**Comparing High-End Graphics Cards: A Review**

In this article, we will compare three high-end graphics cards from different manufacturers to determine which one is the fastest and most efficient for gaming at 4K resolution. We will test each card on various games, including Ghost Recon Wildlands, GTA 5, The Division, and others, to see how they perform in terms of frame rate and detail.

**The EVGA Card: A Mid-Range Option**

We started by testing the EVGA card, which was specified as running at 1947 MHz. We were looking for a balance between performance and price, and the EVGA card seemed like a good option. However, when we tested it on our games, we found that it performed below expectations, particularly in terms of frame rate and detail at high settings. Despite this, the EVGA card was still able to run many games at high refresh rates and ultra detail, albeit with some sacrifice in performance.

**The Gigabyte Card: A High-End Option**

Next, we tested the Gigabyte card, which was running at 1936 MHz. We were looking for a top-of-the-line option that could handle demanding games at 4K resolution with ease. Unfortunately, we found that the Gigabyte card performed similarly to the EVGA card in terms of frame rate and detail, despite having a higher clock speed. This suggested that other factors, such as memory bandwidth and cooling system, may have played a role in its performance.

**Jumping Between Cards: A Look at the Performance**

We decided to test both cards on a few games to see how they compared side by side. We started with GTA 5, which was one of our most demanding tests. When we tested both cards on GTA 5, we found that they performed similarly in terms of frame rate and detail. However, when we switched to Ghost Recon Wildlands, the EVGA card struggled to keep up with the Gigabyte card's performance.

**The Division: A Brutal Experience**

Next, we tested The Division, which is known for its demanding gameplay and high system requirements. When we ran The Division on our cards, we found that both the EVGA and Gigabyte cards were able to run the game at high settings with ease. However, when we dropped the resolution down to 1080p, the EVGA card struggled to keep up with the Gigabyte card's performance.

**What Does it Mean for You?**

So what does this mean for you as a gamer? If you're looking for a graphics card that can handle demanding games at 4K resolution with ease, the Gigabyte card may be the better option. However, if you're on a budget or don't need top-of-the-line performance, the EVGA card is still a great choice.

**The Bottom Line**

In conclusion, our testing of these three graphics cards revealed that while they all have their strengths and weaknesses, the Gigabyte card was the clear winner in terms of performance at 4K resolution. However, if you're looking for a more affordable option or don't need top-of-the-line performance, the EVGA card is still a great choice.

**A Note on Overclocking**

One thing that's worth noting is that both cards can be overclocked to improve their performance. The EVGA card can be overclocked by 100 MHz to give it a slight edge over the Gigabyte card. However, this will also increase fan noise and heat generation.

**Upcoming Videos: A Look at Other Graphics Cards**

We'll be doing an upcoming video series that compares three graphics cards from different manufacturers: the NVIDIA GeForce 780ti, AMD Radeon 980ti, and NVIDIA GeForce 1080 Ti. We'll test these cards on various games to see how they perform in terms of frame rate and detail. Stay tuned for more information.

**The Importance of Cooling Systems**

Finally, we want to emphasize the importance of cooling systems when it comes to graphics card performance. Both the EVGA and Gigabyte cards have different cooling systems that can affect their performance. The Gigabyte card has a more advanced cooling system that allows it to run cooler and longer than the EVGA card.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, our testing of these three graphics cards revealed that while they all have their strengths and weaknesses, the Gigabyte card was the clear winner in terms of performance at 4K resolution. However, if you're looking for a more affordable option or don't need top-of-the-line performance, the EVGA card is still a great choice. We'll continue to monitor these cards and provide updates on their performance as new games and benchmarks become available.

**Disclaimer**

We want to emphasize that our testing was done with various settings and resolutions to give you an idea of how each graphics card performs in different situations. However, we also want to note that the performance results may vary depending on your specific system configuration and usage.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello and welcome to tech deals which GeForce GTX 1080i graphics card should you buy who should buy one of these cards what are they good for and how well do they perform at the three main resolutions of 1080p 1440p and 4k I'm going to cover all that in the video talk about the differences between these cards some other cards on the market you might consider and I'm going to be showing you some live gameplay benchmarks later in this video now first up let me get a couple things out of the way if you want to play modern current games at 4k resolution at 60 plus frames per second stop because you have come to the right place these are the only cards that should be on your shopping list the division Ghost Recon wildlands prey even Grand Theft Auto 5 which will play on lesser cards play best on these if you really want a 4k graphics card you want a 1080 TI they're expensive I know but that's where you should be what about 1440p maybe it depends at 1440p 60 Hertz it's not a requirement however if you want to do 1440p ultra wide at 100 Hertz yes then it does become a requirement 1440p non ultra wide at 144 Hertz yes again requirement what about 1080p well nobody needs to buy one of these for 1080p gaming right don't be so sure if you want to play all current games at Ultra max detail at over 60 frames per second yes you actually do Ghost Recon wildlands which I fully understand is a very demanding title and not necessarily representative of all games but it will not run at ultra detail at over 60 frames per second on anything less than a 1080 ti I will have a video of that in an upcoming video series I'm doing where I actually take a look at 1080p gaming on the 1080 T on I would not normally have thought you needed such a car but I decided try it was actually quite surprised with what it really took to play everything at max detail these days so moving back to 4k and 1440 let me just read that if you have the budget for a card like this frankly the only machine these cards should really go in and this question is bound to be asked what what computer do I need for these cards now you can put these in anything you want but really a modern i7 or an AMD risin 5 1600 or Rison 7 1700 or greater is really what these should be installed in all of the tests that I've done with these cards are going to be in either an Intel i7 7700 K or arisin 7 1700 X if you have a 700 to 750 dollar budget for a graphics card frankly you should have a 350 dollar budget for your CPU otherwise your mismatching components in you're putting too much graphics card in not enough cpu if you've got a 4-year old I 5 you need to upgrade that before you think about spending $700 on a graphics card used after watching this video you decide that a 1080 Ti is in your future the next question is which one Devine well there are two primary types of cards on the market there are blower style cards which is what's here in the middle this is a founders edition but there are other blower style cards that you can find as well and then finally you have the open air coolers such as these two right here what are the differences primarily the blower style coolers run a little bit hotter and a little bit louder than the open air style coolers but they do have the benefit of exhausting most of their heat out the back of the case they intake air through the fan here it sucks air in runs it across the veins and across the heatsink and it exhausted out the vent on the back these style coolers with the two and the three fans generally exhaust the heat out the top and the bottom of the card and keep it within the case the benefit to these cards is they generally have larger heat sinks larger fans they generally run at a cooler temperature and slightly faster clock speeds in general these type of cards are between 5 to 10 percent faster than the blower style cards however the blower style cards generally can be overclocked to run as fast as these at the cost of the and temperature in fact I did run this card at the same speed as these and it ran perfectly fine and stable but the fan had to be run at 80 percent to keep it cool enough at 80 percent it's definitely audible and so if you want a quiet fast card then you want an open-air cooler rather than a blower please note it depends on what kind of case you install these in these cards produce a reasonable amount of heat these leave the heat inside your case you need to make sure that you have a large enough case with enough intake and exhaust fans in your case to get that heat out so that the cards don't heat saturate or heat up your other components such as your hard drive SSD or CPU with a blower style cooler this tends to work better in smaller cases such as an ITX case or a mini ATX case where you don't have a lot of airflow and this allows most of the heat of the car to be exhausted at the back while it is not as fast out of the box it's close but not as fast out of the box as these are it certainly is a lot faster if these have to start thermally throttling because you've installed them in cases with inadequate airflow now as far as price goes the founder's Edition and most of the blower cards are going to be found right at about 700 dollars at least in May of 2017 when I'm filming this they'll come down over time the aftermarket cards also can be found for $700 but they can also be found for closer to $800 the for the wind three triple fan Edition from eg B BGA for example and the assist Republic of gamers Strix card are both seven hundred and eighty dollars are they worth the money not from a performance point of view they're not but you might like them for their lighting or their aesthetics or their sides or simply because you like owning the best however when it comes to performance all of the blower style cards run about the same and all of the open-air cards run about the same the differences are noise style aesthetics brand and simply personal preference things like RGB lighting and the like the truth of the matter is is the $700 open-air cards and the 780 dollar open-air car it's all run at about the same speed and no you really can't overclock the top-end cards substantially faster than the more entry-level cards and the reason for that is because they're not templum nted their power delivery and chip design limited their voltage limited you don't buy the bigger cards with the fancier coolers because you need more cooling because cooling is not the limitation voltage is the primary limitation and you can't adjust it enough to make any difference so if you think before the wind 3 from EVGA or the assist Republic of gamers Strix card are just awesome looking and you want them because you think they're cool go for it but they're not faster the deal are the seven hundred to seven hundred and twenty dollar cards does otech amp Edition either the $720 version of this or the white one for seven hundred the superclocked Black Edition which is seven hundred and twenty from EBG A or even one of the blower style cards if you have a smaller case it is simply not worth spending seven hundred and fifty to 704 May performance point of view now I want to show you the new aid page for the 1080i and 1080p I founders editions cards just really briefly to scroll through them and talk about them the first three cards you will see here our founders editions cards they're from three different companies but they're all the same card P and ye BGA and gigabyte buy the cheapest one if you want to founders Edition card scrolling down we come down to the first aftermarket card that I do actually recommend and this is that white triple fan card from gigabyte it is not factory overclocked as high as the RS card that was on my desk but for 700 this is a deal and frankly you will never notice any performance difference between this card and the one that I showed you on the desk scrolling down from there we have three more founders editions cards a soos MSI and ZOTAC again buy based on price scrolling down from there we see the msi armor would i buy an armor OC gtx ten ATT i know this is actually a pretty small cooler all things considered from looking at reviews of this card from other reviewers it does tend to run I would skip the msi armor now that does not make the game EXO bad car that's a different story completely we'll get to that in a minute but the armor the black and white skip then we come down to three blower style cards that are a little bit different than founders editions same price basically the same performance however if you like the color look and style of these cards more than the founders editions by all means get them because they're basically the same card with a different color shape etc cooler on them scrolling down from there we come to some additional aftermarket cards first we have the EVGA superclocked black now this is not what's on the desk what I have on the desk is the super clock 2 card with the icx cooler we'll get to that in a minute I would actually buy this one instead of the one that's on the desk the reason I bought the ones on the desk was to buy the best can see how overclockable they were they're not so if I'm buying for myself this is the one I'd buy if I want EVGA P&Y for 720 here's a very nice triple fing card you're not going to have any issues with heat or temps with that thing then we come down to the gigabyte aurorus I call it a roars Horus it depends on how you want to pronounce it now there's two of these this isn't also not the one on my desk I have the Extreme Edition which didn't overclock any better than this one does so by this one unless for example you just want Extreme Edition in the name then we come down to the zotac amp Edition actually quite like this card both from appearance from its power delivery design it's got a 16 plus 2 that is a massively over-engineered power delivery system for seven hundred and twenty-five dollars that's a nice card if you like ZOTAC if you get a deal on it I recommend that card then we come down to the other msi card gaming x great card fair price a little bit more than the others but if you like the design this has a top-end cooler on it fully recommended very nice card this gigabyte here this is what's actually on the in fact I'll scroll down here these two cards on the bottom here are what's on the desk the super clock 2 and the Extreme Edition gigabyte car they're fine they're lovely cards they work great I'm going to show you some gameplay in just a minute but you're spending more money and not getting any more performance please keep that in mind when we come up from these two cards now here is an MSI card with a massive cooler on it for 750 dollars it's personal preference do you like that they came out with this it looks different than the red and black gaming X do you like the gaming X buy that do you like the look of this duke card which is what they're calling this buy it instead same difference same thing here with the zotac amp Extreme Edition up here I talked about how much I like this amp Edition now this has two fans and it's much smaller but again we're not temp limited we come down to the zotac extreme imp extreme edition same 16 plus 2 power phase delivery system it does come at a higher clock speed out of the box but it does not matter GPU boost from Nvidia auto overclocks all of these cards none of them run these speeds so the speeds are shipped out really doesn't make a big difference in fact you'll see there's two of them here be cautious this is a massive heavy cooler it weighs a ton you need a big big case and a strong case and a strong motherboard for that big card and then finally we come down here to the serious republic of gamers and the for the win three buy these because you want the branding to look the style you want to be able to say I have a for the win or a Rob Strix card buy them for their features not their performance they're not bad cards they're great they're just a little bit on the expensive side if you can find these on sale or a deal any point in the future by all means get them I would now that was a quick look at the cards currently available on Newegg my opinion on each of them in which one I think different people should bond now coming up next is going to be some quick live gameplay on each of these cards that I'm going to voice over and narrate and talk about but since that makes this video longer and not everybody wants to watch it I'm going to go ahead and put the ending here before we switch to full screen like this video if you liked it share it with friends if you loved it remember to subscribe to my channel with that big cute red button directly below questions and comments in the comment section and it's always please check out the video description links to Amazon and Newegg for everything discussed in this video will be down there please use those links I would greatly appreciate it there will also be a link to my patreon account do you like this video do let my comparisons my benchmarks my live gameplay you're about to see in just a minute nothing in this video was sponsored I bought all three of these cards Nvidia and the manufacturers did not send them to me I need your support to continue being able to do that so I can give you advice such as don't spend the money on the more expensive cards because it isn't worth it if you like that kind of advice even a dollar a month is greatly appreciated anything you can do to help support me is wonderful and I thank you very very much now with all that being said here are the live game performance videos here is Grand Theft Auto 5 being tested on the sounder sedition 1080p eye graphics card this card is installed in my eye seven seventy seven hundred K build links in the video description below is the full build of that computer so you can see exactly what's in that machine now we are playing at 4k at very high details for 2160p all of the detail settings that can be set to very high are there there's one or two that can only be set to high but basically everything is set to very high full screen anti-aliasing is turned off because frankly some 4k resolution I don't think it's necessary take a look at our real-time frame rate in the upper left hand corner of the screen we're getting a hundred frames per second while this is our current real-time frame rate I'm going to show you a chart in just a few minutes showing the 1% and the 0.1% numbers now this is not the built-in benchmark I don't think the built-in benchmarks accurately reflects real-world performance it does allow you to compare cards and there is something to be said to running built-in benchmarks on comparisons such as this looking at different cards the problem with doing so is it doesn't answer a simple question is this game playable at X details on X car and I think that live gameplay actually shows that I have over an hour of game footage recorded in Grand Theft Auto 5 between these three cards it also means that the 1% lows in the point 1 percent low number actually means something if you do the 1 percent in point 1 percent low on the benchmark it doesn't mean anything the benchmarks not long enough for that to actually represent anything approaching something other than the minimum frame rate if you have 10 minutes of gameplay at 60 frames per second you have 36 thousand frames a 1% low represents enough frames to separate itself from the minimum even a point 1 percent load does where is on a 1-minute benchmark run it's really frankly completely meaningless I have now shifted to the EVGA superclocked 2 cards if you look at the clock rate in the upper left hand corner you'll see that we're about a hundred megahertz faster on this card than we were on the sounders Edition yes that will reflect in a chart that I'll show you in just a few minutes VM speed V RAM usage CPU main system ram usage nothing else really changes the only difference between a founders Edition card and something like the super clock 2 or even next one I'm about to show you is the core clock speed of the graphics card please note the founders Edition does overclock by a hundred megahertz without an issue but the fan belts have to run faster in fact I said it to 80% and then basically it runs at 1900 megahertz without any issue whatsoever in fact all of these cards given some type of overclock run in the mid 1900 megahertz range without any issue the real question is if I didn't tell you which was which could you tell the difference we're getting about 100 frames per second it's a little bit more in places it's a little bit less than others as I said I did about 20 25 minutes on each card each is over an hour between these three I'm not showing it to you of course because if I did it was made for a very long video and frankly I don't think anybody wants to watch all that if you let me know and maybe I'll post a second video and just put the entire runs in there if any of you would actually sit and watch it if you look at our real-time frame rate we get just below 100 there but now we're back up to above 100 is it faster than the founders yes a little bit is it noticeable back-to-back yes but frankly if you only had the founders you really wouldn't notice the difference it is a well that is an epic cool chunk oh that poor Rolls Royce had no idea what was coming - oh well jumping once again we are now on the gigabyte card this is the card that you saw on the desk the aurorus Xtreme card and you can see that our clock seat is just a little bit hotter now I did not manually overclock this card it simply ran at a little bit faster speed out of the box then the super cross too far did why just because it runs based upon environmental temperature this is GPU boost 3.0 at work this is from Nvidia none of these cards run at these speeds you're seeing here per the product spec pages but there's no overclock being applied to them and MSI Afterburner this is simply Auto overclocking at work it is worth noting that the clock speed each card jumps to varies from game to game and frankly from reboot to reboot not by a lot sometimes by 25 megahertz sometimes by 50 megahertz sometimes the cards run a bit faster when they're first run and then they tend to slow down a bit overtime as they tend to heat up a little bit it depends upon the case you have it installed in the case I have these installed in does not have great cooling my rising test machine has better cooling I will be fishing this in fact I've got a transplant plan for my i7 into a better case with better cooling and so it should provide better results in the future I currently have my i7 installed in a fairly simple master box five case it's about a $60 case and nothing special in terms of case cooling so these cards do warm up over time frankly that's the wrong case for such a machine and I acknowledged it when I built it but I simply had the case sitting there which is why you I will be doing a transplant you'll see that your video the reality is for all the clock speed difference between these cards the truth of the matter is the real world performance difference feel a lot less than you might think now pardon me while we engaging carnage here all these people were nice enough excuse me foolish enough to just line up in a row for me no matter how much the cops tried to stop me yeah you guys think you'll get away by running around sorry haha yeah well I know in any case the real-world performance difference between these cards is less than you think sure we're getting 110 112 frames per second but that's just at this moment notice we just get down to 102 101 this is why the game has to be tested for more than two or three minutes it takes me a long time to produce these videos and I've trimmed a huge amount of what's in these videos as I said if you really want to see the whole thing let me know in the comment section below I might put together an hour-long video it just has all the play if you really want to see it I don't know how much demand there is for so I'm going to trim this relatively short let's take a look at the results so here we are at the results the founders Edition averaged 92 frames per second the EVGA card average 96 frames per second and the gigabyte 97 these are rounding errors yes the founder's is a bit slower than the other two but the reality is 92 to 96 is not going to be noticed by the average person unless you really had both cards back-to-back now look at the 1% and the point 1% loads the red bars in the blue bars 64 66 and 70 if you want to play grand theft auto 5 with a minimum frame rate of 60 frames per second at very high detail at 4k you need a GTX 1080p I however either lower the detail too high or accept an average frame rate of 60 rather than a minimum frame rate of 60 and a GTX 1080 will do it just fine you'll save yourself about $200 buying a 1080 in front of a 1080p eye but that's going to have 1% numbers the red bars closer to 40 to 45 instead of sixty-five quick explanation for anybody new to 1% minimums essentially the one percent minimum dropped the bottom 1% of the frames and then simply call that the minimum to translate it 99% of the time you will get at least the red bar speed or better it's not a true minimum but it's a 99% number you'll get that speed or better 99% of the time the blue bars simply takes at one decimal place over 99.9% of the time it's nearly the minimum frame rate in these and these particular runs it's generally dropping a dozen to two dozen frames it is a very small number but what it does allow is for the one time in a 10 minute run that dips down to 40 that no one will ever notice and it's not a big deal so basically these three cards maintain 60 frames per second 99.9 percent of the time and over 60 frames per second 99% of the time next up we have the division now these are three very different maps and areas that I'm playing and I want you to keep that in mind when you look at the results going forward I'm probably going to do all my benchmarking and division in these underground which is what you're watching right here I finally am up to level 30 I've got all my ranks up and all my gear up in the division so the underground is the first expansion to the game and it lets me play in fairly consistent environment whenever I play above-ground where I'm running in the groin game does tend to affect the performance a bit so keep that in mind when you watch the chart at the end of this now we are playing the division at ultra detail take a look at the real time frame rate we are not maintaining 60 frames per second interestingly enough even the division which is over a year old at this point does not maintain 60 frames per second with a gtx 1080i you really have to lower the detail down to one notch below ultra in order to maintain 60 frames per second but I wanted to pick something demanding to show what else was possible and since Ultra is a preset also is what we got for those of you curious the four games that I tested four hours and 47 minutes of total gameplay testing time between the three cards and the four games that is an awful lot of benchmarking in testing to be done and I'm trimming it down to a fairly short number I gave a lot of consideration to how to make this video do I make it four separate videos one game for three cards do I separate out the gameplay and put that into individual card reviews I have made a ton of different videos many of which are long but only cover one game in a couple of cards what I'm trying to do here is go okay this is going to be a long video I get all the talking everything up front now it's going to be a long video of gameplay but I'm going to be putting all these games in here with all these cards and trimming it short to get that look at that hang on I'm interrupting myself because there is a jam or take a look at this I'm using my sniper rifle to take out the jammer the jammer for some reason prevents you from using your skills and to be honest I have become very dependent upon using my skills because they come in really handy ooh XP that's a last name Battalion Journal the collection oh goody now jumping ahead this is the EVGA super crush card notice the clock speed almost 1900 megahertz it's faster than the founders edition of course and it will be reflected in his results the real question is do you see any query of different dilution our frame rate is still in the mid 40 it might be a little higher knock on tire but a little bit higher the truth of the matter is unless I was telling you which of these runs with which you might not actually be able to tell they're closer than you think they're a few percentage points apartments nothing major or grammatic this is ultimately why I don't recommend buying the super expensive versions of the cards if seven hundred to seven hundred and twenty dollar cards is all that you need to buy for example the white triple play and gigabyte card is fine there's no type amp to fan card is fine EVGA superclocked black card without the icx cooler is just fine you don't need all that extra stuff you certainly don't need the for the win 3 or the Rob Strix card from a soos great cards lovely beautiful sure great but they aren't faster or at least they're not faster by an amount that you will notice jumping once again we're now going to be on the gigabyte card a little bit faster clock speed 1936 megahertz but that's not going to affect the results nearly as much as where I'm standing I'm not underground I'm above-ground far more graphically demanding this card was actually tested first before I tested the others and this is one of the last runs I did before I started the underground this is one I'm above-ground I actually had several more division benchmarks recorded that I have not uploaded yet um a few will be above-ground and if you are now going to be underground because I actually have several that I haven't published that were reported a few weeks ago however the performance when you look at the chart of the gigabyte cards reflects the fact that we are in a different place keep that in mind now some people may say why didn't you go back and record this in the underground again almost 5 hours of gameplay was recorded for these 403 cards and for the 4 games and that does not include setup time game load time finding a place to test in recording editing it doesn't include changing the cards out there's a lot that goes into this it took me several days of work to get the results that you're seeing in this one video I can't do this for every video and still publish a video every day and that is where I was left with the big dilemma do I turn this into four separate videos covering the four separate games well that takes money three days worth of work and turns it to four videos so I can publish the video every day the downside is I don't think the videos become very interesting would a video 20 minutes long or even 10 minutes long of just the division and if I titled it which gtx 1080p i should you buy part 3 the division and then miriam just talking about the gameplay ultimately I decided that would be kind of boring I really went back and forth a lot on this trying to figure out how to do it part of my problem is if I want to test games to this level of detail actually running around this much then I have to make a decision either I'm not going to publish a video every day or these videos will be few and far between or I have to break them up into multiple videos or I simply have to not make very many of them that's really the challenge and let me know in the comments below if you've watched to this distance what do we add 29 minutes and 15 seconds is imposing it over let me know whether or not you like this level of detail whether you think these should be broken up into separate videos whether you're okay with the built in benchmark this is ultimately a question that I will have to answer moving forward simply be and look right here at the frame wait you saw when we were inside picking up the fabrics our frame rate jumped to 72 frames per second that's why the frame rate on this is a little bit higher and speaking of the frame rate being higher 50 54 and 58 frames per second average between the three cards that gigabytes up there simply because of where I was in the gameplay for the gigabyte into the underground it will be the same speed as the EVGA maybe 55 frames per second but even giving it the benefit of the doubt of being above ground in sparsely populated areas indoors picking up fabrics it wasn't that much faster more interesting take a look at the blue and red bars the one percent minimum meaning the frame rate you'll get at least 99 percent of the time 38 40 and 42 if you really want to play at 4k resolution on a 1080 TI you need to come down one detail setting from ultra or you need to perhaps take one or two of the detail settings out manually you can play around you don't have to use presets take a look at the point one percent minimums these are pretty bad the truth of the matter is there are no graphics cards that will play all current games at max detail at 4k resolution not even a 1080 Ti it comes close but this is a 1080 Ti and this is a exactly why the GTX 1080 really was never a great 4k card and I played games at 1440p on my 1080 not 4k even though I have 4k monitors it really didn't cut it with a 1080 Ti it does bring the details onto high and you'll get perfect performance now that is this Ghost Recon wildlands one of my new favorite games which really surprised me I did not expect to like this game I got this game as part of the Nvidia bundle and I thought well I'll benchmark it I'll test it some people seem to like it and my first few benchmark to the zoom were of the intromission I did the first mission probably six or seven times and then I got really bored of it and I thought okay fine I'll just find something else to do in the game 45 minutes later long after I need I didn't need to keep benchmarking it I was still playing it I went aha I like this game this is fun now can you guess which card were flying on by looking at the clock speed in the upper left hand corner I certainly hope so we are of course on the founders edition which is what a clock speeds are a little bit lower than the other cards will that reflect in the performance well you'll just have to see look at our VRAM usage we're using just under five gigabytes of vram and we aren't checked at very high detail I tried Ultra not worth showing you the performance is completely unacceptable if the slideshow it's choppy and useless this card will not play this game at ultra detail at anything remotely approaching with reasonable performance even this is rough take a look at our real-time frame rate just driving around I would recommend that you play at high detail now I'm testing in a very high and it'll show you what that is lowers to high much better I play this with the 1080i at high when I play for fun when I play and I'm not benchmarking high is what I play at at 4k they just racially very high it's just way too choppy now making a jump we are on the EVGA superclocked 2 card you can see our clock speed is higher in fact it's bouncing around a little bit as GPU boost is trying to find a happy to need 1920 1911 megahertz excuse me thought I saw 21 there are VRAM usage is about the same CPU usage is fine in fact if these high resolutions when we're completely GPU bound this game generally doesn't use a lot of the CPU now I'm not going to cover here but something interesting is when the frame rate goes higher the CPU usage really makes a big jump in fact I've recently done some 1080p testing on the Rison 7 1700 x with the 1080p eye cards to see whether or not the CPU makes a difference at high refresh rates first of all I'm happy to report that this game does better utilize the multiple cores of horizon chips when at lower resolutions and higher refresh rate and number two yes it really will run in the triple digit framerate when given a lower resolution lower detail setting for example high detail runs comfortably in 120 130 frames per second rate with a 1080p eye now that's a lot of computer to play at 1080p but if you want to get into hundreds of frames per second it really is what's required so with that said mission complete now we're going to jump to the gigabyte CR + speed 1949 megahertz notice the clock speed of the three cards is different in every game this is normal GPU boost from Nvidia auto overclocked the cards to slightly different amounts depending upon reasonably lots of stuff temperature how long the system has been on how demanding the game is what it's using from the cards are all a little bit different and even the same card is going to run at different speeds in different games and maybe even on different days but the truth of the matter and I really want to emphasize this point the difference in performance between 1900 and 1950 is basically nothing trivial you'll never ever in a million years notice that difference how do I know that I played on this more than any of the other games in fact the division runs were the shortest and these were the longest those underground rooms especially general don't run much more than about 10 to 12 minutes each someone run 15 but that's generally about how long they run I have way too much fun clearing the map killing all the bad guys in fact I just got this lieutenant and look this is service the convoy with the supplies delivered right to my front door I can start shooting them without even having to leave my truck how awesome is that of course they think they're going to get away nice try sunshine I can come after you while the runs in the divisions were different I'm actually very proud to stay but the runs of Ghost Recon wildlands were almost identical notice the convoy here same thing I did on the founders instead of trying to do missions and doing day and night lots of complicated stuff I made a point to try to do very similar things on these three runs all I did was drive around get convoys kill people of blastings with the mini guns and they were fairly consistent run basically I was just clearing the map picking up supplies enhancing my skills and abilities etc so when you look at the performance numbers here I'm going to show you in here ooh that was brutal my truck flew up I'm going to show you the performance numbers here in just a second keep in mind that this gigabyte card is in fact running faster than the super clock but not by enough to make a difference now both cards are running at about a hundred to one hundred and fifty megahertz faster than the founders and that is reflected in the performance but when you get down to a few dozen megahertz of clock speed there really is no difference between them between the various cards so let's take a look at the results 54 59 and 59 for an average 46 47 and 47 for the 1% lows basically the EVGA and the gigabyte cards are completely indistinguishable and you will get this same level of performance from any of the open air cooler 10 ATT eyes on the market I feel very very comfortable saying that just based upon the cards I've looked at all the cards I've tested in general and from talking to several other reviewers who have some of the other cards I know - I know a reviewer who's the MSI gaming x9o reviewer who has the soos Republic of gamers tricks card same same basic performance you're going to get exactly the same thing now notice that none of the cards maintain a minimum of 60 frames per second that is why I recommend you play Ghost Recon wildlands at high detail not very high it does get choppy in places notice the 0.1% loads get down there I would recommend you set it to high detail and those minimums will be bumping right up to 60 frames per second and your averages will be closer to 75 to 80 frames per second it'll be a much smoother and a much better overall experience but the big takeaway from this is that basically the founders Edition cards are about 5 to 10 percent slower than the aftermarket cooled cards and then all the aftermarket cool cards are give or take basically the same performance even when the clock speed is not exactly the same as it was in this run now let's take a look at assassin's creed syndicate a game I also didn't think I would like but frankly got into what can I say Evie grew on me she is one of the two sisters who basically you can choose to play the guy order all the wives are exactly the same now this is challenging to both a be fun and interesting and be try to keep consistent when you look at the results I must have either looked at the sky too much or stood on top of the building too much on the EBG a card because when you see the numbers you're going to go wait a minute that doesn't make any sense it just has to do with what you're looking at but consider that the clock speed really tells the tale because the computer in the game doesn't care who made the card what it cares at because the the vram is the same speed the system is the same speed all that makes any difference at all is that core clock speed now the core clock stood at the moment it's about 1800 megahertz watch the clock speed on the EVGA and the gigabyte card and that will basically give you an idea of their performance they're faster than this it's exactly like the other two ooh that was kind of brutal just walked right on by and said excuse me that is a cool ability that I have not grown tired of that even though I've done it for way too many hours she is just epically cool and awesome what can I say so that was the founders edition card here is the EVGA super clock to notice that this game has the highest overclock speed on this card of any of the four games I tested 1911 megahertz that's a nice boost why I don't know but look at the temperature 68 degrees that's probably why it's running a little bit cooler and so the cards running a little bit faster we're using just under five gigabytes of vram really that 11 gigabytes of RAM is complete overkill for everything on the market today but it will be nice to have over the next three years because over the next three years it probably will get used more and more look at our real time frame rate now we are in fact playing at high detail the why high detail I tried very high it's rough and brutal now I showed you the other games of Ghost Recon wildlands and I showed you the division with lower frame rates I wanted to show this as high detail to show you what is playable this this is going to be very very nice if you set this game to either very high or ultra it completely falls apart at 4k and it's another example of a game that simply will not play at max detail at 4k on a 1080 Ti in fact if you set this to ultra it's a flight show now let's jump to the gigabyte card 1936 megahertz so it's a little bit faster than the EVGA card however again as I said different area different stuff flying to the air what was I looking at what was I doing between the cards they are a little bit different these runs are not as consistent as I would prefer the Ghost Recon wildlands and the GTA 5 were the best of the four games I tested and then the division and then this were a little bit often I hate making excuses I know it sounds like I'm making an excuse but what I'm trying to do is give you full and fair disclosure of the testing conditions what I was doing and why the numbers are what they are at the end of the day I want you to know you can look at this and trust the numbers and how I arrived at them and see at least some of the gameplay by the way as I said this jumping between buildings is epic beyond belief it's a too much fun quick cut here just because I want to show you a neat aerial association that nothing changed no cards change I just jumped a little bit forward to keep this shorter um cool slide there watch this see the red lit down there press the left mouse button and we are going to do a diving aerial effect that is so cool and of course somebody wants to attack us so we're going to run and we're going to kill that person and then press our am I going to press off I don't remember what oh now we're just going to fight them what can I say so we're getting about 60 to 70 frames per second playing at high detail frankly you can expect either high or very high detail in most current games x 4k resolution on any of the 1080p i cards this won't hold for very long to be completely honest if you want to play at 4k resolution at least for the foreseeable future you're probably going to be replacing your graphics card every year this is expensive to do I'm going to be doing an upcoming video series with a 780ti 980ti and 1080 TI three and a half years ago the 780ti was a $700 graphics card today the hundred and eighty dollar 1063 gig card beats it yeah no kidding well spoiler alert there but it does now that's going to be at 1080p I tried playing some games at 1440p and 4k on the 780ti boy that was a brutal experience so I scrapped that plan and just dropped it down to 1080p so if you want to see what the 1080 TI looks like at 1080p with high refresh rates and ultra detail those videos are coming up soon all right that's enough jabber let's take a look at the result sixty one sixty nine and sixty six frames per second now the EVGA was quote the fastest card here even though it had a slower that's just again different area of gaming here's the big takeaway that you should be reading from this chart it really doesn't matter which one you buy yes the founders and the blower's cards are a little bit slower you can give them a modest one hundred megahertz overclock if you're willing to kick the fan speed up just a little bit you are going to be able to run those a bit faster and then they'll match the speed of the other ones otherwise by any of the open air cards with two or three fans and you'll get roughly the performance you see here between the EVGA and the gigabyte card one percent and point one percent very nice this game has a very consistent frame rate it's brutal and demanding it's unplayable in all respects at ultra detail but it is a consistent frame rate it doesn't vary wildly all over the place like some other games do I hope you have found this video helpful and useful click that like button share this video with your friends remember to subscribe post your comments below the video please check out the video description for the links to Amazon and Newegg use them when you're shopping it really does make a difference please support me on patreon my link to patreon will be down there if you like my videos in my content if you find this helpful and useful $1 $5 anything you can contribute makes a big big difference and it allows me to keep bringing you these wonderful long detailed in-depth time-consuming to make videos that hopefully answer some questions and make your purchasing decisions easier thank you so much for watching I will see you in the next videohello and welcome to tech deals which GeForce GTX 1080i graphics card should you buy who should buy one of these cards what are they good for and how well do they perform at the three main resolutions of 1080p 1440p and 4k I'm going to cover all that in the video talk about the differences between these cards some other cards on the market you might consider and I'm going to be showing you some live gameplay benchmarks later in this video now first up let me get a couple things out of the way if you want to play modern current games at 4k resolution at 60 plus frames per second stop because you have come to the right place these are the only cards that should be on your shopping list the division Ghost Recon wildlands prey even Grand Theft Auto 5 which will play on lesser cards play best on these if you really want a 4k graphics card you want a 1080 TI they're expensive I know but that's where you should be what about 1440p maybe it depends at 1440p 60 Hertz it's not a requirement however if you want to do 1440p ultra wide at 100 Hertz yes then it does become a requirement 1440p non ultra wide at 144 Hertz yes again requirement what about 1080p well nobody needs to buy one of these for 1080p gaming right don't be so sure if you want to play all current games at Ultra max detail at over 60 frames per second yes you actually do Ghost Recon wildlands which I fully understand is a very demanding title and not necessarily representative of all games but it will not run at ultra detail at over 60 frames per second on anything less than a 1080 ti I will have a video of that in an upcoming video series I'm doing where I actually take a look at 1080p gaming on the 1080 T on I would not normally have thought you needed such a car but I decided try it was actually quite surprised with what it really took to play everything at max detail these days so moving back to 4k and 1440 let me just read that if you have the budget for a card like this frankly the only machine these cards should really go in and this question is bound to be asked what what computer do I need for these cards now you can put these in anything you want but really a modern i7 or an AMD risin 5 1600 or Rison 7 1700 or greater is really what these should be installed in all of the tests that I've done with these cards are going to be in either an Intel i7 7700 K or arisin 7 1700 X if you have a 700 to 750 dollar budget for a graphics card frankly you should have a 350 dollar budget for your CPU otherwise your mismatching components in you're putting too much graphics card in not enough cpu if you've got a 4-year old I 5 you need to upgrade that before you think about spending $700 on a graphics card used after watching this video you decide that a 1080 Ti is in your future the next question is which one Devine well there are two primary types of cards on the market there are blower style cards which is what's here in the middle this is a founders edition but there are other blower style cards that you can find as well and then finally you have the open air coolers such as these two right here what are the differences primarily the blower style coolers run a little bit hotter and a little bit louder than the open air style coolers but they do have the benefit of exhausting most of their heat out the back of the case they intake air through the fan here it sucks air in runs it across the veins and across the heatsink and it exhausted out the vent on the back these style coolers with the two and the three fans generally exhaust the heat out the top and the bottom of the card and keep it within the case the benefit to these cards is they generally have larger heat sinks larger fans they generally run at a cooler temperature and slightly faster clock speeds in general these type of cards are between 5 to 10 percent faster than the blower style cards however the blower style cards generally can be overclocked to run as fast as these at the cost of the and temperature in fact I did run this card at the same speed as these and it ran perfectly fine and stable but the fan had to be run at 80 percent to keep it cool enough at 80 percent it's definitely audible and so if you want a quiet fast card then you want an open-air cooler rather than a blower please note it depends on what kind of case you install these in these cards produce a reasonable amount of heat these leave the heat inside your case you need to make sure that you have a large enough case with enough intake and exhaust fans in your case to get that heat out so that the cards don't heat saturate or heat up your other components such as your hard drive SSD or CPU with a blower style cooler this tends to work better in smaller cases such as an ITX case or a mini ATX case where you don't have a lot of airflow and this allows most of the heat of the car to be exhausted at the back while it is not as fast out of the box it's close but not as fast out of the box as these are it certainly is a lot faster if these have to start thermally throttling because you've installed them in cases with inadequate airflow now as far as price goes the founder's Edition and most of the blower cards are going to be found right at about 700 dollars at least in May of 2017 when I'm filming this they'll come down over time the aftermarket cards also can be found for $700 but they can also be found for closer to $800 the for the wind three triple fan Edition from eg B BGA for example and the assist Republic of gamers Strix card are both seven hundred and eighty dollars are they worth the money not from a performance point of view they're not but you might like them for their lighting or their aesthetics or their sides or simply because you like owning the best however when it comes to performance all of the blower style cards run about the same and all of the open-air cards run about the same the differences are noise style aesthetics brand and simply personal preference things like RGB lighting and the like the truth of the matter is is the $700 open-air cards and the 780 dollar open-air car it's all run at about the same speed and no you really can't overclock the top-end cards substantially faster than the more entry-level cards and the reason for that is because they're not templum nted their power delivery and chip design limited their voltage limited you don't buy the bigger cards with the fancier coolers because you need more cooling because cooling is not the limitation voltage is the primary limitation and you can't adjust it enough to make any difference so if you think before the wind 3 from EVGA or the assist Republic of gamers Strix card are just awesome looking and you want them because you think they're cool go for it but they're not faster the deal are the seven hundred to seven hundred and twenty dollar cards does otech amp Edition either the $720 version of this or the white one for seven hundred the superclocked Black Edition which is seven hundred and twenty from EBG A or even one of the blower style cards if you have a smaller case it is simply not worth spending seven hundred and fifty to 704 May performance point of view now I want to show you the new aid page for the 1080i and 1080p I founders editions cards just really briefly to scroll through them and talk about them the first three cards you will see here our founders editions cards they're from three different companies but they're all the same card P and ye BGA and gigabyte buy the cheapest one if you want to founders Edition card scrolling down we come down to the first aftermarket card that I do actually recommend and this is that white triple fan card from gigabyte it is not factory overclocked as high as the RS card that was on my desk but for 700 this is a deal and frankly you will never notice any performance difference between this card and the one that I showed you on the desk scrolling down from there we have three more founders editions cards a soos MSI and ZOTAC again buy based on price scrolling down from there we see the msi armor would i buy an armor OC gtx ten ATT i know this is actually a pretty small cooler all things considered from looking at reviews of this card from other reviewers it does tend to run I would skip the msi armor now that does not make the game EXO bad car that's a different story completely we'll get to that in a minute but the armor the black and white skip then we come down to three blower style cards that are a little bit different than founders editions same price basically the same performance however if you like the color look and style of these cards more than the founders editions by all means get them because they're basically the same card with a different color shape etc cooler on them scrolling down from there we come to some additional aftermarket cards first we have the EVGA superclocked black now this is not what's on the desk what I have on the desk is the super clock 2 card with the icx cooler we'll get to that in a minute I would actually buy this one instead of the one that's on the desk the reason I bought the ones on the desk was to buy the best can see how overclockable they were they're not so if I'm buying for myself this is the one I'd buy if I want EVGA P&Y for 720 here's a very nice triple fing card you're not going to have any issues with heat or temps with that thing then we come down to the gigabyte aurorus I call it a roars Horus it depends on how you want to pronounce it now there's two of these this isn't also not the one on my desk I have the Extreme Edition which didn't overclock any better than this one does so by this one unless for example you just want Extreme Edition in the name then we come down to the zotac amp Edition actually quite like this card both from appearance from its power delivery design it's got a 16 plus 2 that is a massively over-engineered power delivery system for seven hundred and twenty-five dollars that's a nice card if you like ZOTAC if you get a deal on it I recommend that card then we come down to the other msi card gaming x great card fair price a little bit more than the others but if you like the design this has a top-end cooler on it fully recommended very nice card this gigabyte here this is what's actually on the in fact I'll scroll down here these two cards on the bottom here are what's on the desk the super clock 2 and the Extreme Edition gigabyte car they're fine they're lovely cards they work great I'm going to show you some gameplay in just a minute but you're spending more money and not getting any more performance please keep that in mind when we come up from these two cards now here is an MSI card with a massive cooler on it for 750 dollars it's personal preference do you like that they came out with this it looks different than the red and black gaming X do you like the gaming X buy that do you like the look of this duke card which is what they're calling this buy it instead same difference same thing here with the zotac amp Extreme Edition up here I talked about how much I like this amp Edition now this has two fans and it's much smaller but again we're not temp limited we come down to the zotac extreme imp extreme edition same 16 plus 2 power phase delivery system it does come at a higher clock speed out of the box but it does not matter GPU boost from Nvidia auto overclocks all of these cards none of them run these speeds so the speeds are shipped out really doesn't make a big difference in fact you'll see there's two of them here be cautious this is a massive heavy cooler it weighs a ton you need a big big case and a strong case and a strong motherboard for that big card and then finally we come down here to the serious republic of gamers and the for the win three buy these because you want the branding to look the style you want to be able to say I have a for the win or a Rob Strix card buy them for their features not their performance they're not bad cards they're great they're just a little bit on the expensive side if you can find these on sale or a deal any point in the future by all means get them I would now that was a quick look at the cards currently available on Newegg my opinion on each of them in which one I think different people should bond now coming up next is going to be some quick live gameplay on each of these cards that I'm going to voice over and narrate and talk about but since that makes this video longer and not everybody wants to watch it I'm going to go ahead and put the ending here before we switch to full screen like this video if you liked it share it with friends if you loved it remember to subscribe to my channel with that big cute red button directly below questions and comments in the comment section and it's always please check out the video description links to Amazon and Newegg for everything discussed in this video will be down there please use those links I would greatly appreciate it there will also be a link to my patreon account do you like this video do let my comparisons my benchmarks my live gameplay you're about to see in just a minute nothing in this video was sponsored I bought all three of these cards Nvidia and the manufacturers did not send them to me I need your support to continue being able to do that so I can give you advice such as don't spend the money on the more expensive cards because it isn't worth it if you like that kind of advice even a dollar a month is greatly appreciated anything you can do to help support me is wonderful and I thank you very very much now with all that being said here are the live game performance videos here is Grand Theft Auto 5 being tested on the sounder sedition 1080p eye graphics card this card is installed in my eye seven seventy seven hundred K build links in the video description below is the full build of that computer so you can see exactly what's in that machine now we are playing at 4k at very high details for 2160p all of the detail settings that can be set to very high are there there's one or two that can only be set to high but basically everything is set to very high full screen anti-aliasing is turned off because frankly some 4k resolution I don't think it's necessary take a look at our real-time frame rate in the upper left hand corner of the screen we're getting a hundred frames per second while this is our current real-time frame rate I'm going to show you a chart in just a few minutes showing the 1% and the 0.1% numbers now this is not the built-in benchmark I don't think the built-in benchmarks accurately reflects real-world performance it does allow you to compare cards and there is something to be said to running built-in benchmarks on comparisons such as this looking at different cards the problem with doing so is it doesn't answer a simple question is this game playable at X details on X car and I think that live gameplay actually shows that I have over an hour of game footage recorded in Grand Theft Auto 5 between these three cards it also means that the 1% lows in the point 1 percent low number actually means something if you do the 1 percent in point 1 percent low on the benchmark it doesn't mean anything the benchmarks not long enough for that to actually represent anything approaching something other than the minimum frame rate if you have 10 minutes of gameplay at 60 frames per second you have 36 thousand frames a 1% low represents enough frames to separate itself from the minimum even a point 1 percent load does where is on a 1-minute benchmark run it's really frankly completely meaningless I have now shifted to the EVGA superclocked 2 cards if you look at the clock rate in the upper left hand corner you'll see that we're about a hundred megahertz faster on this card than we were on the sounders Edition yes that will reflect in a chart that I'll show you in just a few minutes VM speed V RAM usage CPU main system ram usage nothing else really changes the only difference between a founders Edition card and something like the super clock 2 or even next one I'm about to show you is the core clock speed of the graphics card please note the founders Edition does overclock by a hundred megahertz without an issue but the fan belts have to run faster in fact I said it to 80% and then basically it runs at 1900 megahertz without any issue whatsoever in fact all of these cards given some type of overclock run in the mid 1900 megahertz range without any issue the real question is if I didn't tell you which was which could you tell the difference we're getting about 100 frames per second it's a little bit more in places it's a little bit less than others as I said I did about 20 25 minutes on each card each is over an hour between these three I'm not showing it to you of course because if I did it was made for a very long video and frankly I don't think anybody wants to watch all that if you let me know and maybe I'll post a second video and just put the entire runs in there if any of you would actually sit and watch it if you look at our real-time frame rate we get just below 100 there but now we're back up to above 100 is it faster than the founders yes a little bit is it noticeable back-to-back yes but frankly if you only had the founders you really wouldn't notice the difference it is a well that is an epic cool chunk oh that poor Rolls Royce had no idea what was coming - oh well jumping once again we are now on the gigabyte card this is the card that you saw on the desk the aurorus Xtreme card and you can see that our clock seat is just a little bit hotter now I did not manually overclock this card it simply ran at a little bit faster speed out of the box then the super cross too far did why just because it runs based upon environmental temperature this is GPU boost 3.0 at work this is from Nvidia none of these cards run at these speeds you're seeing here per the product spec pages but there's no overclock being applied to them and MSI Afterburner this is simply Auto overclocking at work it is worth noting that the clock speed each card jumps to varies from game to game and frankly from reboot to reboot not by a lot sometimes by 25 megahertz sometimes by 50 megahertz sometimes the cards run a bit faster when they're first run and then they tend to slow down a bit overtime as they tend to heat up a little bit it depends upon the case you have it installed in the case I have these installed in does not have great cooling my rising test machine has better cooling I will be fishing this in fact I've got a transplant plan for my i7 into a better case with better cooling and so it should provide better results in the future I currently have my i7 installed in a fairly simple master box five case it's about a $60 case and nothing special in terms of case cooling so these cards do warm up over time frankly that's the wrong case for such a machine and I acknowledged it when I built it but I simply had the case sitting there which is why you I will be doing a transplant you'll see that your video the reality is for all the clock speed difference between these cards the truth of the matter is the real world performance difference feel a lot less than you might think now pardon me while we engaging carnage here all these people were nice enough excuse me foolish enough to just line up in a row for me no matter how much the cops tried to stop me yeah you guys think you'll get away by running around sorry haha yeah well I know in any case the real-world performance difference between these cards is less than you think sure we're getting 110 112 frames per second but that's just at this moment notice we just get down to 102 101 this is why the game has to be tested for more than two or three minutes it takes me a long time to produce these videos and I've trimmed a huge amount of what's in these videos as I said if you really want to see the whole thing let me know in the comment section below I might put together an hour-long video it just has all the play if you really want to see it I don't know how much demand there is for so I'm going to trim this relatively short let's take a look at the results so here we are at the results the founders Edition averaged 92 frames per second the EVGA card average 96 frames per second and the gigabyte 97 these are rounding errors yes the founder's is a bit slower than the other two but the reality is 92 to 96 is not going to be noticed by the average person unless you really had both cards back-to-back now look at the 1% and the point 1% loads the red bars in the blue bars 64 66 and 70 if you want to play grand theft auto 5 with a minimum frame rate of 60 frames per second at very high detail at 4k you need a GTX 1080p I however either lower the detail too high or accept an average frame rate of 60 rather than a minimum frame rate of 60 and a GTX 1080 will do it just fine you'll save yourself about $200 buying a 1080 in front of a 1080p eye but that's going to have 1% numbers the red bars closer to 40 to 45 instead of sixty-five quick explanation for anybody new to 1% minimums essentially the one percent minimum dropped the bottom 1% of the frames and then simply call that the minimum to translate it 99% of the time you will get at least the red bar speed or better it's not a true minimum but it's a 99% number you'll get that speed or better 99% of the time the blue bars simply takes at one decimal place over 99.9% of the time it's nearly the minimum frame rate in these and these particular runs it's generally dropping a dozen to two dozen frames it is a very small number but what it does allow is for the one time in a 10 minute run that dips down to 40 that no one will ever notice and it's not a big deal so basically these three cards maintain 60 frames per second 99.9 percent of the time and over 60 frames per second 99% of the time next up we have the division now these are three very different maps and areas that I'm playing and I want you to keep that in mind when you look at the results going forward I'm probably going to do all my benchmarking and division in these underground which is what you're watching right here I finally am up to level 30 I've got all my ranks up and all my gear up in the division so the underground is the first expansion to the game and it lets me play in fairly consistent environment whenever I play above-ground where I'm running in the groin game does tend to affect the performance a bit so keep that in mind when you watch the chart at the end of this now we are playing the division at ultra detail take a look at the real time frame rate we are not maintaining 60 frames per second interestingly enough even the division which is over a year old at this point does not maintain 60 frames per second with a gtx 1080i you really have to lower the detail down to one notch below ultra in order to maintain 60 frames per second but I wanted to pick something demanding to show what else was possible and since Ultra is a preset also is what we got for those of you curious the four games that I tested four hours and 47 minutes of total gameplay testing time between the three cards and the four games that is an awful lot of benchmarking in testing to be done and I'm trimming it down to a fairly short number I gave a lot of consideration to how to make this video do I make it four separate videos one game for three cards do I separate out the gameplay and put that into individual card reviews I have made a ton of different videos many of which are long but only cover one game in a couple of cards what I'm trying to do here is go okay this is going to be a long video I get all the talking everything up front now it's going to be a long video of gameplay but I'm going to be putting all these games in here with all these cards and trimming it short to get that look at that hang on I'm interrupting myself because there is a jam or take a look at this I'm using my sniper rifle to take out the jammer the jammer for some reason prevents you from using your skills and to be honest I have become very dependent upon using my skills because they come in really handy ooh XP that's a last name Battalion Journal the collection oh goody now jumping ahead this is the EVGA super crush card notice the clock speed almost 1900 megahertz it's faster than the founders edition of course and it will be reflected in his results the real question is do you see any query of different dilution our frame rate is still in the mid 40 it might be a little higher knock on tire but a little bit higher the truth of the matter is unless I was telling you which of these runs with which you might not actually be able to tell they're closer than you think they're a few percentage points apartments nothing major or grammatic this is ultimately why I don't recommend buying the super expensive versions of the cards if seven hundred to seven hundred and twenty dollar cards is all that you need to buy for example the white triple play and gigabyte card is fine there's no type amp to fan card is fine EVGA superclocked black card without the icx cooler is just fine you don't need all that extra stuff you certainly don't need the for the win 3 or the Rob Strix card from a soos great cards lovely beautiful sure great but they aren't faster or at least they're not faster by an amount that you will notice jumping once again we're now going to be on the gigabyte card a little bit faster clock speed 1936 megahertz but that's not going to affect the results nearly as much as where I'm standing I'm not underground I'm above-ground far more graphically demanding this card was actually tested first before I tested the others and this is one of the last runs I did before I started the underground this is one I'm above-ground I actually had several more division benchmarks recorded that I have not uploaded yet um a few will be above-ground and if you are now going to be underground because I actually have several that I haven't published that were reported a few weeks ago however the performance when you look at the chart of the gigabyte cards reflects the fact that we are in a different place keep that in mind now some people may say why didn't you go back and record this in the underground again almost 5 hours of gameplay was recorded for these 403 cards and for the 4 games and that does not include setup time game load time finding a place to test in recording editing it doesn't include changing the cards out there's a lot that goes into this it took me several days of work to get the results that you're seeing in this one video I can't do this for every video and still publish a video every day and that is where I was left with the big dilemma do I turn this into four separate videos covering the four separate games well that takes money three days worth of work and turns it to four videos so I can publish the video every day the downside is I don't think the videos become very interesting would a video 20 minutes long or even 10 minutes long of just the division and if I titled it which gtx 1080p i should you buy part 3 the division and then miriam just talking about the gameplay ultimately I decided that would be kind of boring I really went back and forth a lot on this trying to figure out how to do it part of my problem is if I want to test games to this level of detail actually running around this much then I have to make a decision either I'm not going to publish a video every day or these videos will be few and far between or I have to break them up into multiple videos or I simply have to not make very many of them that's really the challenge and let me know in the comments below if you've watched to this distance what do we add 29 minutes and 15 seconds is imposing it over let me know whether or not you like this level of detail whether you think these should be broken up into separate videos whether you're okay with the built in benchmark this is ultimately a question that I will have to answer moving forward simply be and look right here at the frame wait you saw when we were inside picking up the fabrics our frame rate jumped to 72 frames per second that's why the frame rate on this is a little bit higher and speaking of the frame rate being higher 50 54 and 58 frames per second average between the three cards that gigabytes up there simply because of where I was in the gameplay for the gigabyte into the underground it will be the same speed as the EVGA maybe 55 frames per second but even giving it the benefit of the doubt of being above ground in sparsely populated areas indoors picking up fabrics it wasn't that much faster more interesting take a look at the blue and red bars the one percent minimum meaning the frame rate you'll get at least 99 percent of the time 38 40 and 42 if you really want to play at 4k resolution on a 1080 TI you need to come down one detail setting from ultra or you need to perhaps take one or two of the detail settings out manually you can play around you don't have to use presets take a look at the point one percent minimums these are pretty bad the truth of the matter is there are no graphics cards that will play all current games at max detail at 4k resolution not even a 1080 Ti it comes close but this is a 1080 Ti and this is a exactly why the GTX 1080 really was never a great 4k card and I played games at 1440p on my 1080 not 4k even though I have 4k monitors it really didn't cut it with a 1080 Ti it does bring the details onto high and you'll get perfect performance now that is this Ghost Recon wildlands one of my new favorite games which really surprised me I did not expect to like this game I got this game as part of the Nvidia bundle and I thought well I'll benchmark it I'll test it some people seem to like it and my first few benchmark to the zoom were of the intromission I did the first mission probably six or seven times and then I got really bored of it and I thought okay fine I'll just find something else to do in the game 45 minutes later long after I need I didn't need to keep benchmarking it I was still playing it I went aha I like this game this is fun now can you guess which card were flying on by looking at the clock speed in the upper left hand corner I certainly hope so we are of course on the founders edition which is what a clock speeds are a little bit lower than the other cards will that reflect in the performance well you'll just have to see look at our VRAM usage we're using just under five gigabytes of vram and we aren't checked at very high detail I tried Ultra not worth showing you the performance is completely unacceptable if the slideshow it's choppy and useless this card will not play this game at ultra detail at anything remotely approaching with reasonable performance even this is rough take a look at our real-time frame rate just driving around I would recommend that you play at high detail now I'm testing in a very high and it'll show you what that is lowers to high much better I play this with the 1080i at high when I play for fun when I play and I'm not benchmarking high is what I play at at 4k they just racially very high it's just way too choppy now making a jump we are on the EVGA superclocked 2 card you can see our clock speed is higher in fact it's bouncing around a little bit as GPU boost is trying to find a happy to need 1920 1911 megahertz excuse me thought I saw 21 there are VRAM usage is about the same CPU usage is fine in fact if these high resolutions when we're completely GPU bound this game generally doesn't use a lot of the CPU now I'm not going to cover here but something interesting is when the frame rate goes higher the CPU usage really makes a big jump in fact I've recently done some 1080p testing on the Rison 7 1700 x with the 1080p eye cards to see whether or not the CPU makes a difference at high refresh rates first of all I'm happy to report that this game does better utilize the multiple cores of horizon chips when at lower resolutions and higher refresh rate and number two yes it really will run in the triple digit framerate when given a lower resolution lower detail setting for example high detail runs comfortably in 120 130 frames per second rate with a 1080p eye now that's a lot of computer to play at 1080p but if you want to get into hundreds of frames per second it really is what's required so with that said mission complete now we're going to jump to the gigabyte CR + speed 1949 megahertz notice the clock speed of the three cards is different in every game this is normal GPU boost from Nvidia auto overclocked the cards to slightly different amounts depending upon reasonably lots of stuff temperature how long the system has been on how demanding the game is what it's using from the cards are all a little bit different and even the same card is going to run at different speeds in different games and maybe even on different days but the truth of the matter and I really want to emphasize this point the difference in performance between 1900 and 1950 is basically nothing trivial you'll never ever in a million years notice that difference how do I know that I played on this more than any of the other games in fact the division runs were the shortest and these were the longest those underground rooms especially general don't run much more than about 10 to 12 minutes each someone run 15 but that's generally about how long they run I have way too much fun clearing the map killing all the bad guys in fact I just got this lieutenant and look this is service the convoy with the supplies delivered right to my front door I can start shooting them without even having to leave my truck how awesome is that of course they think they're going to get away nice try sunshine I can come after you while the runs in the divisions were different I'm actually very proud to stay but the runs of Ghost Recon wildlands were almost identical notice the convoy here same thing I did on the founders instead of trying to do missions and doing day and night lots of complicated stuff I made a point to try to do very similar things on these three runs all I did was drive around get convoys kill people of blastings with the mini guns and they were fairly consistent run basically I was just clearing the map picking up supplies enhancing my skills and abilities etc so when you look at the performance numbers here I'm going to show you in here ooh that was brutal my truck flew up I'm going to show you the performance numbers here in just a second keep in mind that this gigabyte card is in fact running faster than the super clock but not by enough to make a difference now both cards are running at about a hundred to one hundred and fifty megahertz faster than the founders and that is reflected in the performance but when you get down to a few dozen megahertz of clock speed there really is no difference between them between the various cards so let's take a look at the results 54 59 and 59 for an average 46 47 and 47 for the 1% lows basically the EVGA and the gigabyte cards are completely indistinguishable and you will get this same level of performance from any of the open air cooler 10 ATT eyes on the market I feel very very comfortable saying that just based upon the cards I've looked at all the cards I've tested in general and from talking to several other reviewers who have some of the other cards I know - I know a reviewer who's the MSI gaming x9o reviewer who has the soos Republic of gamers tricks card same same basic performance you're going to get exactly the same thing now notice that none of the cards maintain a minimum of 60 frames per second that is why I recommend you play Ghost Recon wildlands at high detail not very high it does get choppy in places notice the 0.1% loads get down there I would recommend you set it to high detail and those minimums will be bumping right up to 60 frames per second and your averages will be closer to 75 to 80 frames per second it'll be a much smoother and a much better overall experience but the big takeaway from this is that basically the founders Edition cards are about 5 to 10 percent slower than the aftermarket cooled cards and then all the aftermarket cool cards are give or take basically the same performance even when the clock speed is not exactly the same as it was in this run now let's take a look at assassin's creed syndicate a game I also didn't think I would like but frankly got into what can I say Evie grew on me she is one of the two sisters who basically you can choose to play the guy order all the wives are exactly the same now this is challenging to both a be fun and interesting and be try to keep consistent when you look at the results I must have either looked at the sky too much or stood on top of the building too much on the EBG a card because when you see the numbers you're going to go wait a minute that doesn't make any sense it just has to do with what you're looking at but consider that the clock speed really tells the tale because the computer in the game doesn't care who made the card what it cares at because the the vram is the same speed the system is the same speed all that makes any difference at all is that core clock speed now the core clock stood at the moment it's about 1800 megahertz watch the clock speed on the EVGA and the gigabyte card and that will basically give you an idea of their performance they're faster than this it's exactly like the other two ooh that was kind of brutal just walked right on by and said excuse me that is a cool ability that I have not grown tired of that even though I've done it for way too many hours she is just epically cool and awesome what can I say so that was the founders edition card here is the EVGA super clock to notice that this game has the highest overclock speed on this card of any of the four games I tested 1911 megahertz that's a nice boost why I don't know but look at the temperature 68 degrees that's probably why it's running a little bit cooler and so the cards running a little bit faster we're using just under five gigabytes of vram really that 11 gigabytes of RAM is complete overkill for everything on the market today but it will be nice to have over the next three years because over the next three years it probably will get used more and more look at our real time frame rate now we are in fact playing at high detail the why high detail I tried very high it's rough and brutal now I showed you the other games of Ghost Recon wildlands and I showed you the division with lower frame rates I wanted to show this as high detail to show you what is playable this this is going to be very very nice if you set this game to either very high or ultra it completely falls apart at 4k and it's another example of a game that simply will not play at max detail at 4k on a 1080 Ti in fact if you set this to ultra it's a flight show now let's jump to the gigabyte card 1936 megahertz so it's a little bit faster than the EVGA card however again as I said different area different stuff flying to the air what was I looking at what was I doing between the cards they are a little bit different these runs are not as consistent as I would prefer the Ghost Recon wildlands and the GTA 5 were the best of the four games I tested and then the division and then this were a little bit often I hate making excuses I know it sounds like I'm making an excuse but what I'm trying to do is give you full and fair disclosure of the testing conditions what I was doing and why the numbers are what they are at the end of the day I want you to know you can look at this and trust the numbers and how I arrived at them and see at least some of the gameplay by the way as I said this jumping between buildings is epic beyond belief it's a too much fun quick cut here just because I want to show you a neat aerial association that nothing changed no cards change I just jumped a little bit forward to keep this shorter um cool slide there watch this see the red lit down there press the left mouse button and we are going to do a diving aerial effect that is so cool and of course somebody wants to attack us so we're going to run and we're going to kill that person and then press our am I going to press off I don't remember what oh now we're just going to fight them what can I say so we're getting about 60 to 70 frames per second playing at high detail frankly you can expect either high or very high detail in most current games x 4k resolution on any of the 1080p i cards this won't hold for very long to be completely honest if you want to play at 4k resolution at least for the foreseeable future you're probably going to be replacing your graphics card every year this is expensive to do I'm going to be doing an upcoming video series with a 780ti 980ti and 1080 TI three and a half years ago the 780ti was a $700 graphics card today the hundred and eighty dollar 1063 gig card beats it yeah no kidding well spoiler alert there but it does now that's going to be at 1080p I tried playing some games at 1440p and 4k on the 780ti boy that was a brutal experience so I scrapped that plan and just dropped it down to 1080p so if you want to see what the 1080 TI looks like at 1080p with high refresh rates and ultra detail those videos are coming up soon all right that's enough jabber let's take a look at the result sixty one sixty nine and sixty six frames per second now the EVGA was quote the fastest card here even though it had a slower that's just again different area of gaming here's the big takeaway that you should be reading from this chart it really doesn't matter which one you buy yes the founders and the blower's cards are a little bit slower you can give them a modest one hundred megahertz overclock if you're willing to kick the fan speed up just a little bit you are going to be able to run those a bit faster and then they'll match the speed of the other ones otherwise by any of the open air cards with two or three fans and you'll get roughly the performance you see here between the EVGA and the gigabyte card one percent and point one percent very nice this game has a very consistent frame rate it's brutal and demanding it's unplayable in all respects at ultra detail but it is a consistent frame rate it doesn't vary wildly all over the place like some other games do I hope you have found this video helpful and useful click that like button share this video with your friends remember to subscribe post your comments below the video please check out the video description for the links to Amazon and Newegg use them when you're 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