The Witcher 3: Is your system ready - Nvidia official system requirements
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GavinUK86
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The 980ti is going to be pretty expensive though.
hermeslyre
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We're so close to new cards, I would personally wait. Last big launch was the 970/980 and it was priced so competitively we saw price drops a crossed the board. Not to say I expect that to happen again, but it's possible.
But if you choose not to, the 970 is a great card. and with the 2 game bundle it's made even more impressive for the price. I've had it since launch and it's been fun maxing everything out again.
GavinUK86
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legacyzero
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What are 670 users looking at, performance-wise?
hermeslyre
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Unless I'm mistaken the 670 is near the GTX 960 in performance. The Chart in OP suggests high setting 1080p for 40-60FPS on the 960. I'd expect somewhere near that, give or take.
If in doubt google benchmarks for 670 vs GTX 960 to see where they fall
If they could underclock a CPU to 2ghz and it still ran well I doubt he even needs to OC
. It made me feel more confident that my 6300 will run it fine, at the very least on par with the PS4 version.Did you install the monitoring software that came with it. I have a 970 too, the Asus one ,and it came with a monitoring software. I think nvidia inspector is good for this too.
hermeslyre
Neo Member
Download afterburner, or something similar. You may have to go into the options of afterburner to enable monitoring VRAM I can't remember the defaults.
I have a 970 and I honestly don't worry about it. Going over 3.5GB is just like going over the VRAM for any card, in fact the way I understand it, that 500MB slower VRAM buffer is still better than system RAM in that case. Less pulling traffic over the PCI-E bus once it starts acting as a cache and filling up. It can just swap shit back and forth all on the GPU, instead of going to the RAM.
If they could underclock a CPU to 2ghz and it still ran well I doubt he even needs to OC
That's true.
I'm assuming the CPU they downclocked was an Intel i5 or i7, which is far more efficient per clock cycle than an AMD, but even so. If either of you do end up seeing some sort of CPU bottleneck, you can always consider an overclock at that point.
Use a tool like MSI afterburner, it monitors lots of different GPU stats and framerates. It's a great tool, you can also use the bundled program RivaTuner to limit your framerate.
I'll look into it. EVGA have like 6 different program I'll check wich one does that.
Does MSI afterburner works even if I don't have an MSI card ?
Yeah afterburner works on all cards I believe, I use it on a Galax 970.
LurkerPrime
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So will I be able to use Hairworks independant of the other 'Gameworks' features? Or is it a straight Gameworks: on/off setting.
I need dat hair.
I need dat hair.
Aye, that's what I intend to do. If Witcher 3 is the game that needs me to push the CPU more I'll get aftermarket cooler and just bump it up to 4.5Ghz
CambriaRising
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Usually they are independent settings.
hermeslyre
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LurkerPrime
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7DollarHagane
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My 670 is crying at its age..
What a sad day. At least I have ps4.
What a sad day. At least I have ps4.
Your 670 is better than your PS4.
Krappadizzle
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Just treat it to a nice dinner and things'll get better. Your 670 is a great card bub! Don't hate it yet.
viveks86
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Thabian
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According to this chart from GTA 5 the 960 is around 25% faster than a 670 for newer games. That is if we assume that Witcher 3 will perform similarly to GTA 5, which is not a huge stretch since they are both large, open world games.
Windom Earle
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cheers!
7DollarHagane
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It is but I expect pretty comparable performance here with slightly less hassle on ps4.
Maybe 10 frames better or better anti aliasing.
Overclock it. I've had games where my overclocked 670 did twice what the ps4 did. So in the best case scenario it's actually 30 vs 60 fps at similar settings.
Those 10 frames are going to matter when reviews are saying there are frame rate issues with the PS4 version (which may or may not be completely resolved by patches, but I'd prefer to be safe).
Unknown Soldier
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I have a creaking i7-950, 12 GB DDR3, and a 970.
It looks like 4K is hopelessly out of reach for me, I'll have to settle for 1080p.
It looks like 4K is hopelessly out of reach for me, I'll have to settle for 1080p.
NoMoreTrolls
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I know that feel. I'm waiting until the next cards come out for the big 4k upgrade.
BigTnaples
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Not hopeless.
You could probably run it on High instead of Uber, with AA off, at 4K at 30fps.
Give or take a few settings and gameworks.
The 4K would be worth it imo.
Also, 1440p is a great compromise when you can't get 4K running well enough. Still looks much better than 1080p, and the cost is not nearly as great.
hermeslyre
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I doubt you'll get much if any improvement doubling your RAM for Witcher 3. Recommended requirement is 8GB.
DJ_Lae
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According to this chart from GTA 5 the 960 is around 25% faster than a 670 for newer games. That is if we assume that Witcher 3 will perform similarly to GTA 5, which is not a huge stretch since they are both large, open world games.
Huh, the 970 is faster than I thought it would be - my 7970 is really showing its age now.
Yeah that's basically what I do with GTA V and my 970. 1440p + FXAA looks great.
RoyaleDuke
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This game is sounding like it's really well optimized, that's pretty awesome to be honest.
Even after a year BF4 is still a performance trainwreck half the time.
Good on you CDP, I can't wait to play on ultra and experience this potentially incredible game.
Even after a year BF4 is still a performance trainwreck half the time.
Good on you CDP, I can't wait to play on ultra and experience this potentially incredible game.
Honestly, I'm just buying it in the hopes that all that money will help Cyberpunk 2077 be the best hardcore cyberpunk science fiction first person CRPG thing ever.
i know someone will say that is always going there but:
most of games are for consoles, so actual consoles have cards that can be compared with a gtx 750 or maybe a 760, or a R9 270, so with something that is 2 times the power of that card, it will be hard to find something that is not MAX RUNNING on a 970.
The card inside a consoles can't be changed so this hardware will be the basic hardware for games for the next 3 or 4 years ( at least ), anyway if you wait a little maybe price will drop.
As for the GTX 770 4GB ( my were 2 PALIT jetstream ) is the best GPU ever made but Direct x 12 are a problem, anyway if you have a 770 4GB don't change it now. Is insane how they put it nearly out of market just force customers to buy something more expensive.
Unless a concrete release date and has been announced for the next batch of hardware, the best time to buy a new GPU is always right now. They don't go down in price, they just get phased out. You'll drive yourself insane waiting for the next best thing - the 970 deal is a great one, and if the alternative is continuing to use a broken card - well, it's a no brainer!
In a benchmark linked earlier in the thread, Witcher 3 didn't go over 2.5GB VRAM usage, and that was at 1440p.
Shaqiri1987
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I feel good that i will be able to run the game at 2560x1440 at max settings with my SLI 780 Ti's with a very healthy overclock.
viveks86
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Wallpapers, wallpaper, get em while they are hot!
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/download-exclusive-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-wallpapers
Full size up to 5K at source!
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/download-exclusive-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-wallpapers
Full size up to 5K at source!
GTA V is very unfriendly to AMD though.
...I don't think I'm going to play this game for the next two weeks.
Aren't you suppose to attach some coolant device to it?
That's nice to know.