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Best Bench: 54% MSI(1462 3160)
Worst Bench: 43% MSI(1462 3160)

Poor: 43% Great: 54%

SPEED RANK: 132^nd / 713

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Best Bench: 88% Zotac(19DA 1435)
Worst Bench: 71% PNY(196E 11A0) ≥ 4GB

Poor: 71% Great: 88%

SPEED RANK: 89^th / 713


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		49.1 %			79.7 %	Much faster effective speed. +62%


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	60.4 fps	98.6 fps	Much better lighting effects. +63%
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	70.3 fps	112 fps	Much better reflection handling. +59%
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	66.6 fps	93 fps	Much faster multi rendering. +40%
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	61.2 fps	97.9 fps	Much faster NBody calculation. +60%


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	67.8 fps	110 fps	Much better peak lighting effects. +62%
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	94.9 fps	156 fps	Much better peak reflection handling. +64%
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	69.7 fps	99.3 fps	Much faster peak multi rendering. +42%
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	66.5 fps	106 fps	Much faster peak NBody calculation. +59%


CSGO Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	156 Fps	193 Fps	Better CSGO Fps. +24%
Fortnite Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	94 Fps	121 Fps	Better Fortnite Fps. +29%
PUBG Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	63 Fps	80 Fps	Better PUBG Fps. +28%
GTAV Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	53 Fps	78 Fps	Much Better GTAV Fps. +47%
LoL Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	156 Fps	202 Fps	Better LoL Fps. +29%
Overwatch Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	97 Fps	115 Fps	Better Overwatch Fps. +18%
BF1 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	62 Fps	95 Fps	Much Better BF1 Fps. +53%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	48 Fps	81 Fps	Much Better The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Fps. +69%
Minecraft Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	189 Fps	253 Fps	Much Better Minecraft Fps. +34%
DOTA 2 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	121 Fps	145 Fps	Better DOTA 2 Fps. +19%
WoW Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	63 Fps	89 Fps	Much Better WoW Fps. +40%
WoT Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	97 Fps	128 Fps	Much Better WoT Fps. +32%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.77 %		1.73 %	Hugely higher market share. +125%
Value Value For Money	58.2 %		67.9 %	Better value. +17%
User Rating UBM User Rating	70 %		78 %	More popular. +11%
Price Price (score)	$200	Cheaper. +28%	$278


Age Newest	122 Months	101 Months	More recent. +17%
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	67.7 fps	110 fps	Much better peak texture detail. +62%
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	58.3 fps	103 fps	Much faster peak complex splatting. +77%
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	61 fps	98.2 fps	Much better texture detail. +61%
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	53.6 fps	96.2 fps	Much faster complex splatting. +79%

The Nvidia GTX 970 is a game changer in terms of performance per watt and value for money. The GTX 970 is based on Nvidia's ground-breaking Maxwell architecture which delivers considerable clock for clock performance gains over Kepler, its predecessor. Comparing the GTX 970 and 780 Ti shows that the two cards offer comparable performance yet the new GTX 970 costs nearly half as much! Unsurprisingly Nvidia are discontinuing the 780 Ti as it's now largely redundant. These price to performance gains typically occur once or twice a decade and although the new Maxwell architecture will improve down the line with the release of the Ti/Titan versions, at the moment the 970 offers the best value for money on the market by miles. Since this summary was originally written AMD have slashed prices and older Nvidia models (780/780 Ti/770) have also been hugely discounted. See the latest value for money rankings here. ^{[Jul '15 GPUPro]}

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The GTX 1070 is Nvidia’s second graphics card (after the 1080) to feature the new 16 nm Pascal architecture. As a result of the die shrink from 28 to 16 nm, Pascal based cards are more energy efficient than their predecessors. The GTX 1070 is rated at just 150 Watts. In terms of performance the gap between the flagship 1080 and 1070 averages 25%. Both GPUs have 8GB of DDR5 and although they share the same processing core (GP104), the 1070 has 25% of its resources disabled. Comparing performance between the 1070 and legendary GTX 970 shows that the newer 1070 wins by a whopping 50%. The GTX 1070 has only just hit the market so, at least for the time being, prices are significantly over the Founders Edition MSRP of $450 but Nvidia have stated that they expect third party cards to sell from $379 at which time the 1070 will likely dominate as the value for money leader. ^{[Jun '16 GPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $210	Nvidia RTX 4060 $285	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $130
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