nvidia better for blizzard games?

[hodgenutts]

Is it true NVIDIA is better for blizzard games? I play W.o.W. , Diablo 3 and starcraft 2. Someone told me a 660ti would serve me better on Blizzard titles than a AMD HD 7950 vid card. I thought smaller memory bus on the 660ti would hold it back, but they still insisted it was better for blizzard games. Resolution would be 1080p with max settings.

 

[Plimogz]

Yes, Blizzard games do favor nVidia across the board. And with the 660ti and 7950 being pretty close in benchmarks on average, the green card would get my vote as well. Now, if you're willing to overclock, the 7950 does gain on the 660ti ("gain" when speaking relative to Blizz games; because overclocked 7950 spanks oc'd 660ti on average) and the question does get somewhat muddied...

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Either brand is fine for blizzard games. They aren't exactly GPU killing games.

 

[thtadthtshldntbe]

You want an Intel CPU, as much IPC as you can buy, and clocked as high as you can for WoW in particular and SC2.

Any midrange graphics card does WoW and SC2.

CPU then a combination of RAM and SSD are more significant for WoW and SC2.

 

[Piano Man]

AMD caught up a bit with 12.11 for WoW. Still not as strong as nV, but its much better

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Catalyst_12.11_Performance/20.html

 

[hodgenutts]

I have a 2500K overclocked for my CPU. And true historically W.o.W. was CPU dependant, with the new "mists" expansion if you don't have a good GPU, you won't be able to run the new content maxed. I tested the new content on an HD 5770 and was getting fps in the high teens to low 20's on max settings in the new content at 1080p. LoL so GPU does matter now.

 

[Leyawiin]

The CPU is more important (and definitely Intel favored).

 

[hodgenutts]

Got the CPU covered, but you can't have a quadcore Intel and an NVIDIA 8400gs and think your good to go

 

[Red Hawk]

It's true that Nvidia holds a significant edge over AMD in Blizzard titles, but like VulgarDisplay said, no Blizzard game will really push the high end cards from either chip designer, unless you're running at some crazy 1440p+ resolution or using super sample AA. At 1080p you're likely to run into a CPU bottleneck before you run into a GPU bottleneck.

 

[MustangSVT]

Nvidia seems to perform a bit better and less issues. but AMD seems to have better bang for buck so its up to you.