[Tom's Hardware]Battlefield 1 DX12 + FX 8320, BIG surprise.

[tamz_msc]

Original article here.

Mainstream PC: FX-8320, 16GB DDR3

Results:

NVIDIA:

AMD:

Crazy stuff!

 

[Stuka87]

Slower CPU's always benefit the most from DX12. Very fast CPUs show almost no difference.

 

[Bacon1]

Wow the 460 competing with the 1050 Ti. Amazing how different the gpu scaling is so different with low end CPUs.

 

[tamz_msc]

What happened to the older NVIDIA cards with 2GB VRAM? A HD 7790 beating a GTX 770?

 

[Flapdrol1337]

Best switch back to dx11 if you're running a 2GB nvidia card.

 

[richierich1212]

Gotta fire up BF1 tonight and see how my R9 285 + 4790K runs.

 

[Leyawiin]

What's nice to see is that my FX-8320E @ 4.4 Ghz on a 60hz monitor isn't totally worthless when paired with a GTX 1060. While I have to turn down a few settings compared to my i7-4790k PC using the same GPU, image quality is still in the same ballpark.

 

[Gikaseixas]

Trend is to match Nvidia and Intel these days

Good to know that my HD 7970 & FX 8350 combo is still decent for 1080p gaming

 

[IllogicalGlory]

I wish they would have tested DX11 too. It looks like the DX12 implementation has improved a lot since launch, and it'd be interesting to see a new comparison.

 

[SgtMagusUSMC]

Hmm I wonder what my i7-6800K at stock with a GTX 780 would do with 3Gb vRAM. About to get a GTX 1080TI in the mail any day now so that should be well sufficient to get 60 Hz at 4K...I think. 32Gb 3k C15 RAM, m.2 OS and SSD for Games. MSI MPower MB and watercooled CPU and will watercool the GPU as well and overclock both to 4.0Ghz and idk 1800mhz respectively.


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[tamz_msc]

Hmm I wonder what my i7-6800K at stock with a GTX 780 would do with 3Gb vRAM. About to get a GTX 1080TI in the mail any day now so that should be well sufficient to get 60 Hz at 4K...I think. 32Gb 3k C15 RAM, m.2 OS and SSD for Games. MSI MPower MB and watercooled CPU and will watercool the GPU as well and overclock both to 4.0Ghz and idk 1800mhz respectively.


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A GTX 780 would not have fared well; results with a 6700K:

 

[SgtMagusUSMC]

A GTX 780 would not have fared well; results with a 6700K:

Surprising. Idk why but the 700 series was pretty solid for 1080p especially @60hz. I was going to buy the 980 but didn't and decided to see what NVIDIA would do with their 1000 series with AMD coming out with their new Polaris GPU's with HMB. I am happy I waited bc the 1080 was too expensive and didnt expect that and the new Titan X(p) made me think ok the 1080TI should kick some ass and for all the stats it looks like it will. Definitely not worth buying a Titan X either the first or second Pascal versions when I can SLI two 1080TI's and destroy it on 4K especially with the high vandwidth they come with and the huge amount of GDDR5X vRAM. Looking forward to seeing what one can do on my UHDTV w HDR. I also have the Shield TV so might even just add my games to the GeForce Experience and see how that works out. I am still somewhat on the fence because as I have read I can have NVIDIA process my games graphics online so idk if it is ever worth it to keep buying GPU's since its only for gaming. I do have a faster internet than most people I know (50Gbps) Verizon FiOS fiber optic. Considering paying an extra $10 a month to get 75 and 100 is only $20 more. PC and Shield TV is wired and only use wireless for cell phones and tablets but still have a $300 router that puts out a solid signal and AC speeds but only my phone is an AC capable anyway. Wish my iPad did hut I got the iPad mini 3 which was the one between the one with the retina display that had the fingerprint sensor and in Gold with 64Gb but then they dropped the iPad mini 4 a few minths later with AC wireless. I was pissed. Bc I got the one with Crllular so it was a $629 tablet and got screwed on the AC capability. But what can ya do? I guess I will just upgrade to the newest one when I can grab an Apple refurb and gift mine to the wife who is using a job name Android tab. Used to use Windows Phones before switching to the iPhone SE which is awesome for anyone considering an iPhone on the cheap. Now I am very off topic. Sorry for the rant. Thats my thing.


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[tamz_msc]

Surprising. Idk why but the 700 series was pretty solid for 1080p especially @60hz. I was going to buy the 980 but didn't and decided to see what NVIDIA would do with their 1000 series with AMD coming out with their new Polaris GPU's with HMB. I am happy I waited bc the 1080 was too expensive and didnt expect that and the new Titan X(p) made me think ok the 1080TI should kick some ass and for all the stats it looks like it will.

You did the right thing by not buying the 1080 at launch price. The 1080Ti is the better buy, as shown by the GTX 980Ti vs GTX 980.

 

[SgtMagusUSMC]

You did the right thing by not buying the 1080 at launch price. The 1080Ti is the better buy, as shown by the GTX 980Ti vs GTX 980.

Yeah I am definitely happy I didn't buy either the 980 or 1080. I knew with Pascal they would come out with a new Titan so I also knew a X80ti was on the way with its usual 55% price difference and 110% gaming performance delta. From now on I will only be buying 80TI's. I messed around with lower end cards like the one I started off with, a GTX650TI Boost which was great paired to my i3-2120 and gave solid numbers on my 1200p monitor. Then stepped up to a i7-3770K at 4.2Ghz and SLI GTX 780's which also gave me great performance. So when I planned my new build on the X99A platform I knew with the Broadwell-E that it would be a lot better clock for clock than the 3770K so 4.0Ghz target seemed to make sense adding two more cores and fpur more threads especially since I was able to sell my 3770K for the same price on Amazon as I bought the 6800K thru MicroCenter. Tried selling both 780's on Amazon but only sold one so I held off and time passed and before I knew it the 1070/1080 dropped but was at least $100 more than I expected. Considered going with the 1070, maybe SLI in the future but very happy I waited it out and grabbed such a monster of a card, OC-able to a huge degree with so much VRAM that I don't have to worry about my 4K display bot having enough detail power and capability. So what is the conclussion really that DX12 is really not that CPU demanding and it all comes down to the newer GPU's beating older ones? Its funny ya know bc a couple years ago everyone on earth was saying you will never need more than an i5 and games wont ever need more than a core or two which was true at the time when my i3 was doing great (3.3ghz). Fast forward a couple years and everything is recommending at least an i7 or 8-core AMD. Glad I got the 6C/12T Intel when I did. They never lose value and on this platform I think it will take a very long time before I need to think abourt replacing my CPU/GPU/RAM or anything else short of possibly SLI to smash that UHD into max everything. Still an Intel/NVIDIA guy, probably for life, just wish they had as many cheap G-Sync monitor options as they do Free-Sync. Would have loved to have grabbed myself a 21:9 ultra widescreen 3440x1440 display and max it out but really am not going to pay over a $1,000 to do so. $500 yes but twice that, nah. Rather just play on the TV or 1200p monitor at 60hz with everything maxed than cough up that much money. I wonder now what cards will be best for cryptocurrency mining. I know everyone I talk to was using 4-8 RX480's to mine Etherium.


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