This is not intended as a fanboy type question but just wondering if anyone has done tests on the newest cards on lower spec or old systems? In general the addition of a modern graphics hardware is a great way of cheaply transforming a relatively mundane system in to a perfectly usable gaming system. Often however graphics card perform radically different on lower spec systems than what reviews on high spec systems may show.
For example if we skip back a few generation and have a look at some of the higher spec cards from NV and AMD they both made some great cards but that had interesting quirks. The NV cards for example are a bit more picky about the PCIe bus. If you don't have a full 16 lanes to play with or are stuck with older PCIe 1.0 slots the NV cards would see a greater hit in performance than AMDs. These older NV cards also have a slightly less complete implementation of DX12. In some rare occasions with games that NV cards would have to fall back on the CPU for the missing compute. In so games that required this were far more effected by CPU performance on NV cards than AMDs. The NV cards did have an ace up there sleeve in Physx. AMDs cards had no hardware implementation of Physx so any games supporting this would be greatly effected by the performance of the CPU in the system unless the effects are disabled. Knowing these traits can greatly help many pick the card that would get the most out of there system and the games they intend to play.
So I am wondering if anyone has done any similar investigation in to the newest generation of chips? Have things changed much?
For example if we skip back a few generation and have a look at some of the higher spec cards from NV and AMD they both made some great cards but that had interesting quirks. The NV cards for example are a bit more picky about the PCIe bus. If you don't have a full 16 lanes to play with or are stuck with older PCIe 1.0 slots the NV cards would see a greater hit in performance than AMDs. These older NV cards also have a slightly less complete implementation of DX12. In some rare occasions with games that NV cards would have to fall back on the CPU for the missing compute. In so games that required this were far more effected by CPU performance on NV cards than AMDs. The NV cards did have an ace up there sleeve in Physx. AMDs cards had no hardware implementation of Physx so any games supporting this would be greatly effected by the performance of the CPU in the system unless the effects are disabled. Knowing these traits can greatly help many pick the card that would get the most out of there system and the games they intend to play.
So I am wondering if anyone has done any similar investigation in to the newest generation of chips? Have things changed much?