The GeForce GTX 770 Review: Calling In A Hit On Radeon HD 7970?

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Wait, the new GeForce GTX 770 is powered by Nvidia's old GK104? That's right. And guess what? The card is faster, quieter, more feature-complete, and less expensive than the GeForce GTX 680 that came before it. Can it usurp the compelling Radeon HD 7970?

Single-Card Results: Crysis 3

Even a GeForce GTX 690 struggles at certain points, dipping under 25 FPS when things get tough. It’ll be interesting to see if this game is playable when we drop two GTX 770s side-by-side in our overclocked gaming machine.

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 770 doesn’t achieve the fastest frame rates, but it does give us great frame time variance numbers, exhibiting very little difference in time between subsequent frames, indicating consistent delivery.

Meanwhile, the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition that was doing so well before averages a disturbing 7 ms between frames, spiking as high as 20 ms when things get really bad.

Chris Angelini
Chris Angelini
Chris Angelini is an Editor Emeritus at Tom's Hardware US. He edits hardware reviews and covers high-profile CPU and GPU launches.