 Welcome to another GPU Showdown! This time it's Bioshock Infinite, we've been asked for this a lot. We're using the very latest drivers available from both the green team and the red team because we wanted to make sure that they've had a chance to put their appropriate optimizations in before we did our benchmarking sort of guide as well as our showdown. And I'm really excited to show this to you guys, so let's start with our test bench. We've got a 3960X Extreme Edition processor from Intel clocked at 4 GHz, 16 gigs of Kingston DDR3 1600 MHz RAM, an ASUS P9X79 Deluxe motherboard, an Antec 1000 Watt high-current Platinum power supply 128 gig SSD, and it's all cooled by a Corsair H100. Now obviously the graphics card changes, but we've got four different price points. $100, $200, sort of and change, $300 and $400, and we're going to have the GTX 650, 7770, GTX 660, 7870, GTX 660 Ti, which I've got in the wrong spot, 7970, and finally the GTX 670 versus the 7970. Methodology-wise we'll be doing our usual thing with a two-minute run through of actual gameplay. So if you guys are interested, Slick does videos actually showcasing exactly the run we do so you can follow along and benchmark your own system with Bioshock Infinite and find out how it stacks up against the stuff that we're running here. Now I just wanted to remind you guys that all of our video cards are overclocked and the reason we do this is that overclocking is easy and free and there's pretty much no reason you could do it. Yes, technically some manufacturers void the warranty. Little inside trick, they have absolutely no way of knowing if you overclocked your card, so... $100 price point, 7770 versus GTX 650. This was a bit of a trouncing, the 7770 outperformed the GTX 650 by about 30%, which is definitely tangible and definitely something that you can feel when you're actually playing the game. Now our $200 price point has gotten a little bit murkier. Is it $200? Is it $250? Not quite sure. The 7870 is around $229 and the GTX 660 is around $239. What we do know is that these cards are priced quite similarly, so they should be pretty comparable and what we experience is that they are. The 7870 outperforms the 660 by about 5%, which for all intents and purposes is just outside the margin of error that we have for these runs because we are doing real world benchmarks as opposed to just running a canned, pre-done thing. So it's just... it's the nature of the beast. You can't do it perfectly exactly the same every single time. At our next price point, we have the 7950 and the GTX 660 Ti and this one was a pretty significant performance difference. We're looking at about 15% better performance with the 7950. Again, bearing in mind both cards are overclocked and the 7950 does tend to overclock like a bit of a beast. It represents a very good value and has actually done pretty well consistently in all of these game showdowns that we've done. And our last price point, so we've done $100, $200, $300 so far, is around $400. So our 670 versus the 7970 was about a 10% difference in favor of the 7970. So you can see that's the one left on the bench here. It was the king of Bioshock Infinite for our testing. Bear in mind when I say king, I mean that sort of king. I mean GTX Titan would obviously perform better, but it didn't fall into any of the price points that we benchmarked that we find our price points that real people would actually be purchasing graphics cards at. I mean there are people buying Titans, but there's not like a ton of them out there. Thank you for checking out this benchmarking video. Well, not benchmarking video. You can check out the benchmarking video separately. Slick made that. But thank you for checking out our performance showdown with this new exciting installment of Bioshock. Apparently a lot better than the second one, so that's a good thing. And don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.