Hardware & Technical How Powerful is Your GPU?

Super_Duty

Super_Duty
I'm running a R290x, MSI Lightning w/ 4gb GDDR5 @ 1080. Card was purchased with the intent of running at 4K, thus I purchased 2 of them. These are massive cards btw, some good deals to be had used. Just make sure your case can accommodate...

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3dfx... with the proper Open GL drivers, what a sight to behold!!!

Rall said:
When I finally replaced it with a Voodoo 2 - It was glorious. I miss you 3dfx.

I don't miss the pass through cables.
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clivewil

clivewil
Rall said:
A lot more powerful than my old Matrox Mystique, man that thing was junk - I still regret buying it. I bought it because it supported MechWarrior 2, but it only supported lower resolutions so I still played MW2 with CPU rendering at 1024*768.

When I finally replaced it with a Voodoo 2 - It was glorious. I miss you 3dfx.

I don't miss the pass through cables.
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+1 rep for the nostalgia trip.

and yeah, that Mystique - i never had one, but i recall my roommate swearing at his while i gamed in ease and comfort with my Voodoo 2
 

Fendalton

Fendalton
Synthetic Frost said:
Yup, same one I use. Though I got a second one on black friday of last year on the cheap, and that was the best $120 bucks I ever spent. I've never had an SLI capable rig before, but MAN. 2x SLI GTX 770's matches and even beats a single GTX 980, for less than half the cost.

The 770's will also get a pretty decent performance boost from Direct X 12, so as it is, I won't be upgrading my GPUs for quite a while. Not at least until the next gen. Pascal at the earliest.
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So you would recommend?

I cannto decide if I get another GTX770 SC ACX (If I can find one) or sell it for a GTX980 (4GB.)

I am assuming running x2 2GB cards gives you 4GB of VRAM
 

Synthetic Frost

Synthetic Frost
Fendalton said:
So you would recommend?

I cannto decide if I get another GTX770 SC ACX (If I can find one) or sell it for a GTX980 (4GB.)

I am assuming running x2 2GB cards gives you 4GB of VRAM
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No. When running SLI or Crossfire, the cards are put into a "mirror mode". Basically the exact same game data is mirrored on both cards, and they just alternate rendering each frame back and forth when displaying it on the screen. So it's still 2GB of VRAM. But SLI scales really well. so you'll get pretty close to double the fps at the same resolution and graphics settings as you do now.

As I said already, unless you're playing at 4k or playing a game with some extreme high resolution texture mods, 2GB will be more than enough for at least a few more years. So you're fine. We're at kind of an awkward stage in gaming right now because anything faster than a GTX 680/770 is overkill for 1080p or 1440p at 60fps, but not fast enough for the "next step up", which is 4k. Even SLI'd GTX 980's are struggling to drive 4k (3840x2160) right now.

But if you're really set on getting more performance out of Elite, the best way to play games right now is to get a 120Hz or 144Hz 1080p or 1440p monitor, and play the games at the same settings you already are. Just at a higher frame rate. Luckily, that's exactly what twin 2GB GTX 770's would be perfect for. Playing Elite: Dangerous at a modest resolution, but 144fps.
 
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CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE

CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE
Clerec said:
Mine is on this page: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
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The problem with that site is, whilst it is a good resource, it seems that the high-end cards were high-end when they were released, not by today's definition of high-end (the toms hardware list is more relevant in that respect). I have a HD 5770 and it's in the high-end list. Is it high-end by today's standards? No.

(although it did hit 45FPS on 1920x1080 on Ultra once, which I thought was quite impressive given the age of the card)
 

Warlock Handlebars

Warlock Handlebars
In the days of Beta 1.03 (when I signed up), I was happy with running this on an i5 with no extra/alternative/additional GPU. OK, so I had originally built the PC for a different purpose.

The game teased me to buy a GTX650 (the most I thought I would need and could afford at the time). Frankly, I didn't really notice much of a difference, but a few experiments with analgyph 3D at 1080p 60fps understandably dropped to ~25fps.

Knowing I'd need more GPU grunt if I want to run with a VR headset (purely for ED), I went for an Asus GTX970 DirectCU Mini. I overclocked the card slightly and, also using GPU Tweak, limited the frame rate to 60fps. I used GeForce Experience to go for "optimal settings".

In game, I turned anti-aliasing OFF (with DSR rendering a larger image which is then downscaled I thought having AA enabled here was pointless), but crucially not limiting the frame rate; limit it here instead and I was getting way under 60fps...

Result: slick as you like. 60fps, only dropping occasionally (numerically but not visually noticeable to me), when going into the entrance of a station. Docking Computers mean I'm normally doing something else other than sitting there like an instructor next to a learner driver in a car with dual controls ;-)

I then had a play around with settings. As above but with no GPU Tweak frame limiter, and I was getting ~150fps. Pointless for a 1080p60 display, I know. I then went to low settings everywhere, 1920x1080... and was getting up to 900fps!!!

Actually, switching GPU has been part of the encouragement to go exploring. Mind you, it's also the driver for upgrading my A/V receiver and TV (to handle 4K and simplify the wiring), when I've finished my RL task of decorating the living room.
 

Synthetic Frost

Synthetic Frost
adoredtv said:
Don't rely on this or any single benchmark for the true reflection of your graphics performance. Passmark in particular is awful and bears no resemblance to reality. The R9 295X2 is the fastest card and yet it's down in 11th, behind the 290X which is the single-GPU version of the card. That makes no sense.
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While I agree with you that that link is not an accurate representation of the cards, the R9-295X2 is known for having EXTREMELY poor Crossfire scaling. Ever more so than 2 separate R9-295's linked in Crossfire mode. Between the manufacturing process of bundling two extremely hot GPUs on the same board, and the poor driver support for the X2 specifically, AMD kinda botched that one up.
 
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Syax

Syax
Super_Duty said:
I'm running a R290x, MSI Lightning w/ 4gb GDDR5 @ 1080. Card was purchased with the intent of running at 4K, thus I purchased 2 of them. These are massive cards btw, some good deals to be had used. Just make sure your case can accommodate...



Yeah tell me about it....had to almost squeeze and flex the case to fit the 290 version in! was lucky. Didn't fancy having to buy another case due to my stupidity of not giving myself installation space :D
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adoredtv

adoredtv
Synthetic Frost said:
While I agree with you that that link is not an accurate representation of the cards, the R9-295X2 is known for having EXTREMELY poor Crossfire scaling. Ever more so than 2 separate R9-295's linked in Crossfire mode. Between the manufacturing process of bundling two extremely hot GPUs on the same board, and the poor driver support for the X2 specifically, AMD kinda botched that one up.
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Never seen any evidence of this. The 295X2 is clearly faster than 970 SLI and gives 980 SLI a pretty close run based on the benchmarks I'm seeing.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_radeon_r9_295x2_review,17.html

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As far as temps go, it's watercooled and barely goes far above 60C.
 
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Heph

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I run an 870m in my gaming laptop. Laptop itself is a 3k gs60, and everything runs fine.

Since the 3k worked fine I purchased a 4k monitor and now I play on that. Slightly lower frame rates but works fine.

Since elite is so much space (stars and whatnot) 30fps is enough for gameplay to appear smooth for me.

I average 30-40fps on 4k and 40-50fps on 3k
 

Fenster

Fenster
Radeon 6870 2 GB

Works perfect in ed... Other than hyperspace stutter, which I don't believe is vid card related.

1080p ultra, fxaa

I just wish it supported the background video recording of games - that's my only complaint.
... And it is loud... No more xfx cards for me ( my previous NVIDIA xfx card was loud too)
 
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adoredtv

adoredtv
Fenster said:
Radeon 6870 2 GB

Works perfect in ed... Other than hyperspace stutter, which I don't believe is vid card related.

1080p ultra, fxaa

I just wish it supported the background video recording of games - that's my only complaint.
... And it is loud... No more xfx cards for me ( my previous NVIDIA xfx card was loud too)
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You can probably set the fan speed much lower and it'll be fine. I had an XFX 6850 running silent and never going above 70C. Just keep an eye on your temps while gaming.
 

SlackR

Banned
SlackR
Two 980s in SLI and it's still not enough to get the VR experience I crave! Bring on better drivers and DX12 me thinks! :)
 

avow555

avow555
Fenster said:
Radeon 6870 2 GB

Works perfect in ed... Other than hyperspace stutter, which I don't believe is vid card related.

1080p ultra, fxaa

I just wish it supported the background video recording of games - that's my only complaint.
... And it is loud... No more xfx cards for me ( my previous NVIDIA xfx card was loud too)
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You can set your card/fan speed with the catalyst software that comes with the AMD/radeon cards.
My older 5870 runs a fair noise at max frequency so I have set them to the default 600/900 and an appropriate fan speed and Elite runs very smoothly on my 27" iiyama, without the jumbo jet take-off sound :)
 
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