Caporegime
Is that all it is? How much does the socket cost?
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Far Cry 6 GPU performance not bad at all but is severely bottlenecked by CPU
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Is that all it is? How much does the socket cost?
I buy wathever is better/cheaper at the time, intel for the last years have been behind specially when it comes to low/mid budget CPUS, even CPUS like the 9600k aged badly compared to their AMD counter part, the 3600, AMD ryzen 2600 aged fairly decently as well and it could already be found for under 100 quid years ago, 2 years ago you needed to spend over almost 400 quid on the intel side justfor the "priviledge" of having a CPU with hyperthreading, meanwhile you could get that on a 80 quid AMD CPU.
The 10400F/11400F have been very solid budget options over the past couple of years.
Always been an AMD gpu person but the last amd gpus which were any good/competitive were the vegas imo, vega 56 was solid when UV + OC and still a great card today. Rdna 2 is very good too and if the stock and pricing situation had been better, I probably would have picked one up at the time but alas it wasn't so a £650 3080 was too good to refuse, that and ray tracing + dlss has come a long way since then so no regrets with the green side for now. Next gpu purchase will be based on price to perf. as per usual followed by ray tracing perf. and features such as DLSS/FSR/intels one. Unless RDNA 3/40xx is substantially better and ray tracing is pushed further in games, I'll probably be giving them a miss, will also depend largely on how much I could sell the 3080 on for.
CPU wise, amd had me since the ryzen 2600 launched and can't see myself going back to intel any time soon.
Caporegime
What I have been finding is it is better to just sell and get latest stuff on release. People happy to pay near full price for old GPU’s (even before the shortage) so I say might as well sell, add a hundred or so on top and get latest gear. It is always fun having and testing shiny new GPU, so the joy from that alone is worth the cost I find. That’s my plan anyway. More than likely I will end up getting a 4070 or 4080 FE unless AMD get their **** together and offer me an option to buy at MSRP.
Something is definitely wrong with the VRAM allocation in this game. In the below video running a 3090, right off the bat the game is using 10GB and it never goes below this throughout the entirety of his run and peaks at 11GB several times. It didn’t cross 12GB at all.
On my 3080 Ti, despite having 12GB of VRAM, the game refuses to use over 9.5GB with FSR UQ and there is constant stuttering. It’s like the headroom which is set for the vram is set too aggressively. I think a proper solution would be for a modder to find out a way to trick the game into thinking the user has more VRAM, so it can use the entirety of the GPU VRAM instead of streaming from disk almost 3GB before it runs out.
On my 3080 Ti, despite having 12GB of VRAM, the game refuses to use over 9.5GB with FSR UQ and there is constant stuttering. It’s like the headroom which is set for the vram is set too aggressively. I think a proper solution would be for a modder to find out a way to trick the game into thinking the user has more VRAM, so it can use the entirety of the GPU VRAM instead of streaming from disk almost 3GB before it runs out.
Caporegime
My observations:
1. He's not running maximum settings, motion blur is off.
2. He has FSR enabled which lowers power draw and video memory usage as has been shown here vs here.
3. He has a streaming PC, so this is best case scenario for FPS and lower video memory usage as recording is not done on the same PC.
4. I can put up a video (if required) at the same settings, record on the same PC and I will get higher video memory usage and higher FPS.
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It's been a long day but I'm not sure what relevance most, if any of those points have with regards to the point shaz is making.... They aren't going to hamper vram usage "that" much.... FSR does not make that much of a dent to vram usage either unless using the lowest setting.
1. He's not running maximum settings, motion blur is off.
Really................
Talk about clutching at straws now 
It's been a long day but I'm not sure what relevance most, if any of those points have with regards to the point shaz is making.... They aren't going to hamper vram usage "that" much.... FSR does not make that much of a dent to vram usage either unless using the lowest setting.
1. He's not running maximum settings, motion blur is off.
Really................
Talk about clutching at straws now I replicated the same settings. Turned motion blur off and turned on FSR Ultra Quality.
My observations:
1. He's not running maximum settings, motion blur is off.
2. He has FSR enabled which lowers power draw and video memory usage as has been shown here vs here.
3. He has a streaming PC, so this is best case scenario for FPS and lower video memory usage as recording is not done on the same PC.
4. I can put up a video (if required) at the same settings, record on the same PC and I will get higher video memory usage and higher FPS.
I am not disputing that he may be getting lower VRAM usage. What I am wondering is why my VRAM usage is much lower than his at the same settings. Why doesn’t the game use at least 10GB out of my VRAM? I played 2 hours with these same settings and the highest my VRAM usage got was 9.5GB.
What I actually want is for the game to use more of my VRAM.
Caporegime
From a quick skim of the video it seems like they did a really good job with the textures in certain areas. Overall it is a good looking game. The bump map on the water works really well. (I assume they are not using an actual displacement map to save on triangle count)
What about in game? Were you playing on the same part of the map? Did you have access to the same guns, equipment, clothing, vehicles etc..
I believe that models and effects for guns and equipment that a player has access to will be cached.
Edit: I once heard that modern GPUs could actually push crazy high triangle counts if the wanted to. Does anyone know if this is true?
Not the same area or the same equipment. But it doesn’t matter because vram usage is above 10GB in pretty much all scenarios for these 16GB cards.
The below video is the starting area of the game where usage is 11.6GB on the 3090. In the same spot with the same equipment with the same graphics settings with FSR disabled, I only get 9.8GB of usage.
Soldato
I noticed that. Does it say what they did or just some generic 'improvement' message?
link to this info?
Nothing official but some people said the FPS is up to 10% higher. If this is a sign for the future it means that it will take 2 years before the Farcry6 will run as well on Nvidia as it does on Radeon cards. But one day it will.
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/35165500
Soldato
I pop on for the daily missions for the opals. Wondered why my fps overlay was looking strong and thought it was just gradual improvement from patches. I did also update the chipset 'cos of the recent vulnerability warning but makes sense it was due to the nvidia driver. I updated it before playing FC6.