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The Witcher 3 Benchmarks

Ayahuasca said:
What do you mean Titan is only as fast as a 290p?

When the 290 cards came out everyone was raving how they were the same or faster than the original Titan for gaming and being a hell of a lot cheaper.

It's pure conspiracy that people think nVidia are purposefully gimping older cards.
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The 290p was never as fast as Titan on release.
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
Got a link to this for folks to try? I've never heard of SweetFX.
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Sure..

http://cl.ly/1b1i2E3R3F2c

Follow the readme file for the instructions. Its pretty easy.

Go into the SweetFX_settings file and change the Lumasharpen to 0 instead of 1.
Turn off the sharpening feature in the game too as this just adds false sharpening and makes it look awful.

Turn off Chromatic Abberation in the options menu too in game.
 
TheRealDeal said:
The 290p was never as fast as Titan on release.
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So then why was everyone raving about similar performance to the Titan for much less money when it launched?

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TheRealDeal said:
The evidence is out there showing that the gtx780 has fallen away performance wise. Titan is now only as fast as a 290p never mind a 290x which now rivals a gtx780ti. The gtx780 used to be much faster than it currently is. Check out how close a 7970ghz edition is getting to the gtx780.

I can't be bothered to post the same results from a year ago which shows a much different picture to what we see in this up to date review. I have already posted them several times so don't want to be like a broken record. These results speak for themselves.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_Titan_X/29.html
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Well this "evidence" must be shoddy at best, I have seen no real performance decrease on my 780s over the past year with any driver updates.

Seems to me like people trying to find incriminating evidence against Nvidia when there really is none (yet again).

And this is not me just zealously defending Nvidia for the record, if my 780s were not performing well then you can be sure that I would not be happy; but, of course, that is not the case as they are performing as great as ever as mentioned previously.
 
Matson said:
Sure..

http://cl.ly/1b1i2E3R3F2c

Follow the readme file for the instructions. Its pretty easy.

Go into the SweetFX_settings file and change the Lumasharpen to 0 instead of 1.
Turn off the sharpening feature in the game too as this just adds false sharpening and makes it look awful.

Turn off Chromatic Abberation in the options menu too in game.
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Thanks a bunch! Even currently on all Low it makes a massive difference!
 
PhysicsMan94 said:
Why do people without Kepler cards keep insisting that Kepler is performing badly and that us 700 series users should be outraged at Nvidia? :confused:

I am getting amazing performance out of my 780s still (after 2 years), they're running Witcher 3 at everything max except for HairWorks just on Geralt at 1440p and I'm getting 60+ fps. They can also run any other game out there at near max 1440p and 60 fps (including recent titles like GTA V).

So stop with the inane nonsense, there is no Nvidia conspiracy against 700 series cards. Just ridiculous some of the claims being thrown around here as of late.
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Yet it seems in Project Cars you would get better performance from a GTX 960

 
I haven't played pCars yet so couldn't comment on that one. But to be honest, I learnt long ago not to trust those damn benchmark graphs these sites publish - half of them can't even do axis scales properly, and most of them have some sort of agenda they want to push.
 
Here is a quick side by side comparison of that sweet fx I posted and the default game colours.

SweetFX left side. Default Colours right side.

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Silent_Scone said:
Care to explain your insight into the Madness engine as to why Maxwell architecture shouldn't perform better overall? Any reason would be great, thanks.
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The point is not Maxwell performance it's how Kepler performance is dropping away pretty fast even compared to the AMD cards that at one time they were faster then or at least on par. I expect Maxwell to be better as it's newer but what's going on with Kepler.
 
PhysicsMan94 said:
I haven't played pCars yet so couldn't comment on that one. But to be honest, I learnt long ago not to trust those damn benchmark graphs these sites publish - half of them can't even do axis scales properly, and most of them have some sort of agenda they want to push.
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What sort of agenda?
 
Ayahuasca said:
Noted but just as above the 290 is similar performance to the Titan...

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That's only a reference 290 as well.
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Battlefield 4 is known to perform good on AMD. The performance summary takes all the games reviewed into consideration. Has Kepler just got old or did AMD drivers make the difference? It looks like gimping but it's never going to be proven. Just looking at the evidence it looks pretty bad.
 
TheRealDeal said:
Battlefield 4 is known to perform good on AMD. The performance summary takes all the games reviewed into consideration. Has Kepler just got old or did AMD drivers make the difference? It looks like gimping but it's never going to be proven. Just looking at the evidence it looks pretty bad.
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The other games I linked show similar figures, similar performance as when the 290 reviews were done on release.

You're looking for something that isn't there unfortunately :(
 
humbug said:
What sort of agenda?
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Could be anything, anyone that writes one of these benchmark reviews interjects their opinion into it and every opinion has some sort of agenda behind it.

Also they're not writing these pieces for free, I'm sure that they are influenced by wherever their pay cheques are coming from.
 
Ayahuasca said:
The other games I linked show similar figures, similar performance as when the 290 reviews were done on release.

You're looking for something that isn't there unfortunately :(
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Not really. Check out the gtx780ti release review. The summary is what's important not individual games as that swings in round about's.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_780_Ti/27.html

Around 6 month's later and Kepler is still going strong.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/R9_295_X2/24.html

Gtx980 release and Kepler still doing not bad.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_980/26.html

Titan X review which is pretty much up to date and Kepler falling away. The results are clear but the cause is not.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_Titan_X/29.html
 
TheRealDeal said:
Not really. Check out the gtx780ti release review. The summary is what's important not individual games as that swings in round about's.
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No I think you'll find individual games is where it matters.

Your results don't show anything different to what I've already shown.

The 290's similar performance to original Titan.

It's no surprise that people are looking for a conspiracy though, must be a boring time as an AMD user.
 
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