TahoeDust
Limp Gawd
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- Dec 3, 2011
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The FTW3 is a beast physically! Bigger in every dimension except thickness and is markedly heavier. The SC is a very high quality feeling card, and the FTW feels even better. Performance wise in stock form the FTW3 boosts higher, clocks higher, runs cooler, and is quieter. Overclocking with the two is interesting. In memory they both overclock about the same. I can get the SC core to run a higher clock than the FTW3 by a bin or two The SC would bench stable at 2025MHz, the FTW3 only managed 2000MHz with flash to 2012MHz. The interesting thing is that even at a little slower clock the FTW3 out performed the SC by 2%-3% in the graphics test on Firestrike.
Here are some pics:
Firestrike results and comparison:
Run with my 2700k @ 5.1GHz on a Asus P8Z68 Deluxe and 16gb DDR3 1866MHz
FTW3:
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/12706164
SC Black:
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/12606417
Comparison:
http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/12706164/fs/12606417
Here are some pics:
Firestrike results and comparison:
Run with my 2700k @ 5.1GHz on a Asus P8Z68 Deluxe and 16gb DDR3 1866MHz
FTW3:
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/12706164
SC Black:
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/12606417
Comparison:
http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/12706164/fs/12606417
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