Far Cry Primal performance review

Lokken86 · 1 Mar 2016 at 18:46

Some numbers for the new Far Cry benchies are in;

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/far_cry_primal_pc_graphics_performance_benchmark_review,7.html

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Performance_Analysis/Far_Cry_Primal/5.html

Davanius · 1 Mar 2016 at 20:03

Another bench.

http://www.computerbase.de/2016-02/...abschnitt_benchmarks_von_full_hd_bis_ultra_hd

Radox-0 · 1 Mar 2016 at 20:30

Pretty nice showing by the fury cards at higher res. Wonder how my nano will fair.

pmc25 · 1 Mar 2016 at 20:38

970 and 980 are going to need some price cuts soon. They're getting slaughtered at higher resolutions and falling some way behind to much cheaper AMD cards even at 1920x1080 in a lot of newer titles.

setter · 1 Mar 2016 at 20:43

pmc25 said:
970 and 980 are going to need some price cuts soon. They're getting slaughtered at higher resolutions and falling some way behind to much cheaper AMD cards even at 1920x1080 in a lot of newer titles.

Agreed, especially in the case of the 980. Many of which are still a bit over £400.00. The 390 is a steal by comparison.

Nexus18 · 1 Mar 2016 at 20:50

pmc25 said:
970 and 980 are going to need some price cuts soon. They're getting slaughtered at higher resolutions and falling some way behind to much cheaper AMD cards even at 1920x1080 in a lot of newer titles.

Yeah I am glad I went with the 290 over the 780 & 970 now

Still annoyed that I didn't wait a few weeks longer as I could have got the 290 for £230 instead of £310!!!!

Kaapstad · 1 Mar 2016 at 20:55

pmc25 said:
970 and 980 are going to need some price cuts soon. They're getting slaughtered at higher resolutions and falling some way behind to much cheaper AMD cards even at 1920x1080 in a lot of newer titles.

The 290X has always had the upper hand @2160p over the 980.

The 970 and 980 have never been good 4k cards.

NVidia cut a few corners with their 256bit bus and the cards pay for it @2160p.

Simon Belmont · 1 Mar 2016 at 20:57

pmc25 said:
970 and 980 are going to need some price cuts soon. They're getting slaughtered at higher resolutions and falling some way behind to much cheaper AMD cards even at 1920x1080 in a lot of newer titles.

That doesn't matter as much any more now that we have G-Sync and FreeSync. 970 and 980 doing just fine

stulid · 1 Mar 2016 at 21:02

Just need some new drivers, in Nvidia we trust.

Ayahuasca · 1 Mar 2016 at 21:05

The ones for Far Cry have been out a few hours, guru3d were using the new ones by the looks of things, as were techpowerup.

Lokken86 · 1 Mar 2016 at 21:07

Nexus18 said:
Yeah I am glad I went with the 290 over the 780 & 970 now

Still annoyed that I didn't wait a few weeks longer as I could have got the 290 for £230 instead of £310!!!!

Crazy when you consider the gtx780 used to be equal to the 290 on release, maybe even a bit faster.

Drollic · 1 Mar 2016 at 21:12

Never tried fc4, but really surprised how good this looks on the whole. I expected something half baked with minor stutter.

Nexus18 · 1 Mar 2016 at 21:15

Simon Belmont said:
That doesn't matter as much any more now that we have G-Sync and FreeSync. 970 and 980 doing just fine

There are many users who don't have g/free sync though.

Lokken86 said:
Crazy when you consider the gtx780 used to be equal to the 290 on release, maybe even a bit faster.

Yup the 780 had the lead by a bit "overall" back then and I was wanting it for a change + running cooler and quieter but the extra 1GB of VRAM + 4 games free with the 290 as well as being a bit cheaper was just too good.

TonyTurbo78 · 1 Mar 2016 at 21:20

Nexus18 said:
Yeah I am glad I went with the 290 over the 780 & 970 now

Still annoyed that I didn't wait a few weeks longer as I could have got the 290 for £230 instead of £310!!!!

coulda waited a little longer and had a 390 8GB RAM for £265

Great to see AMD just release a new driver with Crossfire support as well for FC Primal, this after last week as well when they released the 16.2 with The Division crossfire profile. Maybe things are looking up Nexie baby

Nexus18 · 1 Mar 2016 at 21:42

PFFFFFFT! My 7850 2GB couldn't cope any longer especially with 2560x1080 21.9!

Yup it certainly seems like it :cool:

Hopefully that is the end of this dark patch for crossfire users.

Simon Belmont · 1 Mar 2016 at 21:46

Nexus18 said:
There are many users who don't have g/free sync though.

They better soon or they'll be left behind.

TheF34RChannel · 1 Mar 2016 at 22:48

I've been playing this tonight and it does not like too high a GPU OC - whereas elsewhere it wasn't a problem - the game would freeze. With a milder OC it's no problem but this isn't the card to get for the 1440p resolution. FXAA, most things on high, some on very high and I get 45-55 FPS. No ideal. However it's a fun game imo and I'll certainly revisit it after a GPU upgrade; I want to see this maxed out.

peahead · 1 Mar 2016 at 22:52

stulid said:
Just need some new drivers, in Nvidia we trust.

New drivers are out now Stulid

pmc25 · 1 Mar 2016 at 22:57

Kaapstad said:
The 290X has always had the upper hand @2160p over the 980.

The 970 and 980 have never been good 4k cards.

NVidia cut a few corners with their 256bit bus and the cards pay for it @2160p.

The lead is almost as large at 2560x1440 as it is 4K in many titles.

Quite a lot of titles are going the way of cheaper AMD cards at 1920x1080 now too, and not by small margins.

It's no longer just restricted to 4K. It looks like it'll be across the board soon for most new titles. That was my point.

@others - all those tests were on the new NVIDIA drivers.

Ash0787 · 1 Mar 2016 at 23:07

so 390x is essentially the best graphics card at the moment,
kind of funny since people complained about it just being a 'rebrand' lineup,
I guess medium maxwell is not as superior as the sales figures would suggest