NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 Review With Gigabyte & MSI

Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770
Brand: NVIDIA

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, May 30, 2013, 09:00 AM EDT

Hitman: Absolution

DirectX 11 Gaming Performance

Hitman: Absolution

Hitman: Absolution follows Agent 47, a cold-blooded assassin, who takes on his most dangerous contract to date. Betrayed by those he once trusted - and now hunted by the police - he suddenly finds himself at the center of a dark conspiracy and must embark on a personal journey through a corrupt and twisted world. We tested the game at multiple resolutions, with all in-game options set to their maximum values and global illumination and 4X anti-aliasing enabled.

The new GeForce GTX 770 cards once again outrun the GeForce GTX 680 according to the Hitman Absolution benchmark, but they can't quite keep pace with the Radeon HD 7970. At the higher resolution, however, SLI appears to scale a bit better and the GeForce GTX 770 SLI setup is able to overtake the Radeon HD 7970 CrossFire setup.

Single-GPU FCAT Results - Click to Enlarge

With the sole exception of one huge spike in the Radeon's frametimes, all of the single-GPU configurations perform well in this game and consistently deliver frames to the screen

SLI / CrossFire FCAT Results - Click to Enlarge

The SLI configurations didn't suffer from any frame pacing issues either, but the same can't be said for the Radeon HD 7970 CrossFire setup. Frametimes were much more erratic with the CrossFire rig in this game.

Tags: Nvidia, MSI, GeForce, Gigabyte, Gaming, graphics, Lightning, GTX 770, Windforce

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com