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If a high end 880/880 ti launch before Witcher 3 I'll upgrade if only because my 290x has a ton of coil whine. If not i'm sure the 290x will run it fine.
http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/08/17/the-witcher-3s-ps4xbox-one-optimization-going-better-than-expected-differences-with-pc-explained/
Reading that I am less fearful of the need to upgrade to a crazy high end machine seeing the specs of the consoles.
Reading that I am less fearful of the need to upgrade to a crazy high end machine seeing the specs of the consoles.
Yup. But at least I want the fastest 28nm card on the market for the game. (excluding cards like GTX Titan)It will be still 28nm
Will sell it and upgrade to a 20nm card when they are eventually released.
I was under the impression the GTX 880 with the new maxwell tech would be on par, if not better than the 780ti. Am I wrong?
Well after building the latest computer back in April . I wanted to wait til later but the old one died so didn`t have a choice . Anyway I picked up 2 770`s for about $50 less than one 780 Ti so there`s always that to consider as well . Can`t say for witcher 3 yet but witcher 2 all maxed with Uber on and 60+ FPS is no problem at 1980 x 1020 .
About 14% on straight performance, if rumors are validated. Because the 880 will be lower powered, maybe 35% on performance per watt.
Integrator overclocking, coolers, or special deals may make the difference. All four cards are competitive.
Something to remember about nVidia is, they don't really much care what AMD is doing. AMD isn't a big player in nVidia's core market, which isn't gaming, it's commercial and professional virtual reality. Their high-end products go into appliances and render farms. Gamers get the sidestream from these products.
So after all went for a 1TB Samsung 840 Evo SSD since it was on sale. Should fit quite a few games there
Actually, if CDPR optimizes it properly, a 780 or 780Ti should still be good for a long ton of extra eye candy. Optimizing should not be understood as limiting what the game can do, but as allowing whatever hardware you can afford to throw at it to give you the best possible experience.
In the early days of Vista, a customer called in his field service rep and complained that Vista was using too much of his memory. The field service rep opened his computer, took out a stick of RAM, laid it on the desk and said, "There. Now that memory isn't being used."
The point being, optimization isn't about limiting resource usage or limiting performance to meet an artificial resource budget. It's about making the best use of all the resources available.
In the early days of Vista, a customer called in his field service rep and complained that Vista was using too much of his memory. The field service rep opened his computer, took out a stick of RAM, laid it on the desk and said, "There. Now that memory isn't being used."
The point being, optimization isn't about limiting resource usage or limiting performance to meet an artificial resource budget. It's about making the best use of all the resources available.
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I hope my AMD 7970 will be enough to play it on medium or high settings.
Surely it will be good enough for medium, perhaps even on high too but without some of the extras.
That's stronger than what the consoles that will supposedly run on high settings have. If not full on ultra you may get a mix of high and ultra hopefully.
Nvidia will release 8800 series soon, and I think it will be suitable for The Witcher 3, by the way, my old card 7950 with Vram 3G is good for now, that I can adjust options in game later, the most important is that my pc can run it by loading in game first.
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