Crysis 3 1080p 980ti

[Magic Carpet]

From my experience games that came out before Maxwell tend to show similar results to this. After Maxwell came out, Nvidia would prioritise game optimisation for Maxwell, leaving Kepler users 2 months behind for optimisations.

Of course most of the online game benchmark results would have been made before Kepler optimised drivers were available which I think is a bit unfair to Kepler. Especially when you see 780 results being on par with an AMD 280X when it previously competed with a 290. The timing of the 'drop' in results is highly suspicious.

You highlighted the problem very well in your post. People make up their minds from early reviews, sneak peeks. When the stuff gets actually optimized, nobody seems to notice that anymore, unless you are personally trying to keep up with that (sometimes it's the only sure-way of knowing).

That's not to say that Maxwell isn't better than Kepler. I'm sure that it's optimisation has also improved like most cards do shortly after release.

Maxwell isn't worse than Kepler, but some of the pre-Maxwell games didn't get to see as much optimization as Kepler did back in the day. Quite possible, Crysis 3 was designed around those GPUs, when Maxwell existed only on paper.

Ok, here are some recent benchmarks.

Remember, the OP is at 1920x1200, noot 1080p.

Cheers. I don't like 290's but man, it has aged so well.

 

[moonbogg]

Some videos for reference. 1200p 2xMSAA fps stays above 60 but at 4xMSAA it drops to mid 50's. 1440p was included for reference with 2xMSAA. That drops to 40's. With two cards running, FPS at 1440P is higher than a single card at 1200p.

https://youtu.be/6Us8HFWsw9k

https://youtu.be/pBKvwsLGxXM

https://youtu.be/t1w0HJ2YYLw

 

[techgeeknyc]

Some videos for reference. 1200p 2xMSAA fps stays above 60 but at 4xMSAA it drops to mid 50's. 1440p was included for reference with 2xMSAA. That drops to 40's. With two cards running, FPS at 1440P is higher than a single card at 1200p.

https://youtu.be/6Us8HFWsw9k

https://youtu.be/pBKvwsLGxXM

https://youtu.be/t1w0HJ2YYLw

Awesome, many thanks for this

This is very helpful, indeed it looks like our cards are performing similarly for your single GPU case. I wish I had the capability to get SLI but built a mini-itx system due to space constraints...

Any word on when the replacement GPU for the 980ti might arrive ? How much do you think a used 980ti in perfect condition might fetch if one were to sell it and upgrade to the new one at that point ? a