Quadfire 5970 worked in BF3 on day one for me.
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660ti decent?
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Quadfire 5970 worked in BF3 on day one for me.
Is there anywhere I stated it didn't work? I said it's took them a year to get the drivers up to scratch to compete with nvidia cards in BF3.
BF3 does not run better on Nvidia cards.
+1 for the 7950, once you get it in your rig and clocked up properly it will blast the 7870 and the GTX 660ti into last week on BF3 and most other games.
It took from when the NV 6xx was released for AMD to get the 7xxxx drivers performance up to complete in BF3 and that is closer to 6 months.
The performance was top notch on my quad fire 5970 from day one, they had never worked so hard beforehand.
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I won't even bother arguing my point with you after that roflgraph you posted in the other thread. BF3 is optimized for nvidia whether you want to believe it or not.
This can easily be seen as the 7870 and 660ti are neck and neck in most benchmarks but in BF3 the 660ti has about 10fps lead which is a considerable amount.
Really good video here comparing 7850 and 660ti:
http://www.eurogamer.net/videos/battlefield-3-1080p-max-settings-gtx-660-ti-vs-radeon-7850-video
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No need to use that one, here is another one, 7950 vs GTX 660ti / GTX 670 overclocked http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/08/23/galaxy_gtx_660_ti_gc_oc_vs_670_hd_7950/3
Well that's another roflgraph considering skyrim is very well known to be nvidia optimized. Seriously do you just look for the bias reviews?
I'll start posting some then:
Oh right yes of-course, another review that does not show what you would like it to so it's bias....
Oh right yes of-course, another review that does not show what you would like it to so it's bias....
I've already stated I'm not pro nvidia in the slightest so it's got nothing to do with what I like.
No it's not, and it never has been either, a popular misconception as well.
Nvidia being able to get more performance out of BF3 than Amd could is a different thing altogether than being optimzed for Nvidia.
Nvidia and Amd both endorse BF3, it isn't a TWIMTBP/Gaming Evolved exclusive at all.
Well that's another roflgraph considering skyrim is very well known to be nvidia optimized. Seriously do you just look for the bias reviews?
I'll start posting some then:
Very old AMD drivers? i bet, post the link to that slide, not just the slide
So how come nvidia had it optimized right from the start and AMD didn't for all their cards?
Nvidia had better optimised BF3 drivers to start with, that's not true any more.
are you going to post the link to your slide there?
Very old AMD drivers? i bet, post the link to that slide, not just the slide
Nah 12.7s, it wouldn't make the slightest difference anyway as you always only post benchmarks showing AMD winning.
Found them anyway:
Video Drivers: NVIDIA ForceWare 304.79 Beta
NVIDIA ForceWare 305.37
AMD Catalyst 12.7 Beta
12.7s were just as good as any of the new drivers for skyrim. Infact many still use the 12.7 beta's.
Whole review here, with Battlefield 3 as well.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6159/the-geforce-gtx-660-ti-review
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12.8? if i look for where that slide came from it will be with 12.8 drivers will it?
That's right from the start:
I thought I would post a small video of Battlefield 3 multiplayer Caspian Border Gameplay performance of my unlocked 6950 shaders @ 6970 clocks in Crossfire.
Benchmarks are all over the place with many discrepancies imo.
There are a few posts saying that 6970 Crossfire is not enough @1080p with Ultra settings, well you can decide for yourselves now.
Specs are:
Battlefield 3 AMD Crossfire Performance
Full Caspian 64 Player Map
Ultra Settings
In game fps using console command:
'Render.DrawFps 1 Boolean'
Amd 6950>70 Crossfire @ 880MHz/1350Mhz
Catalyst 11.10 preview2 + Cap3 Win7
2500K@ 4.5GHz
MSI Z68A-GD55-G3
16GB Corsair Vengeance Red 1866 Mhz
128GB Crucial M4-Windows
120GB Corsair Force 3-BF3
Windows Pagefile is disabled(I don't know if this helps with the stuttering but I've never had any)
This may help if you are trying to decide whether 6950/70's Crossfire is for you or whether it's worth adding a second card.
Yes the videos not centred, that wasn't the point.
P.s I thought the missus was not bad for her first shot of the tank!
Crossfired 6970's are always going to max BF3 regardless of drivers...
'So how come nvidia had it optimized right from the start and AMD didn't for all their cards?'
'Crossfired 6970's are always going to max BF3 regardless of drivers...'
If they weren't optimized right from the start, performance would have been nothing short of garbage in BF3 for Amd, they were on the ball with BF3.
Where they have been anywhere near on the ball however is with GNC, but it is a totally new architecture however performance is now starting to show, and like yourself I have just made the move to the 7 series, so I bypassed the poor performance.
'Crossfired 6970's are always going to max BF3 regardless of drivers...'
If they weren't optimized right from the start, performance would have been nothing short of garbage in BF3 for Amd, they were on the ball with BF3.
Where they have been anywhere near on the ball however is with GNC, but it is a totally new architecture however performance is now starting to show, and like yourself I have just made the move to the 7 series, so I bypassed the poor performance.
Unoptimized drivers wouldn't stop 2 of the best cards from the last gen maxing a game. That was my point. Probably run even better now does it?