DanimalTwo Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 I received my new EVGA GTX 980 4GB FTW yesterday and got it installed today. Gained about 10 fps (from 20 to 30 in outdoors) running SR:LE in Nvidia 3D Vision. Trying to figure out settings to get the FPS up some more. Link to comment
Neovalen Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Congrats on getting your card. Mine should be here this afternoon... crossing my fingers. :) Link to comment
Vexzarium Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 I received my new EVGA GTX 980 4GB FTW yesterday and got it installed today. Gained about 10 fps (from 20 to 30 in outdoors) running SR:LE in Nvidia 3D Vision. Trying to figure out settings to get the FPS up some more.What was your previous card? Curious to see what you upgraded from. Link to comment
DanimalTwo Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 (edited) What was your previous card? Curious to see what you upgraded from.Actually two upgrades. I had an EVGA GTX 680 4GB FTW, that was replaced with my son's hand-me-down EVGA GTX 770 4GB Classified probably about 4 weeks ago. Now the EVGA GTX 980 4GB FTW. The GTX 980, was a hugh upgrade over the previous two cards, at least for Skyrim. Also, note that I need the speed because I am running with nvidia 3D Vision, so I need 120 fps just to see 60 fps. If it wasn't for the 3D Vision the 770 would have been good enough. EDIT: FYI, using Skyrim Performance Monitor, even with the new card I am frequently going over 3.5 GB VRAM and often close to 4 GB, otherwise if it wasn't for that, I would have bought a GTX 970 and would have been screwed by the card actually only having 3.5 GB VRAM effectively. With some changes I am now getting about 40 fps outdoors and close to 60 fps indoors (keep in mind double that due to 3D Vision) and I am only running at 1080p. Edited February 26, 2015 by DanimalTwo Link to comment
Neovalen Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Alright, new card came in the mail and I've put it through it's benchmarking paces... amazing piece of silicon this one. Firestrike Score Updated. Actual boost is an amazing 1567Mhz. Max temperature is 69c on auto fan profile, setting to 60% I can keep it under 65c. I haven't even touched the voltage. Link to comment
Vexzarium Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 That is massively better than your last card, congrats. Link to comment
Spock Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 I do think I said something about DoF and blur effects being costly a while back! :) Those are just not worth maxing out... even in the witcher two they are just brutal. Mainly because high width blurring cost so much when you increase resolution that it is just too crazy. You can also see that when using ENB in skyrim with the more pretty bokeh DoF´s. Pretty for screenshots.. but brutal on the performance. Hmm... In my experience they are o.k.NLA, Opethfeldt and Lumen DoF costs me around 2-3 FPS at 1600p. I didn't really test the FPS difference in Witcher 2, but I managed to keep 60 FPS with blur and DoF most of the time. The difference between 30 and 60 is hardly noticeable in Witcher 2 with blur imho. The cinematic DoF slowed my system to a crawl though (10-15 FPS), but I think that was due to a bug. Link to comment
Aiyen Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 DoF is very scaleable. My own DoF cost less then 1 FPS at 1440p. But it is no where near as pretty as the really fancy ones can be. The main difference is also partly with what you mention. Some DoF are for cinematic and screenarchery purposes.. those do not work for playing the game since they will just distract more then add to the gameplay. However they will tend to be a lot more costly. They are however really pretty and really help to guide the focus and make the overall cinematic more epic to watch. Link to comment
Neovalen Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Just finished Tomb Raider 2013... amazing game. Card performed beautifully the whole time. If you haven't played it, I suggest you do. Its linear but had a lot of fun from beginning to end doing a 100% completion run. Link to comment
Nozzer66 Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Yeah it is pretty linear but who cares when it looks forkin awesome, right? :) Link to comment
Vexzarium Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 (edited) And her wrists are strong enough to fire two DE 50's..... Edited March 10, 2015 by Vexzarium Link to comment
statmonster Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 (edited) Yeah - It was quite good. Looks very good, no serious bugs, interesting (if absurd and predictable) plot, fun gameplay - except for the rediculous QTEs. Due to its linear nature it lack the replayability (or modability) of Skyrim. Edited March 10, 2015 by statmonster Link to comment
Neovalen Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Agree, replay ability is non existant unless you walk away for a year or so and come back to it. It's a nice romp though, sad that the next one is an Xbox one exclusive (timed, so they say...). Link to comment
Jverv Posted April 30, 2015 Author Share Posted April 30, 2015 Looks like the 980 ti is coming out soon: https://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-ti-detailed-39412 Link to comment
Neovalen Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Looks like the 980 ti is coming out soon: https://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-ti-detailed-39412Also saw an article saying the price tag is a whopping $800-$1000. Craziness, but sounds awesome. Link to comment
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