Those benchmarks look heavily GPU bound to me. Look how tight those scores are. Witcher 3 will be much more CPU oriented than any of those games, which are quite old at this point.
Most likely not. AC unity also has CPUs for breakfast, still it's so GPU heavy that it's GPU limited most of the time.
Recommended for what? running the game at max settings at 1080p/60fps? Or is it average settings or what? So, which settings / resolutions / fps ?
A game can be both CPU and GPU oriented. Open world games typically tend to be CPU heavy (the bigger and more expansive they are, the greater the reliance) because there is a lot of stuff the CPU has to do, and of course, the GPU has to render it all..
I don't think Witcher 3 wlll be as CPU intensive as AC Unity though. AC Unity has tons of A.I entities, plus the lighting data used the CPU for decompression. AC Unity is also an extraordinarily dense game that's seamless.
Witcher 3 will also be dense, but I don't think it will be on the same level as AC Unity in that regard. That's not to diminish the Witcher 3 of course. It's just that Paris in AC Unity was already a large city with around half a million inhabitants at that time. No city in the Witcher world is that large if I'm not mistaken.
Meaning that with my newly bought GTX 760 I'm gonna run it on the minimum? Oh boy! :rofl:
Exactly! With open world games having good graphics you're more likely to run in both CPU bounding situations as well as GPU bounding ones. This article proved that TW2 was demanding on both fronts.
http://www.techspot.com/review/405-the-witcher-2-performance/
For some reason I think TW3 will more likely to run in GPU bounding situations than CPU ones (specially if you're going for higher graphics) but I could be wrong.
I am a little confused what qualifies for Minimum, and Recommended requirements.
A major problem I have been having lately for upcoming games is that the "recommended", and "minimum" requirements don't seem to actually mean anything. For example going by the recent requirements for the new metal gear game I shouldn't even be able to play it, yet I can run it on high. So what does this mean for witcher 3? Is the "recommended" for medium settings, or is it for ultra upper sampling at 4k. Is the minimum for the base point for just running the game, or is it for high settings? Are both settings for assumed 4k resolution? What about a 900p, or a lower one?
A major problem I have been having lately for upcoming games is that the "recommended", and "minimum" requirements don't seem to actually mean anything. For example going by the recent requirements for the new metal gear game I shouldn't even be able to play it, yet I can run it on high. So what does this mean for witcher 3? Is the "recommended" for medium settings, or is it for ultra upper sampling at 4k. Is the minimum for the base point for just running the game, or is it for high settings? Are both settings for assumed 4k resolution? What about a 900p, or a lower one?
Well I was expecting to meet the requirements and I do by quite a bit so that's good. Now it will be interesting to see how much I can get from my PC considering those specs....
Damn it I can't wait to play this game it's going to be beautiful :')
Damn it I can't wait to play this game it's going to be beautiful :')
Quick question: the i7 3770 is the recommended CPU. Will my i5 4690k be okay despite lack of hyper threading? I know that it is said that hyper-threading is more of an issue for video editors, but the fact that a 6 core CPU is cited rather than a 4 core CPU for the Intel side just had me wondering.
So yeah, just wondering if my i5 4690k will be okay in place of an i7 3770. Lets stick with a base comparison if possible because my i5 isn't overclocked.
So yeah, just wondering if my i5 4690k will be okay in place of an i7 3770. Lets stick with a base comparison if possible because my i5 isn't overclocked.
Don't worry that site is BS.
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Oh no doubt the requirements are weird thats why I am asking for an actual definition for their two settings. Because I highly suspect running the game on medium is going to be quite a bit lower than their minimum requirements.
I have a FX 8320 @ 4Ghz CPU , 8GB of RAM but my GPU is an R9 270x. Do you think i can run the game atleast on medium ?
If I were you, I'd get an aftermarket cooler, OC that CPU and just focus on getting the best possible GPU. But even @ stock clocks it'll proly be more than okay for TW3.
Also, I'm pretty sure 3770 is a Quad Core CPU.
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I think witcher 3 is optimized for nvidia... Can you add a cheap 650ti with an AMD card as ur main? or else you need good cpus, if you have amd gpus. But its something we knew for more than 2 years now.
Even nvidia users can gain up to 10fps extra, if they use a cheap 650ti for physix only and their gpu 770-780-970 for the rest.... U gain up to 10fps. (not in SLI mode, u cannot do that, but what you can do, is to add both cards and from the control panel, you command the 650ti to run only physx, while the other card everything else.)
Even nvidia users can gain up to 10fps extra, if they use a cheap 650ti for physix only and their gpu 770-780-970 for the rest.... U gain up to 10fps. (not in SLI mode, u cannot do that, but what you can do, is to add both cards and from the control panel, you command the 650ti to run only physx, while the other card everything else.)
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https://www.dinopc.com/shop/pc/-b-NEW-b-Magma-Wrath-94p2196.htm
Looks like this 'll do the trick.
Unless PC speak is more difficult to comprehend than I thought.
Looks like this 'll do the trick.
Unless PC speak is more difficult to comprehend than I thought.
I would suggest you to wait 2 months, windows 10 comming out hopefully before witcher 3...
Thats really damn expensive for those components. Definitely not worth more than 700 dollars let alone 2 grand.
I have i5 4590 and GTX 970 i hope it won't bottleneck. My CPU seems a little behind of 3770 in benchmarks but i dunno. In AC Unity it is mostly at %80's and %100 sometimes on all four cores, but i suppose it is because that game is so badly optimized, because in other games it runs real fine.
I live in Britain so the price is £1100 for me, plus it comes with a monitor and 3 years warranty.
Can you suggest somewhere else I could buy for better?