Hardware & Technical ED BETA 3.3 at 4k/FPS Minimum GPU

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Just curious. I can't actually afford a GPU right now, but I like to know what to keep on my wishlists just in case there's a price crash.

Anyhoo, with all the new ring shadows in beta, my GPU just falls over screaming for help as my FPS plummets. So I've had to turn some settings down a tad. Game still looks good though.

Anyhoo, I also have a 4k TV, and I was wondering what is the cheapest GPU I can buy that can do 4k resolution at 60fps, on ultra in ED (beta)?
And that's 60fps on planets and stations, because almost any GPU can do 60fps in space. Lol

I'm currently using a GTX 770 2GB, paired with an AMD FX 8320 and 8Gb of RAM.
(I need more ram too. Lol).
And a 600w PSU.

My 770 can't really do 4k so it'd be nice to have 4k gaming, providing it can do it at 60fps. But I don't need overkill.

Suggestions?

 

[Morbad]

Beta performance is quite similar to live, only a few frames lower in most places at equivalent settings.

If you never want to dip below 60 fps, you're looking at a GTX 1080 Ti, GTX 2080, or better (Titan XP, Titan V, or 2080 Ti would certainly do the trick). If you are willing to tolerate some dips below 60fps, or ease up on some settings, you can get away with a 1080, 2070, maybe even a properly tweaked 1070 Ti or Vega 64.

You will probably run into a few CPU limited areas with an FX-8320 as well. The main render thread can be quite demanding and Vishera doesn't have the best per-core performance.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Beta performance is quite similar to live, only a few frames lower in most places at equivalent settings.

If you never want to dip below 60 fps, you're looking at a GTX 1080 Ti, GTX 2080, or better (Titan XP, Titan V, or 2080 Ti would certainly do the trick). If you are willing to tolerate some dips below 60fps, or ease up on some settings, you can get away with a 1080, 2070, maybe even a properly tweaked 1070 Ti or Vega 64.

You will probably run into a few CPU limited areas with an FX-8320 as well. The main render thread can be quite demanding and Vishera doesn't have the best per-core performance.

Hmmm, I can't afford to re-do my whole rig to not bottleneck a new GPU, so I'll probably need to lower my standards a bit.

How about Ultra at 1080p/60fps? with maybe some supersampling to smooth out those jaggies...?

 

[Morbad]

Hmmm, I can't afford to re-do my whole rig to not bottleneck a new GPU, so I'll probably need to lower my standards a bit.

How about Ultra at 1080p/60fps? with maybe some supersampling to smooth out those jaggies...?

Your CPU won't be a huge bottleneck and where it is the limiting factor, lowering resolution won't help dramatically.

Anyway, 1080p is a quarter of the pixels of 4k and it's not at all difficult to do 1080p60. Supersampling performs essentially as one would expect for the internal resolution used. 1440p or 1080p with 1.5x SS should keep at least 60fps with a 1070 or a Vega 56/64.

 

[TorTorden_VR]

Even a 1080ti would probably see drops below 60fps in 4k.

Quite frankly I just output 1080p when I'm playing games on my 65" UHD.

The in-tv upscaling, even in game mode does rather well, of course this depends on the model.
I have Panasonic dx900, so not exactly budget.

I'm sitting just over 2m from mine but this is still far enough to make the benefits between upscaled 1080p or native 4k minuscule, and never dipping below 60fps as well as being capable of cranking all settings to ultra is in my opinion worth sacrificing the pixels.

And by doing so I still run the hdmi cable directly through my avr instead of having to run two cables.

 

[Morbad]

Even a 1080ti would probably see drops below 60fps in 4k.

At vanilla ultra settings? Almost never. Looking at some things at the wrong angles in the vanity camera where DoF eats half the frame rate to make things look blurry, sure. Otherwise you need to find the right ice world and do donughts in third person view at twilight.

 

[Joe nose]

At vanilla ultra settings? Almost never. Looking at some things at the wrong angles in the vanity camera where DoF eats half the frame rate to make things look blurry, sure. Otherwise you need to find the right ice world and do donughts in third person view at twilight.

I’d agree with this. I ran a TitanX Pascal with an i7 2600k. No noticable bottleneck for me - at least in Elite - and it gave me 60fps at 4K the vast majority of the time. It was certainly enough to do the job.

You can pick up this GPU on eBay for around £700 at present.