Will an OC'ed GTX670 play BF3 on Ultra with a constant 60FPS at 1920x1080?

Gregster · 27 Mar 2013 at 18:01

^^ Fair play and I made my edit before you posted that

Davanius · 27 Mar 2013 at 18:02

Kaiju said:
If anyone with a GTX670 could test this in multiplayer and let me know.

Also, could it even stretch to 4xMSAA?

Thanks!

Specs below but looking to upgrade as GTX560 isn't cutting it.

[email protected]
8GB RAM
Win7 64-bit

Standing on the hill top on Caspian looking across the map in all directions reads approx 76 fps with 4aa and ultra settings. Same fps on the ground around checkpoint in the heat of battle.

Same cpu and overclock with an overclock on the 670 @ 1241 core.

One 670 is enough to play at 60 fps on ultra on a 64 player server but other maps like the karkland ones do dip into the upper 40's. I believe that the game is cpu hungry in multiplayer.

Kaiju · 27 Mar 2013 at 18:07

Cheers fellas, given the GTX670 is pretty darn close to the 680 and imginy showing us the GTX670 can hit around 60 min FPS with the latest drivers, I'll get one.

Granted HardOCP are using a [email protected], but I shouldn't be too far off.

I wonder if EA partnering up with AMD will ruin the party a bit with BF4's release. -.-

Thanks everyone, really appreciate the contributions.

setter · 27 Mar 2013 at 19:24

Running the settings below at 1920x1200.

60+ fps, but the odd dip into the high 50's on b2k maps or in vehicles. Motion blur turned off as it makes my eyes hurt a bit. Helps that my card is running a pretty hefty overclock, (+120 core, +770 memory). Cpu is an i5 3570k @4.5ghz, the fps drops on the b2k maps werent as bad though when i had my old i7 920 @4.2ghz, (same 670 gpu). Hyperthreading on that cpu helped with this game.

Kaiju · 27 Mar 2013 at 19:28

Perfect, thank you setter.

Looking forward to my GTX670 as I just bought BF3 Premium.

Kaiju · 27 Mar 2013 at 20:02

Hmmm, I'm now thinking of a GTX650Ti Boost in SLI.

Pros: Cheaper, More performance
Cons: Heat, Noise, Expandability, Microstutter

Suarez7 · 27 Mar 2013 at 20:04

imginy said:
Right to everyone calling me a liar read this then say sorry.

Here is a benchmark of a STOCK 670 BF3 multiplayer

62fps minimum on STOCK
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013...ver_performance_summary_review/5#.UVMvhVceE0w

62 minimum on stock

That's a 670 which is a fair amount better than a 660ti, also I don't believe the reviewers play for long enough or get into enough intense action to see these dips on 64 player multiplayer. You must have some super edition 660ti because my 680 even on the newest drivers dips below 60 at times with a [email protected].

Take in mind that's a 7970 running 1200/1700.

Absorbentsolid · 27 Mar 2013 at 20:04

Hi OP,I've had one GTX 670 FTW for a while and played a considerable amount of BF3.
I was getting around 60-80FPS at times,Didn't ever see a dip below 60 now in SLI 670 i see a consistent 100+FPS and don't really drop at all.
I have the Evga FTW edition i highly recommend that card

Hope this helped.
I should also note that my I7 8320 is Overclocked @4.4Ghz

Sin_Chase · 27 Mar 2013 at 20:06

imginy said:
62 minimum on stock

670, which is not a 660, is it?

Sin_Chase · 27 Mar 2013 at 20:09

imginy said:
If your seeing no cpu usage something must be wrong.

Even with my 3570k @ 4.8ghz it still uses 70% cpu.

Absolutely nothing wrong at all.

I run a HTed i7 and you run an i5. CPU is nowhere near bottlenecking anything BF3 has to offer.

Kaiju · 27 Mar 2013 at 20:09

Absorbentsolid said:
now in SLI 670 i see a consistent 100+FPS and don't really drop at all.

Do you think the GTX650Ti Boost in SLI would hit 60FPS+ minimum FPS in multiplayer maxed out?

murah · 27 Mar 2013 at 20:11

Kaiju said:
Thanks, it's just I saw a person with SLI'ed GTX660's and he was getting dips to as low as 28FPS in multiplayer.

The majority of the time it was at 60FPS, but not sure if that's microstutter as it did jerk for a second everytime it dipped. -.-

sounds more like the SLI microstutter issue rather than a problem with the card

Chrisoldinho · 27 Mar 2013 at 20:19

Completely off topic but with 2 7950's on an FX8350 @ 4.6 I run between 50-60 on Ultra at 6048x1080

Overclocked its pretty much fixed at 60 fps, I do only run 2x MSAA though, and I use SweetFX and SMAA injector through Radeon Pro which probably takes a couple of FPS but still a nice trade off compared with 4x MSAA.

Chris.

Kaiju · 27 Mar 2013 at 20:20

murah said:
sounds more like the SLI microstutter issue rather than a problem with the card

Here is the video of 2xGTX660's in SLI.

There is a stutter at 0:37 and more scattered throughout the gameplay.

Now the guy doesn't state his CPU, so could that be a CPU bottleneck or is that the infamous microstutter at work?

I have yet to determine what microstutter actually is at this point. XD

imginy · 27 Mar 2013 at 20:21

Suarez7 said:
That's a 670 which is a fair amount better than a 660ti, also I don't believe the reviewers play for long enough or get into enough intense action to see these dips on 64 player multiplayer. You must have some super edition 660ti because my 680 even on the newest drivers dips below 60 at times with a [email protected].

On modern games there really isn't a lot of difference between a 660ti and a 670.
Crysis 3 for example it's just 2 frames.

The 670 in that bench is only running at 980mhz core 6000mhz memory.
My 660TI on unlocked bios was running 1293mhz core 7100mhz memory.

Again I got no reason to lie about my 660ti never dropping below 60fps, I don't even own one any more I switched over to 7950.

If your 680 is dipping below 60fps it's probably your cpu/ram.

Suarez7 · 27 Mar 2013 at 20:25

imginy said:
On modern games there really isn't a lot of difference between a 660ti and a 670.
Crysis 3 for example it's just 2 frames.

The 670 in that bench is only running at 980mhz core 6000mhz memory.
My 660TI on unlocked bios was running 1293mhz core 7100mhz memory.

Again I got no reason to lie about my 660ti never dropping below 60fps, I don't even own one any more I switched over to 7950.

If your 680 is dipping below 60fps it's probably your cpu/ram.

Yeah buddy it's my parts, even though multiple people have told you their FPS drops below 60 on better hardware than yours. Lets all go out and buy 660ti's lads they're far superior obviously :rolleyes:

Sin_Chase · 27 Mar 2013 at 20:26

imginy said:
If your 680 is dipping below 60fps it's probably your cpu/ram.

Not at all.

I can get my 680 down into the 35-40s on a heavily populated wide open 64 player map.

Absolutely nothing to do with RAM or CPU.

Funny how '660ti' has now changed to 'heavily modified BIOS overclocked 660ti running 1293Mhz core and 7100Mhz memory'

Rusty0611 · 27 Mar 2013 at 20:27

Suarez7 said:
Yeah buddy it's my parts, even though multiple people have told you their FPS drops below 60 on better hardware than yours. Lets all go out and buy 660ti's lads they're far superior obviously

The only time I've never dropped under 60 FPS (EVER!) was when I had two massively overclocked 680s running at a measly 1920*1080 on the uber 304.97 drivers back in the day.

Would imagine my 7950s won't drop under either. An i7 does help in BF3 with minimums but I'm not convinced that 60 FPS can be held on a 660Ti.

Suarez7 · 27 Mar 2013 at 20:29

Sin_Chase said:
Funny how '660ti' has now changed to 'heavily modified BIOS overclocked 660ti running 1293Mhz core and 7100Mhz memory'

Even at those clocks I wouldn't be convinced, my 680 is at 1250/1750 so isn't exactly a slouch.

setter · 27 Mar 2013 at 20:35

imginy said:
The 670 in that bench is only running at 980mhz core 6000mhz memory.
My 660TI on unlocked bios was running 1293mhz core 7100mhz memory.

980mhz on the 670, wonder what model it was and if that was it's boost clock speed at stock. Stock core speeds for the 670's range from 915-1058mhz, this however doesnt include the boost clock. The gigabyte wf has a stock core of 980mhz, mine boosts out of the box to 1189mhz but ive oc'd on top of that. Memory wise, 2000mhz is about average for the range as again the speed go's up/down from that figure depending on vendor/model.