The EVGA GTX 770 SC 4GB Benchmarked

Performance summary charts & graphs

Here are the summary charts of 30 modern PC games and 4 synthetic benches. The highest settings are generally chosen and it is DX11 when there is a choice; DX10 is picked above DX9, and the settings are generally ultra or maxed unless specified on the chart. Specific settings are listed on the charts. The benches are run at 1920×1080 and 2560×1600.

First up we want to look at the GTX 770 reference version (1046MHz/7010MHz) compared with the EVGA GTX 770 SC (1111MHz/7010MHz) and with the SC overclocked (+65MHz/+300MHz) as far as it would go on stock voltage and automatic fan profile (highest Boost observed on the core was 1305MHz).  Of course, we want to also compare to the HD 7970 (925/1375MHz) and to the GHz Edition (1050/1500MHz).

*BattleForge was completely unplayable with HD 7970 complete with missing and flashing textures.

We can see the HD 7970 GHz Edition winning in approximately 8 of the games while the EVGA GTX 770 SC wins in about 20 others, and splits a couple.

Main Overall Summary chart

There are five games that were added or added to ABT’s benching suite that several of the comparison cards did not benchmark – Civilization V, DiRT: Showdown, the Secret World, Far Cry 3 and GRID 2.  The chart is simply left blank if the benches were not run.   Here we look at the same benches as above but now we expand it to include the GTX 760/GTX 670/GTX 680 and the GTX 780.The GTX 780 stands out from the other cards as the highest performing and highest-priced card in this comparison at $650.  For nearly $200 less, the user overclocked EVGA GTX 770 SC narrows the gap a bit and even edges out the more expensive card in a couple of instances.

Here is the master chart.  We call it “the big picture” and it uses the same family of drivers to compare more cards, from the GTX 560 Ti to the GTX Titan.

The EVGA GTX 770 SC when overclocked further performs much closer to its big brother the GTX 780 and beats the GHz Edition of the HD 7970 in the majority of the benches.  Let’s head for our conclusion.