That was because at the time WoW was limited by CPU more than anything else. That engine has been jerry rigged like a mother buzzer over the past decade and ever since Cata is more GPU limited.
Are AotS and Warhammer popular games? If yes, I'm not.
AotS from what I understand is a game primarily to show off technology. So it would fall into the second category, a game hopefully representative of future performance.
I remember when Anandtech benchmarked WoW because it was so popular. Basically every card was good in WoW. But that provided useful information to readers.
Sounds like it sure does satisfy any 1080p gamer who wants to run their games at highest settings.I have a 4gb 480 reference. I'll give some first impressions. Thing is dead silent at idle. At full gaming mode it's still very quiet. Not sure what the big deal is about as noise is definitely not an issue. To me anyways. Having said that temps are going in the high 80s. I've seen a little throttling but it's 1244 usually instead of 1266 or whatever full boost is. I will tell you though that my case situation is worst case scenario for cooling. I have a computer desk that fully encloses my case with little exhaust for the heat to get out. I have a stock voltage 2600k at 3.9ghz that runs into the 70s with a megahalems cooler in it. The 2600k should run at about 60c with any decent desk setup. The 480 is a beast of a card. I'm playing fallout 4 1080p ultra everything full max and it's beasting away into the 80 fps+ average range. I think this is a great card for someone that just likes to throw a card in their system and game away. Its a beast. It's not an enthusiast card though. There will be no overclocking. It might throttle a tiny bit if your case situation isn't ideal. I'm talking 30 or 40mhz and my case situation is the worst. And temps are going to run high. Most enthusiast gamers are going to watch this card like a hawk and it would probably bug them to death it's not running at full boost 100% of the time and it's runs hotter than 60c. If that's you stay away. If you want a $200 card to just plug in and play away without watching afterburner all the time then this is a great card for that guy.
Sounds like it sure does satisfy any 1080p gamer who wants to run their games at highest settings.
Would you say the 4gb model is enough ram? Reason I wonder is I'm going to get an AIB model and with the recent news I saw about the sapphire nitro being close to $300 for the 8gb, I am considering 4gb.
The nitro is 249 pounds which equals to $350 here in US but that also includes VAT so my guess is it would be around $300 maybe $279-89 here. If I have to spend more than $300 I'd rather go upwards toward the $399 1070.
But if the 4gb is enough I could catch a deal on a 4gb aib model.
Yup that is my plan for now. Assuming Vega is a big improvement I'll try and sell the 480 and upgrade then again to something I'd likely keep as long as I've had this 7970.I really haven't gamed in a couple of years so the only new game I have is fallout 4. I was watching gpu mem usage and it was using 1.5 to 1.7gb or gpu ram during gaming. I honestly wouldn't pay $300 for a 480. That is too close to the gtx 1070 for my tastes. I would think a nice aib 480 4gb around $220 would serve you well until Vega comes out. I think that's your plan if I remember correctly?
I guess vega will be faster than 1080. But at that time nv will have something faster yet. And vega will cost. Its 8gb hbm2. Lower yields to keep efficiency good on a far bigger die. That sounds like 500 usd plus to me. And a low margin product for amd btw.Yup that is my plan for now. Assuming Vega is a big improvement I'll try and sell the 480 and upgrade then again to something I'd likely keep as long as I've had this 7970.
I'm also assuming we will see 4gb aib models. Most of the leaks have been 8gb. Then with the 1060 also releasing pretty much the same time the aib will be out I may have a look at that if the price favors.
When I purchased the card I have now I paid $540 for it. Lasted me 4+ years and I've been happy with it. I have no problem spending that amount if I know it's their top end and I will be using it for a while.I guess vega will be faster than 1080. But at that time nv will have something faster yet. And vega will cost. Its 8gb hbm2. Lower yields to keep efficiency good on a far bigger die. That sounds like 500 usd plus to me. And a low margin product for amd btw.
In the current situation, there is no top end that I'm comfortable paying for to keep long term. Only thing I worry about with nvidia is their long term support. They are used to people that do frequent updates and I'm not one of them.
NVIDIA long term support is fine, IMO. AMD cards have historically gotten better with driver updates as AMD learned to wring more out of them and I wouldn't be surprised if the fact that the consoles basically have a ~7870 in them meant that some games wound up more optimized for GCN than Kepler.
Maxwell seems to be a good architecture and Pascal appears to build off of that architecture, so it'll be supported for quite a while.
I have a 4gb 480 reference. I'll give some first impressions. Thing is dead silent at idle. At full gaming mode it's still very quiet. Not sure what the big deal is about as noise is definitely not an issue. To me anyways. Having said that temps are going in the high 80s. I've seen a little throttling but it's 1244 usually instead of 1266 or whatever full boost is. I will tell you though that my case situation is worst case scenario for cooling. I have a computer desk that fully encloses my case with little exhaust for the heat to get out. To give some perspective I have a stock voltage 2600k at 3.9ghz that runs into the 70s with a megahalems cooler on it during prime. The 2600k should run at about 60c with the megahalems and any decent desk setup. The 480 is a beast of a card. I'm playing fallout 4 1080p ultra everything full max and it's beasting away into the 80 fps+ average range. I think this is a great card for someone that just likes to throw a card in their system and game away. Its a beast. It's not an enthusiast card though. There will be no overclocking. It might throttle a tiny bit if your case situation isn't ideal. I'm talking 30 or 40mhz and my case situation is the worst. And temps are going to run high. Most enthusiast gamers are going to watch this card like a hawk and it would probably bug them to death it's not running at full boost 100% of the time and it's runs hotter than 60c. If that's you stay away. If you want a $200 card to just plug in and play away without watching afterburner all the time then this is a great card for that guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjT4t1K5BxE&t=6m53s
That reviewer says that in Doom the IQ was much better on the 480 than 970. Any others notice that or even compare them? He prefers to use the lower fps 480 than 970 because it looks that much better.
Colors probably and not the random 'oops texture settings are low again, must've been a driver bug!' like here,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9ZG7pA5INc&t=2m15s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjT4t1K5BxE&t=6m53s
That reviewer says that in Doom the IQ was much better on the 480 than 970. Any others notice that or even compare them? He prefers to use the lower fps 480 than 970 because it looks that much better.
Hahaha.
NV is racist and do not render arab textures fully
I just find it weird these 'bugs' never result in worse performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjT4t1K5BxE&t=6m53s
That reviewer says that in Doom the IQ was much better on the 480 than 970. Any others notice that or even compare them? He prefers to use the lower fps 480 than 970 because it looks that much better.
hmm someone wrote this link :
Nvidia cards don't display full RGB color via HDMIhere's a fix
dunno reviewer tested with HDMI or not.
Same old trick. The Nvidia driver switches to their 'optimised' shaders which screws up the IQ but gets more fps. Apparently every time it happens it's a driver bug. I just find it weird these 'bugs' never result in worse performance.
woah, will this ever be implemented into dota 2?Vulkan is nice: