Thank you mr moderator, sir.
Now the reason I requested the re-opening of the thread, is that I revisited the performance tests I had done before. Quoting myself..
Now the other day I did some new tests on version 6.0 of the game.
I was glad to find that all systems received a hefty performance boost and that is the reason I requested the re-opening of this thread to update the performance info and get some insight of what's going on.
This is how the performance looks like, right now (spicy wallpaper alert if you decide to watch the vids )
You will notice that I named the previous settings as maxed smaa and the new ones as ultra smaa, but they have the same exact settings. I just decided that maxed smaa was not a correct term. Still there is one new vid with truly maxed settings on the 970 below.
Project Cars 6.0 1920x1080 Ultra (SMAA) GTX 970 @1.5Ghz Core i5 2500k @4.8GHz -
98fps
Project Cars 6.0 1920x1080 Ultra (SMAA) 7950 @1.1Ghz CORE i7-860 @4GHz -
52fps
Project Cars 6.0 1920x1080 Ultra (SMAA) 7950 @1.1Ghz Q9550 @4GHz -
43fps
Project Cars 6.0 1920x1080 High (SMAA) 7950 @1.1Ghz CORE i7-860 @4GHz -
57fps
Project Cars 6.0 1920x1080 Maxed GTX 970 @1.5Ghz Core i5 2500k @4.8GHz -
37fps
Project Cars 6.0 1920X1080 High (SMAA) 5850 @950Mhz Core i7-860 @4GHz -
33fps
Now if you do a direct comparison, you will see that the 970+2500k was scoring 62fps before and now it scores 98fps! The 970's benchmarks of my previous post, where done with the beta 0.831 however. Still, that's a 58% increase in performance. Also what is crazy here is that the gpu usage in 0.831 was at 100% while it is hitting cpu limits in 6.0, so the result would be even higher. To top that off, the 6.0 has increased track quality setting to ultra, which I used.
As for the 7950, which I had indeed tested with the 1.2 version, as you can see, it is also now much faster. Actually it went from 29fps to 52fps, giving a
huge boost of 79%! Actually the performance gain of the 7950 is much more important, because it took a performance of 30fps and shot it to above 50fps. The 970 going from 60 to 100 will have little importance for most users.
It is also note worthy, that the 7950 going from ultra to high settings, did not gain much performance. This was the case before too, but with much worse performance of course.
Last but not least, the old 5850 is now able to run the game even at high settings at 33fps, while it was unthinkable before. Basically it was a slideshow.
Of course the reason I am posting all this, is because I don't understand what is going on here and I thought you guys may have some input. Sure we are probably looking at some straight engine optimizations that gave this huge performance boost. I can't help wondering, if the settings have been tinkered however. I mean it could be a placebo, but the 1.2 seems better to me, judging by my captured videos.
I would dare say, that all in all the game still seems to favor Nvidia, but it doesn't matter because the radeons also work fine.
Also if a new discussion will follow, let's please not fight this time.