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6870 is here! for £170, WTF?? HELP!!

bhavv said:
91 max FPS on the Geforce GTX 460? Really?



Play the game yourself. Anands review is 100% spot on with the GTX 460 SLI results, because mine are identically the same to it.
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You tell me all the reviews that i have linked to show different results but they all show the 6870 to be much faster than a gtx460 in civ 5. I am producing the evidence that the anand tests seems to have something up with it.
 
I cant even get SLI working in Civ V, GPU2 isnt getting used in Afterburner in ether Recommended or AFR SLI mode :(

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-6870-radeon-hd-6850-barts,2776-15.html

It is definitely interesting to see the frame rates soar when the map is zoomed in. But when the map is zoomed out, performance drops between 54 and 73 FPS on these powerful cards. The GeForce cards are favored in this part of the game.
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I'm definitely not going anywhere over 45 FPS on the world view though, I've tried 3 different saved games so far.

According to toms, the ATI cards are faster in diplomatic view which is insignificant, but slower in the world map view.

Wait, I just remembered I havnt insalled the latest drivers I just downloaded lol. I'll try those.
 
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Have you downloaded the latest drivers as they have an sli performance boost. In the anand review sli does not appear to be working. No matter i seen it was you who posted about them.
 
TheRealDeal said:
Have you downloaded the latest drivers as they have an sli performance boost. In the anand review sli does not appear to be working. No matter i seen it was you who posted about them.
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Yea I'm installing them now. I were getting the same results as anand were doing, and my SLI actually wasnt working, the second GPU was barely being used and stayed at idle clocks.

OMG wow!!! SLI is working now, both GPUs are being used, and my FPS went up to 60 and is smooth as silk (I must have V Sync enabled somewhere):



Anand used broken drivers for their Civ V benchies =D

I prefer to play with V Sync on because it tends to make crossfire / SLI setups a lot smoother.

With V sync off Im only going up to 85 FPS though, and I get horizontal bars appearing while I move the screen around, thats why I have it switched on normally:

 
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@ bhavv
Nice that you got SLI running but how much of a difference does it make..?

I am running Civ V with 4GB of RAM a E8500 running at 4GHZ. My GPU is only a 512mb 4870 and yet I'm running on everything high @ 1920x1080 and I do not notice any "real" graphics issues that I have thought would be worthy of an upgrade. As the game progresses the turns take longer but that is not GPU related.
 
Vimes said:
@ bhavv
Nice that you got SLI running but how much of a difference does it make..?
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The FPS is the bottom bar in the Afterburner screen.

Before driver update - 43 FPS. After driver update - 85 FPS. It needs Vsync to remove some wierd frame glitching bug though that I'm getting in most games I play with SLI.
 
I'm proper confused when I looked on the forum, 6870 has less stream processors than a 5870 and this did not compute, infact, 6870 slower than a 5870 still does not compute!
 
Am I the only one here thinking that Civ5 needing SLI to run smoothly = epic failure?

It's a turn based strategy game :( TBS and SLI have no business being in the same sentence :p
 
FoxEye said:
Am I the only one here thinking that Civ5 needing SLI to run smoothly = epic failure?

It's a turn based strategy game :( TBS and SLI have no business being in the same sentence :p
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Not sure why you are thinking that.

See my post above and I run it on all high detail with my 4870 512mb @ 1920x1080.
The biggest slowdowns, for me, is much later in the game that seems to be more to do with the CPU then the GPU.
 
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