You’re talking just a 5 to 20% decrease in performance over the GeForce GTX 780 at 39% less in cost so you’re getting some pretty good bang for your buck here.
The performance here is definitely nothing to sneeze at and at the price point NVIDIA is putting this card out at, you can expect to get a great deal of power for your money. You can see with the faster memory and improved clock speeds, the GeForce GTX 770 did a wonderful job at keeping up with the more expensive GeForce GTX 780. I’ve attached a screenshot of each game’s settings.īatman Arkham Asylum used the built in benchmark and tests were ran 3 times. Also, I decided to go with all games this time around, foregoing on any artificial benchmarking programs.
My test setup consisted of:Īll tests were ran with the latest NVIDIA drivers for their respective cards. I tested the card against a GeForce GTX 580 and the GeForce GTX 780.We’ll see how much of a performance improvement there is on a card that I can still find for around $370 new as well as the $649 GeForce GTX 780.
When in use, the GeForce GTX logo lights up in a nice green glow so for those with windows in their cases, you’ll be showing off who powers your graphics in style. One eight pin and one six pin power connector are also on top to power the card. The pictures that NVIDIA showed has has this really cool metallic bridge that they say will be made available to consumers sometime in the near future. If you’re playing with surround gaming using three monitors or even one very high resolution monitor, you’ll be able to pair one or two more of these cards up to grab some nice performance boost. On top of the card, there’s connectors for a three-way SLI setup. The GTX 580 and GTX 680 aren’t that loud to begin with when playing, but the GTX 780 should improve on an already quiet setup. With the GTX 780, you’re looking at around 3dBA less according to NVIDIA’s graph. When gaming, one of the things that I do find annoying is hearing the video card as it ramps the fan speed up to cool down the heat generated from the intense calculations done when rendering 3D content. NVIDIA has really tried and make the GTX 780 much quieter to use. The card is a dual slot card, like all of the high end cards from NVIDIA.
For connecting to a video source, the reference GTX 770 has one full sized HDMI port, one Display Port, one Dual Link DVI-D port, and one Dual Link DVI-I port. The GTX 770 measures in at 10.5” in length, or a half inch longer than a reference GTX 680. Still, you can see that the GeForce GTX 770 has a lot going for it in terms of getting performance from faster clock speeds. It does have 1GB less memory at 2GB while the GeForce GTX 780 has 3GB of memory. These factors help increase the performance of the card that was lost to the removal of some CUDA cores. Also, the memory is clocked at 7.0 Gbps versus the 6 Gbps that the GeForce GTX 780 has. So what specs can you expect from this card? Let’s have a look.Ĭompared to the GeForce GTX 780, the GeForce GTX 770 has 768 less CUDA cores, but has a 183 MHz faster base clock and a 185 MHz faster boost clock. The reference card that NVIDIA was kind enough to send me has a solid feel and design, exactly like the GeForce GTX 780.