 This video is brought to you by our trusted partner Intel. For a limited time only with the purchase of any unlocked Core i5 or Core i7 Intel CPU, get a free Intel beanie with a chance to win an Intel snowboard. Valid for Canadian and US customers only, some restrictions apply. For complete details, visit IntelGamingPromo.com. Welcome to our Battlefield 3 GPU Showdown, where we take four different price points, $100, $200, $300, and $400. All of these are sort of US dollars and, you know, Canadian, US pricing-ish. And we find out what's the best video card for you in a given price point, putting AMD and Nvidia head-to-head at those different price segments. Let's start with our test bench. We've got a 3960X at 4 GHz with a Corsair H100 cooling it off, 16 gigs of 1600 MHz memory in a SUSE P9X79 Deluxe motherboard. Our video card varies. Obviously, we swap them in and out depending on what we need to do, and powering this whole thing is an Antec Hi-Current Pro 1000 Watt 80 Plus Platinum power supply. We also have a 128 gig boot SSD where we run all the benchmarks off to prevent any kind of weird, like, loading time glitch from causing any kinds of issues. And without further ado, let's get into it. Methodology-wise, it's pretty simple. We do a two-minute run-through at the beginning of the comrade's level. We always run in 1080p, and if you want to replicate our run-through, you can check out our separate video showing exactly how we generate these results. I'd like to introduce our contenders. At the approximately $100 price point, we've got this guy, the 7770 at $119.99, the GTX 650 at $114.99, the GTX 660 at $229.99, the 7870 at $239, the 660 Ti at $289, the 7950 at $299, the GTX 670, which is actually on the test bench over there, at $369, and the 7970 at $394. Now, we try to get things as close as we can. We use the second lowest price point for any given GPU on NCIX to determine where these cards fall into place. I mean, a lot of people have asked us, where's the 680? Well, it's priced significantly higher than any of the other cards, so it's not there, unfortunately, because in some territories, 7970 might be close to 680, but here it isn't really. So that just leads us to the results, and this one's actually pretty close. So the 7770 versus the GTX 650. The 7770 pulls away by about 10%, but it costs about 5% more, so it's pretty darn close to a tie. Next up, we've got our next price bracket. So this one, we didn't really stay that close to 200 here. We got a little bit over. So the GTX 660 is $230, and the HD 7870 was around $240, but this is such a good value price point that we sort of went that route anyway. You're usually better off to spend a little bit more. So in this case, we saw the same thing where the 7870 pulled ahead by about 12%, 13%, but the 660 was a little bit less expensive. So again, sort of a wash if I had to give the nod to someone, it'd be to AMD on that one. Next up, 7950 versus 660 Ti. Both of these are great overclocking cards. Both of these are great value cards around the $300 price point, but the nod goes to the 7950 on this one, because while it only costs about 3% more, it outperforms the 660 Ti once they're both overclocked to the max by about 10% to 12%. So a significant victory there, I guess, if you would call that a significant victory. And then last but not least, 7970 versus 670. The 670 didn't perform as well as we would have liked to see, and the 7970 did beat it by about 10%, but it's about 10% more expensive, so I guess that's okay then. So there you go, guys. It's kind of hard to go wrong. This is the thing that happens with mature drivers. This is a bit of an older game, so we're using release drivers on all the cards with slightly older games and with product stacks that have had pricing adjusted already to compensate for all the other products that exist in the market. What you find is that they deliver performance that's pretty much on par with what you'd expect for the price you're paying. So if you're playing Battlefield 3, go AMD, go Nvidia. It looks like it doesn't really matter because the game does not support PhysX, so you're not going to get any benefit on that side. However, I guess if you were going to play in Surround, you may want to go AMD because I do find iFINITY provides a very good gaming experience. Thank you for checking out this video, and as always, don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.