The Witcher 3 runs at 1080p ULTRA ~60 fps on a 980

BigTnaples said:
Probably yes.


Is the 970 OC'd at all? Many of the OC'ed Editions of the 970 come very close to or equal to stock 980 performance.

Also, the builds that were getting 60FPS on a Single 980 were months old. Performance has improved since then, so that may have closed the gap even further.
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It has...

1140MHz Core (Boost Clock:1279MHz) (OC Mode)
1114MHz Core (Boost Clock:1253MHz) (Gaming Mode)
1051MHz Core (Boost Clock:1178MHz) (Silent Mode)

I need to see how I have it setup.
 
ecosse_011172 said:
It has...

1140MHz Core (Boost Clock:1279MHz) (OC Mode)
1114MHz Core (Boost Clock:1253MHz) (Gaming Mode)
1051MHz Core (Boost Clock:1178MHz) (Silent Mode)

I need to see how I have it setup.
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A stock 980 for reference.
GTX 980 Engine Specs:
2048CUDA Cores
1126Base Clock (MHz)
1216Boost Clock (MHz)
144Texture Fill Rate (GigaTexels/sec)

GTX 980 Memory Specs:
7.0 GbpsMemory Clock
4 GBStandard Memory Config
GDDR5Memory Interface
256-bitMemory Interface Width
224Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)
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Looking at review benches of your card at 1080p it is usually within 5-10 FPS of the 980.

So if a unoptimized build from a few months ago, and with older Nvidia Drivers, can get 60fps, with a little optimization, which CDPR has said they have already done not since the youtube videos, but further optimized the past 2 weeks, you should be fine with 1-2 different settings, if even that. Who is to say that the 980 was not averaging higher than 60? 62-65? Closing that gap even furthur.

We will know soon enough. But if you have an OC'd 970 and you are playing at 1080p, you are in good shape.
 
3570k/970 oc here.

Think I'm gonna switch my monitors and play on my secondary 1080p display instead of the 1440 so I can crank it up a bit more. I was planning to do the same with GTA but got it running well at 1440 - I feel W3 might be a bit more demanding.
 
Dictator93 said:
Considering a 960 runs the game on high according to Nvidia... you have no reason to worry. Recommended and min specs are just guestimates and should not be interpretted as being biblical truth. Your card has 2x the Flops of the PS4 on top of way more bandwidth. It is an impossibility that it will run worse, I guarantee it.

Also, I am quite positive that the 770 is going to run the game at ultra cvars (no hairworks) or MSAA at 30 fps.
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Okay I will believe you ;)
 
2500 (non k)
GTX 970
8GB Ram

It's my CPU that's gonna hold me back, I just wish I knew by how much.

Right now I'm replaying Witcher 2 at a solid 60FPS at max settings. With Ubersampling, I can maintain 40-50FPS.

Then again, AC Unity had 2500k as the minimum CPU too and I could run that at a mix of high and ultra settings without much issues at all and that game was an unoptimized mess.
 
I'll probably be able to play the game in almost everything in ultra, don't you think ?

My config :

i7 2600K @ 3.8GHz
16 GB RAM
GTX 970
 
Wonder what kind of performance I can expect? I can run Dragon Age: Inquisition at 60FPS (mostly) on ultra.

I have a i7920 overclocked to 3.5ghz, a 780 GTX and 12g or RAM. hopefully I can lower a few settings and keep it mostly on ultra. :'(
 
BigTnaples said:
A stock 980 for reference.


Looking at review benches of your card at 1080p it is usually within 5-10 FPS of the 980.

So if a unoptimized build from a few months ago, and with older Nvidia Drivers, can get 60fps, with a little optimization, which CDPR has said they have already done not since the youtube videos, but further optimized the past 2 weeks, you should be fine with 1-2 different settings, if even that. Who is to say that the 980 was not averaging higher than 60? 62-65? Closing that gap even furthur.

We will know soon enough. But if you have an OC'd 970 and you are playing at 1080p, you are in good shape.
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Thanks a lot for your informative and helpful post, much appreciated.
 
I was going to get the Ps4 version, but looks like Ps4 version has some framerate problems.
I'm wondering can my PC pull steady 30fps on Witcher 3?
Specs:
Fx8320 3.50 Ghz
8 GB ram
R9 280 3 GB
 
  • i7 2600k
  • 8GB RAM
  • 2X GTX660 SLI

Contemplating getting a 970 for this. Not sure how well my cards will handle it. I presume SLI will be supported day one considering how PC-centric CDPR are.
 
thejpfin said:
I was going to get the Ps4 version, but looks like Ps4 version has some framerate problems.
I'm wondering can my PC pull steady 30fps on Witcher 3?
Specs:
Fx8320 3.50 Ghz
8 GB ram
R9 280 3 GB
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Absolutley. Your specs are better than a PS4's. And you've got options in order to incease or reduce graphics settings that matter/don't matter to you vs being stuck with whatever compromises the devs decided on on a PS4.
 
Wanted to play this on ps4 to save a few bucks but after reading reviews and hearing about the performance problems i guess PC it is, do the gog.com galaxy client automatically download patches for games ALA steam or not?
 
3930k @ 4.8Ghz
Titan X 1300Mhz core, +350mhz memory

Hoping I'll be able to get 30-40fps with Ultra, and no anti-aliasing other than in post.
 
Well, I went ahead and got the PC version over PS4. I expect pretty much the same visuals (a mix of low-medium) @30fps with a i5-3570k @4.2-4.4ghz and overclocked 7850, but I decided I want to be able to tweak and have the ability to use some UI mods in the future.
 
Ugh, I hate the 4K master race people. They are worst. 4K pixels this, 4K pixels that, No one cares!

The human eye can't even distinguish above 1440p except on 500+ inch screens!!!

;)
 
  • 2600K @ 4.4 GHZ
  • 16 GB DDR3
  • R9 290 DirectCU ii OC

I should be OK to run this game around max. 60 fps @ 1080p is what I want, so I don't mind disabling AA to achieve that. At the same time, I think i'll be picking this up on Xbone first.
 
Citadel said:
  • 2600K @ 4.4 GHZ
  • 16 GB DDR3
  • R9 290 DirectCU ii OC

I should be OK to run this game around max. 60 fps @ 1080p is what I want, so I don't mind disabling AA to achieve that. At the same time, I think i'll be picking this up on Xbone first.
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Most recent x1 footage was stutter-city. I am not sure I would recommend that...
 
  • R9 280x
  • i5-2500k
  • 8gb RAM

So when I saw the min required CPU being my very own 2500k, I thought I would be picking up the PS4 version. I figured the performance would dive below a version optimized for 30fps on the PS4.

This thread gives me doubts that my system will handle the game worse than a PS4. I'd like to play it on the PC for continuity.
 
Class_A_Ninja said:
  • R9 280x
  • i5-2500k
  • 8gb RAM

So when I saw the min required CPU being my very own 2500k, I thought I would be picking up the PS4 version. I figured the performance would dive below a version optimized for 30fps on the PS4.

This thread gives me doubts that my system will handle the game worse than a PS4. I'd like to play it on the PC for continuity.
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No way in hell is the PS4 going to perform better than your rig. You won't be maxing it, but expect 60 FPS on highish settings.

And 60 FPs relaly makes this game shine.
 
BigTnaples said:
A stock 980 for reference.


Looking at review benches of your card at 1080p it is usually within 5-10 FPS of the 980.

So if a unoptimized build from a few months ago, and with older Nvidia Drivers, can get 60fps, with a little optimization, which CDPR has said they have already done not since the youtube videos, but further optimized the past 2 weeks, you should be fine with 1-2 different settings, if even that. Who is to say that the 980 was not averaging higher than 60? 62-65? Closing that gap even furthur.

We will know soon enough. But if you have an OC'd 970 and you are playing at 1080p, you are in good shape.
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I'm hoping my 780 Ti is up to the task for this game. I have it OC'd as well since it's the EVGA Classified version of the card.

I would upgrade to a 980 and I already can, but with the release of Vive at the end of the year I'd rather wait for Volta and SLI those babies.

Edit: Hopefully, I can mostly do max settings @ 1080p.
 
Had decided to not upgrade to 970 after seeing console footage looking great,after hearing about fps problems on ps4, i'm hoping my gtx 760 will perform better than ps4
 
Finished the Steam preload last night, I am officially hyped.

2500k @ 4.0ghz
16 gig ddr3 1600
(1x) 970, quite aggressively overclocked.

I hope I will be able to get ~60 fps on my ROG Swift (1440p) without killing the settings too much; g-sync does make FPS in the 40-50 range much more bearable, though.
 
JordanKZ said:
Here's hoping my heavily overclocked 780Ti's are able to do the same at 1440p. Somehow, I seriously doubt it.
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The 780 Ti is within swinging range of the 980 at higher frequencies (or able to beat a 980s stock clocks), don't see why it would give any issues at 1440p beyond maybe running out of VRAM.

I run mine at their factory overclock (1124 MHz) at 1440p and haven't seen a need to increase further, but have gotten them both stable at around 1230 MHz so I might give it a bit more juice if they start to chug in this game.
 
I'll do what I'm doing with ALL my games lately, besides PCARS, GTX 970.

Everything on Ultra, DSR @ 2560x1440, 4xMSAA (with MLAA on) and FPS capped at 30 with RTSS or NVIDIA's adaptative VSYNC. No dips, never.

Can't ask for better image quality than this. Anything beyond this point is usually not worth the performance cost and IQ isn't greatly improved (playing from comfy couch).
 
Crzy1 said:
The 780 Ti is within swinging range of the 980 at higher frequencies (or able to beat a 980s stock clocks), don't see why it would give any issues at 1440p beyond maybe running out of VRAM.

I run mine at their factory overclock (1124 MHz) at 1440p and haven't seen a need to increase further, but have gotten them both stable at around 1230 MHz so I might give it a bit more juice if they start to chug in this game.
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Does this mean I won't have trouble playing this game at 1080p?
 
Kezen said:
This latest build of The Witcher 3 is said to report smoother than the preview build CD Projekt RED showcased back in January, and implements NVIDIA’s HairWorks (which Gamestar was also allowed to enable, and managed to sustain almost 60fps continuously).
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Err, how much of this has been proven completely false?

Because we already know that HairWorks DOES NOT sustain 60fps on a 980s on the April "Youtube" build. They couldn't even show it publicly for how bad it performed.
 
Alright guys, what kind of performance can I expect from an i5 4690k and a gtx 970? Would I be able to put it on Ultra 1080p capped at 30fps?
 
What performance can I expect from an i5 4670k and a 2GB 7870?

I might upgrade my GPU shortly after release if my performance is too bad, but I just want to be able to play 60fps at 1920x1080 (or perhaps a little lower) regardless of graphical settings.
 
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