Here we see yet another closely contested battle between the new GeForce GTX 770 and the old Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. The overclocked Gainward GTX 770 Phantom averaged 42.8fps making it just 5% faster than the 7970 GHz Edition, but 14% faster than the GeForce GTX 680.
The Gainward GTX 770 Phantom’s lead over the GeForce GTX 680 and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition was reduced when measuring frame time performance, as it was now just 7% and 1% faster respectively.
Hitman Absolution doesn’t play nice with Nvidia hardware and as a result the Gainward GTX 770 Phantom was for the first time slower than the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, 11% slower in fact. The overclocked Gainward GTX 770 Phantom was also just 1% faster than the standard GTX 770 and just 7% faster than the GTX 680.
Despite taking a beating from the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition when measuring frames per second performance in Hitman at 2560x1600, the Gainward GTX 770 Phantom was worlds faster when measuring frame time performance. Here the Gainward GTX 770 Phantom was 52% faster than the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and just 9% faster than the GeForce GTX 680.
