Single 6950 vs single GTX 570 Battlefield 3?

[saratoga172]

I haven't measured how much ram my card uses but it wouldn't surprise me

 

[Silverforce11]

I recommended [H] because they've done an excellent analysis of the IQ of the different AA modes so you can decide for yourself if you "need" 4xMSAA. Running on default ULTRA enables 4xMSAA AND post AA, but once you have post AA enabled it is pointless to have MSAA on.

I already said NV cards performs better with MSAA. With it off, AMD cards usually have the edge.

BF3 is a unique game in that settings on ULTRA will use extra VRAM if you have it. Its used to stream in higher res models/textures at a further view distance so the game looks better the more vram you have. This only occurs on ULTRA settings. On High, the game should not be streaming above 1gb vram. It's an automatic feature.

So unless DICE is lying in their presentations, on ULTRA, a 2gb vram gpu has higher res models/textures further away than a 1gb or 1.25gb vram gpu.

ps. ~40 fps in SP is unplayable in MP.

 

[maybeshewill]

Thanks very much for the help guys, been interesting to read.

I'm just wondering.. currently I have a TX750 power supply. I know it will handle a single GTX 570, but when I add another in the future (when games are giving the GTX 570 a hard time), can the TX750 handle a second GTX 570?

 

[Silverforce11]

should be fine with 2 570s.

 

[nsavop]

Tx750 should be fine just keep a eye on power usage if you plan to overclock your CPU and gpu's.

 

[houe]

I have a 3GB 580gtx and I have seen peak memory usage go to 2066MB after playing BF3 for some time. This is at 1920x1200 resolution on ultra settings. I'm planning to get a 2nd card for eyefinity so I think most likely it was smart for me to get the 3GB models instead of the 1.5GB models. This game runs quite nicely on both types of cards but at 19x12 ultra i do feel I'm desiring a little bit more performance... at 1080p I think I'd be fine.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I have a 3GB 580gtx and I have seen peak memory usage go to 2066MB after playing BF3 for some time. This is at 1920x1200 resolution on ultra settings. I'm planning to get a 2nd card for eyefinity so I think most likely it was smart for me to get the 3GB models instead of the 1.5GB models. This game runs quite nicely on both types of cards but at 19x12 ultra i do feel I'm desiring a little bit more performance... at 1080p I think I'd be fine.

If you have a GTX 580 you cannot do eyefinity as that is AMD's proprietary multi monitor setup...

 

[maybeshewill]

So I ended up getting the EVGA Superclocked GTX 570, very happy with the results. Playing 64 player maps on ultra with 2X MSAA and didn't notice frame rate lag.

 

[Silverforce11]

Nice, got fraps or MSI afterburner for the fps counters?

 

[cmdrdredd]

If you have Crysis 2 you should test that with the DX11 and high rez texture pack. It actually looks better than BF3 in my opinion and totally crushes my video card lol. I mean below 30fps crushing.

That makes me want to go with a multi GPU setup more than BF3 does. I finally got around to playing it with the DX11 patch etc and I was surprised at how good it looks, but also how much GPU it needs.

 

[maybeshewill]

Nice, got fraps or MSI afterburner for the fps counters?

I haven't tried that yet no, I'll give it a shot

 

[ArchAngel777]

If you have Crysis 2 you should test that with the DX11 and high rez texture pack. It actually looks better than BF3 in my opinion and totally crushes my video card lol. I mean below 30fps crushing.

That makes me want to go with a multi GPU setup more than BF3 does. I finally got around to playing it with the DX11 patch etc and I was surprised at how good it looks, but also how much GPU it needs.

Crysis 2 DX11 + High Res is awesome. When I turned it on initially, I only had my single GTX 460 1GB, then I added another one about a week ago and is now butter smooth. 1680x1050, 4X MSAA, 4X Trans SSAA. The bloom is a bit overdone, but other than that, Crysis 2 is a great looking game. IMO better than BF3. Although BF3 looks a bit more realistic in some areas. That is art deisgn though, not the engine capabilities.