NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 Reviewed in 2-Way SLI and NVIDIA Surround

Test System

Before we look at the numbers, let’s take a brief look at the test system that was used. All testing was done using a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and benchmarks were completed on the desktop with no other software programs running.

Video Cards & Drivers used for testing:

• NVIDIA GeForce 320.18
• AMD Catalyst 13.6 Beta

Intel X79/LGA2011 Platform

The Intel X79 platform that we used to test the all of the video cards was running the ASUS P9X79 Deluxe motherboard with BIOS 0305 that came out on 12/25/2012. The Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1866MHz quad channel memory kit was set to 1866MHz with 1.5v and 9-10-9-27 1T memory timings. The OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD was run with firmware version 2.25.

The Intel X79 Test Platform
Component	Brand/Model	Live Pricing
Processor	Intel Core i7-3960X	Click Here
Motherboard	ASUS P9X79 Deluxe	Click Here
Memory	16GB Corsair 1866MHz	Click Here
Video Card	Various	Click Here
Solid-State Drive	OCZ Vertex 3 240GB	Click Here
Cooling	Intel RTS2011LC	Click Here
Power Supply	Corsair AX1200	Click Here
Operating System	Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit	Click Here

MSI GeForce GTX 770 SLI GPU-Z Information:

We ran the cards with the stock clock speeds of 1059MHz (base), 1111MHz (boost) and 1753MHz (7012MHz effective) on the GDDR5 memory. When run in SLI the cards would hit 80C, which is the default temperature setting on NVIDIA Boost 2.0.