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Latest single GPU just dont cut it (will they ever)

zuludawn said:
With all the bull that's going on about who makes the fastest GPU , I thought some ingame Benchmarks with Fraps at 2560x1440 were needed here is ATI's offering

The results are at everything maxed no in game mods

i7 920 at 4 gig
12 gig ddr3 mem at 1600 mhz
XFX 7970 Black Edition 3072MB gpu 1125 mem 1575 no voltage mod.

All average results

Crysis 45 fps
BF3 muti 64 player 43 fps
Skyrim 44 fps
Shift 2 Unleashed 25 fps
Napoleon: Total War 30 fps

Will a single card ever be powerful enough to run Crysis at max settings a 5 years old game.
Drop off AA a little then steady 60fps, modern games will be future proof for a long time.
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When Crysis was released 5 years ago most people were running 1024x768 resolution. 1280x1024 was a luxury and widescreens still hadn't become the standard. Try Crysis at 1024x768 or 1280x1024 and it will fly on most modern enthusiast level GPUs. As for all the other games, you need to accept that 2560x1440 is an extreme resolution and that you won't be able to get a solid 60 FPS on any modern game with modern graphics.

To put it into perspective, 1920x1080 is the standard resolution now, this is 2073600 pixels. 2560x1440 is 3686400 or 1612800 more pixels to push around. Almost 80% more pixels to push around is a lot.
 
ICDP said:
When Crysis was released 5 years ago most people were running 1024x768 resolution. 1280x1024 was a luxury and widescreens still hadn't become the standard.
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Most people running 1024x768 5 years ago, really :confused:

I seem to remember I was running a 22" ASUS widescreen monitor with a 1680x1050 resolution, and before that I had a 19" widescreen 1440x900 monitor.

Now perhaps if Crysis had come out 10 years ago your resolution ideas might be a tad more believable :p

BTW Crysis was released in November 2007, so it's barely 4 years old ;)
 
dave_beast said:
Crossfire 7970's will make 60fps easy in those games at that res, or wait, sell 7970 and get 7990.
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I very much doubt that two 7970 would be slower than a 7990, Ati has to underclock these card because of the heat. My 5970 would never overclock to the speeds of a single 5870 in trifire, am in the process of getting another 7970 very soon.
 
its simple, 1080p single gpu is fine, going to 1440p or 160p or eyefinity or surround etc is a niche market at the highest end of monitor res, which in turn means enthusiast, which means you need enthusiast grade graphics which = multi gpu.
£200 monitor (1080p) rewuires a £400 card to run it nicely
£450-£900 moniotr requires 2 £400 pound cards to run, as its ~3 times the pixel count.

Nothing unexpected or new.
 
coupe69 said:
Most people running 1024x768 5 years ago, really :confused:

I seem to remember I was running a 22" ASUS widescreen monitor with a 1680x1050 resolution, and before that I had a 19" widescreen 1440x900 monitor.

Now perhaps if Crysis had come out 10 years ago your resolution ideas might be a tad more believable :p

BTW Crysis was released in November 2007, so it's barely 4 years old ;)
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I said most, not all. Even now 1280x1024 is more popular than 1080p let alone 1440p. Most people just use the monitor their PC came with for gaming. Before Crysis was released I bought a 1440x900 monitor and my mates thought I was crazy investing in a, "widescreen" monitor as no games supported them. They all had 1024x768 or 1280x1024 for their "gaming" rigs. As Ch3m1c4L states 1440p is very niche right now, I would add that in 2007 1920x1080 was also niche. A mainstream gaming rig running 1024x768 with a 9800GT was lucky getting mid 20s FPS in Crysis at medium settings when it was released. A HD 6950 or GTX 560ti would murder Crysis on high at that resolution, easily reaching 60 FPS.

It will be a few years before we get to the stage where top end GPUs run all games at 60 FPS with ultra high graphics settings at 1440p.
 
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ICDP said:
Even now 1280x1024 is more popular than 1080p
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Steam would suggest otherwise ;)

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BaDBoY_uK said:
When will these bloody threads end????

If you bought a 7970 and don't like it's performance, then poor you for not reading reviews. Drivers will mature and performance will get better but stop using crappy coded games.
If you haven't bought a 7970 and stand there wagging you finger, grow up. You are entitled to your opinion but it is not as credible as someone who owns one

Rant, sorry
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Totally out of context im very happy with my 7970 play all at 1440 at 60fps on all games with reduced AA. It blows my 5979-5870 trifire away. As for crappy coded games its all my game collection, if you tick all those boxes in Video options.

The thread was just about the gap between maxed out 1440 and the lastest GPU. As stated will a single Gpu ever play maxed out 1440.

I read every post on here before buying one, even left it 2 weeks after release date. Was worth it because most posts were more helpful than rants.
 
Orcvader said:
Well considering 2560x1440 has ~75% more pixels than 1920x1080, the card has more pixels to deal with... add AA to that and that's a lot of power that only crossfire/SLi can reach.
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This is the correct answer some people forget each & every pixel needs to be rendered/manipulated etc etc

Anything above 1920x1200 is SLI/Xfire only for decent FPS without losing too much detail on recent games.

The only thing recent GPU's cannot do is educate the ignorant ;)
 
zuludawn said:
Totally out of context im very happy with my 7970 play all at 1440 at 60fps on all games with reduced AA. It blows my 5979-5870 trifire away. As for crappy coded games its all my game collection, if you tick all those boxes in Video options.

The thread was just about the gap between maxed out 1440 and the lastest GPU. As stated will a single Gpu ever play maxed out 1440.

I read every post on here before buying one, even left it 2 weeks after release date. Was worth it because most posts were more helpful than rants.
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Then you Sir are not in my list of 1. People who bought and are unhappy and 2. People who didn't buy :)

I admit that was a rant but it was in relation to the number of slanging matches going on here. I suppose it's a forum and that is what it is all about but my God, don't some people throw down (ALXAndy, I am looking at you :))
 
danceMB said:
so many people have problems/issues a lot of the time, when most want to slot the card in, download the drivers and start playing games, without thinking "is the profile available for X game yet"
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not had a single problem with SLI... I think profiles is a crossfire thing, no?

*snigger*

and why is it all of a sudden that all games are "poorly coded" if a particular favourite graphics card can't run it (or you can't afford one that can)
 
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