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AMD to Nvidia Upgrade time.

One thing nvidia cards don't do is spike fps.

Nvidia will happy sit in the middle say 50 fps while the amd will go 30-60 spikes. So it moves all over really fast while Nvidia will stay at a steady frame rate.

I've went amd this time i just hope the spiking isn't as bad and its more smooth.
 
weehamish said:
One thing nvidia cards don't do is spike fps.

Nvidia will happy sit in the middle say 50 fps while the amd will go 30-60 spikes. So it moves all over really fast while Nvidia will stay at a steady frame rate.

I've went amd this time i just hope the spiking isn't as bad and its more smooth.
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This isn't really true. That sort of fps spike is down to cpu bottle necking which can hinder performance on any card.
 
weehamish said:
One thing nvidia cards don't do is spike fps.

Nvidia will happy sit in the middle say 50 fps while the amd will go 30-60 spikes. So it moves all over really fast while Nvidia will stay at a steady frame rate.

I've went amd this time i just hope the spiking isn't as bad and its more smooth.
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Do you have anything to back this claim up?

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/11/12/fall_2012_gpu_driver_comparison_roundup/1

This review has frame time graphs and on the whole things look pretty similar.
 
TheRealDeal said:
They used high setting and not max where it seems from there results and gregs results in the benchmark thread things even up.
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They used lower settings on the 7970 for some reason though.

They turned the compute based AA off for the 7970. Seems odd considering the 680 can run fine with compute on but the 7970 can't.

Having played sleeping dogs at 1440p with those same settings, the fps rarely drops below 60 and it is super smooth.

"The GTX 680 was able to perform at 2560x1600 using the High Anti-Aliasing setting. While the HD 7970 appears to have the headroom in the frame rate to support that setting, the game play experience was not as fluid as we expected it to be."

I'm only speaking for the 7970 results, but that is bull. I'm not questioning the Nvidia results.
 
Either way, it doesn't look like the 7970 is struggling at all. Quite the opposite.

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[H]'s result is rubbish for a 7970!:p

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Mines is probably 'just' average too.

Not that SkodaMart would overclock a gpu and get that kind of performance though.:D
 
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I just don't buy it that the 7970 cannot provide smooth performance with compute AA enabled but a 680 without any compute units can. I understand the 7970 figures are clearly much higher but thats with SA AA off.

Anyway just my two cents. :)
 
LtMatt said:
They used lower settings on the 7970 for some reason though.

They turned the compute based AA off for the 7970. Seems odd considering the 680 can run fine with compute on but the 7970 can't.

Having played sleeping dogs at 1440p with those same settings, the fps rarely drops below 60 and it is super smooth.

"The GTX 680 was able to perform at 2560x1600 using the High Anti-Aliasing setting. While the HD 7970 appears to have the headroom in the frame rate to support that setting, the game play experience was not as fluid as we expected it to be."

I'm only speaking for the 7970 results, but that is bull. I'm not questioning the Nvidia results.
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I did find it odd that they could only use the normal aa setting with the 7970 as from your max iq run the fps looked more than playable. Whatever the case benchmarks done on this forum don't add up to there results. They do state they use a part in the game that stresses the gpu the most and not the in game benchmark. Maybe the nvidia gpu does good at this point.

@LtMatt i was under the impression that only max aa is compute based so the high setting aa is not compute based. It still looks suspect that the 7970 can only generate enough fps on normal aa mode but as i said above it could just be the part of the game they are using thats weak on amd.
 
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TheRealDeal said:
I did find it odd that they could only use the normal aa setting with the 7970 as from your max iq run the fps looked more than playable. Whatever the case benchmarks done on this forum don't add up to there results. They do state they use a part in the game that stresses the gpu the most and not the in game benchmark. Maybe the nvidia gpu does good at this point.

@Ltmatt i was under the impression that only max aa is compute based so the high setting aa is not compute based. It still looks suspect that the 7970 can only generate enough fps on normal aa mode but as i said above it could just be the part of the game they are using thats weak on amd.
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I get lower fps running the benchmark than the part they talk about. Why they wouldn't use the benchmark when it is consistent and covers many of the levels in the game is beyond me.

Fair enough, that could be the case regarding compute aa. I still don't buy their results though.
 
LtMatt said:
I get lower fps running the benchmark than the part they talk about. Why they wouldn't use the benchmark when it is consistent and covers many of the levels in the game is beyond me.
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I agree but they differ from other sites and don't use canned benchmarks which i like because of this reason as to me it gives another perspective. Your own experience is different to there's and seeing it with your own eyes gives you 100% reason to discount there results. Straight away i thought the same.
 
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