4K performance for £300

[Insanties_birth]

I blame Nvidia with all their rubbish.

In a couple of years god know what anistropic tessellation PCSS crap their marketing team come with.

Or what they'll think the new price of a mid range card should be.

Either way, there's always AMD but that's a bit tough when the market share they have is limited and whatnot but hell, good price for performance is going to be hard to come by for 4k with Nvidia at the helm.

 

[Jamielicious]

I'd expect the die shrink will help but also AMD and Nvidia will design with 4k in mind so 2017 for a £300 card. 2019 for a £200 card which by 2020 will be had for under £150 just in time for the PS5.

 

[ALXAndy]

Depends on the game engine and game IMO.

GTA V with any amount of AA still has jaggies at 4K (156PPI 28inch 4K Asus Monitor). BF4,Crysis 3 and DL aren't as bad.

GTA V and DA:I are smooth even below 60 FPS. Also depends on the person some can, some can't feel the difference. Totally depends what you are use to in terms of AA and "smoothness" of FPS.

I've seen a good few screenshots of GTAV now and in some there are no jagglies. All apart from the guy running it on one 980 and using no AA at all.

Not sure why yours is like that though man that's odd.

 

[Strife212]

Yeah that's not happening for a long time, even Titan X SLI struggles at the moment depending on the title. 2-3 years I'd say.

 

[ALXAndy]

Yeah that's not happening for a long time, even Titan X SLI struggles at the moment depending on the title.

Then there's something seriously wrong with the SLI drivers for Titan X because I have two Titan Blacks and the experience so far has been amazing.

The 295x2 was reviewed quite a while back now but apparently the most demanding game at 4k is still Crysis 3 and the 295x2 came out perfectly well.

From what I have seen one Titan X pretty much competes with my Titan Blacks in SLI. In fact in benchmarks the X is faster even when I overclock. Now I know in gaming it's not quite that good but I would still say with SLI you should be flying along.

I know that one Titan X isn't quite enough for Crysis 3 with very high settings and my Blacks just about scrape through OK but anything else should run perfectly well even on something like the 295x2 or 290s in Crossfire.

Mind you having said all of that I've seen quite a few Titan X owners complaining about SLI and Greg was so put off by it he sold one of his.

 

[BS Dave]

2 x 2nd hand 290 less than £300

 

[arc@css]

I would have thought the best you can do is two second hand 8gb 290X cards.

 

[kaku]

I spent the first half of my life playing on consoles from the Atari to the SNES and they all ran at 30 FPS or less and I had tons of fun and played many amazing games, for example Super Mario World and enjoyed every last minute at 30 FPS.

Please. SNES games are locked at 60fps (USA/JP) or 50fps (UK/AUS).

 

[Boomstick777]

Max detail at 4K for £300.. Um good luck with that in 2 years lol.

Realistically about 3-5 years at that price point.. Look how long it took for us to get truly capable cards at 1080P.. Well 4K is a massive, massive, massive step up from 1080P..

 

[ALXAndy]

Please. SNES games are locked at 60fps (USA/JP) or 50fps (UK/AUS).

Just because a TV is 50hz does not mean the games run locked at 50 FPS.

http://www.retro-games.co.uk/nintendo/snes/snes.htm

Speed Check / PAL protection
Later SNES games contain a code to check for a 60Hz or 50Hz display. The NTSC TV system displays 30 frames of video per second (60Hz). The PAL system displays 25 (50Hz).

Max detail at 4K for £300.. Um good luck with that in 2 years lol.

Realistically about 3-5 years at that price point.. Look how long it took for us to get truly capable cards at 1080P.. Well 4K is a massive, massive, massive step up from 1080P..

Where did two years come from? I was talking about here and now.

 

[kaku]

Just because a TV is 50hz does not mean the games run locked at 50 FPS.

http://www.retro-games.co.uk/nintendo/snes/snes.htm

Speed Check / PAL protection
Later SNES games contain a code to check for a 60Hz or 50Hz display. The NTSC TV system displays 30 frames of video per second (60Hz). The PAL system displays 25 (50Hz).

Ok, I was incorrect. About 99.99999% of games are locked to 50/60fps depending on region.

Some games that have weird/advanced stuff going on (SuperFX chip and so on) run at a slower frame rate.

 

[jupiter_man]

There are not many single cards can max out new games at 1080p with MSAAx4 get solid 60fps, so dont even mention 4k...lol

 

[Boomstick777]

There are not many single cards can max out new games at 1080p with MSAAx4 get solid 60fps, so dont even mention 4k...lol

+111

Where did two years come from? I was talking about here and now.

A few of the guys posted 2 years for a £300 GPU to max out 4K. I'm saying no chance lol.

3-5 years at least imho. Look how long it took GPU's to be able to max 1080P, some people say even now that only cards like GTX 980 £450 and Titan X are enough to max 1080P and TX is £850..

So yeah we're a long way from a £300 GPU that can max 4K. I mean think about it, if that happened in 2 years, how would AMD / Nvidia sell anymore GPU's . It will take 3-5 years at least. Probably way more, about the same time as 8K gets touted as the next best thing, so they can keep selling GPU's lol.

 

[Ayahuasca]

It's doable now if you don't mind FPS dipping to console levels and you could argue gsync/freesync help but there's some games I still wouldn't want to be playing with minimums in the 20's or 30's.

 

[whyscotty]

Snip

Agreed