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Concerned by Nvidia's current state of DX12 and Vulkan performance

TheRealDeal said:
Yep. For people like yourself that switch cards most gens Nvidia are fine but for people like me that keep cards around 2-3 years AMD make a lot more sense due to there forward looking architecture and the added bonus of more Vram v Nvidia's offerings. Add to that they are usually cheaper it's a no brainer for me.
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Yup agreed, this is where AMD win :)

I'm not saying Pascal will be totally useless for DX12, guess we'll have to wait and see!! ;)
 
DarrenM343 said:
Not a bad plan but 2-3 years is a long time to keep a mid-range card.
I wouldn't be surprised if Volta actually blows away AMD in DX12, but to that we'll have to wait, similar to DX11 if I remember correctly although that time AMD were first out with DX11 cards but when it mattered, when DX11 was being more utilised, Nvidia came along and did it properly. I do think we'll see Volta in 2017 when more games are built from the ground up for DX12 but also when devs and hardware co's have learned how best it's utilised. 2018 is too far away even if Pascal has the grunt to make up for it's lack of other things :)
Even when games are built from scratch for DX12, DX12 games will still get better over time as developers get more experienced with it. GPU's will likely get better too at running DX12 games, with both AMD and Nvidia optimising their hardware for it and how the developers are using it.
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At the time the 290 was more of a high end card and got it at a nice cheap price. My main game will probably be Bf1 for the next year or so and this 290 ran it on the ultra preset at around 70-80 fps average at 1200p. I have had it 2 years now and it's still holding it's own in the majority of new titles at decent settings.
 
TheRealDeal said:
At the time the 290 was more of a high end card and got it at a nice cheap price. My main game will probably be Bf1 for the next year or so and this 290 ran it on the ultra preset at around 70-80 fps average at 1200p. I have had it 2 years now and it's still holding it's own in the majority of new titles at decent settings.
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Think 1200p is a good resolution to game at - better than 1080 :) but not requiring quite the grunt of 1440p+ or if you have it, the card will last a decent while longer before needing an upgrade.
 
DarrenM343 said:
Think 1200p is a good resolution to game at - better than 1080 :) but not requiring quite the grunt of 1440p+ or if you have it, the card will last a decent while longer before needing an upgrade.
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I am hoping to upgrade my whole setup at some point next year and will probably be going 1440p Freesync along with Vega. With my daughter and best friend getting married next year it might not be possible though. I hate weddings especially when i am Father of the bride and best man :D:D:D. To top it off one of the stag nights is abroad.
 
TheRealDeal said:
I am hoping to upgrade my whole setup at some point next year and will probably be going 1440p Freesync along with Vega. With my daughter and best friend getting married next year it might not be possible though. I hate weddings especially when i am Father of the bride and best man :D:D:D. To top it off one of the stag nights is abroad.
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I have the Free-Sync screen ready, i'm just waiting for something thats faster than my 970, something worth the outlay, the RX 480 isn't that.
 
his got a FREESYNC screen.

I have the Free-Sync screen ready, i'm just waiting for something thats faster than my 970, something worth the outlay, the RX 480 isn't that.
 
Gregster said:
What a reallllllly bizarre thing to say. How on earth does the bottlenecking of multi GPUs not apply to single GPUs? They will bottleneck like a single GPU will if the CPU isn't up to the job.
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A CPU can be up to the job on a single GPU, if you had 2 GPUs that were half the performance each of the single you can end up with lower fps purely because the CPU is driving 2 GPUs and then you add multi GPU scaling into the mix and its a completely different ball game.

You take a single GPU that has the same amount of theoretical performance as 4 GPUs, the single GPU will require far less CPU for the same FPS.
So it's not as simple as you like to put it.

No different than you saying Tea is Tea, they are all the same.
Or why bother talking about miles per gallon between Cars as they both use petrol and they both stop working when the petrol runs out, everything is just basic black and white to you and on the ignore list you go.
 
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