NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 Review With Gigabyte & MSI

Alien vs. Predator
DirectX 11 Gaming Performance


Alien vs. Predator

The Alien vs. Predator benchmark makes use of the advanced Tessellation, screen space ambient occlusion, and high-quality shadow features available with DirectX 11. In addition to enabling all of the aforementioned DirectX 11-related features offered by this benchmark, we also switched on 4X anti-aliasing along with 16X anisotropic filtering to more heavily tax the graphics cards being tested.

The GeForce GTX 770 easily outpaces the GeForce GTX 680 in the Alien vs. Predator benchmark, but it trails all of the other card by a wide margin. The MSI card managed to nudge past Gigabyte's offering here, which it should considering it's clocked a bit higher, and SLI scaling looks good.


Single-GPU FCAT Results - Click to Enlarge

There's nothing extraordinary to report with regard to single GPU frame times. The more expensive GeForce GTX 780 was clearly the fastest of the bunch, and all of the other cards were relatively tightly grouped.
 


SLI / CrossFire FCAT Results - Click to Enlarge

Multi-GPU frametimes, however, were a different story. The CrossFire setup suffered from numerous runts and dropped frames and wildly inconsistent frametimes. Although difficult to see in the first plot, the GeForces clearly output frames at a much more consistent clip. 


Marco Chiappetta

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

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