What will you use your high end 7xxx or 6xx series card for?

[scooterlibby]

For those planning on purchasing the high end range of next generation cards (7970, *7990, *680, *690 - some of these are obviously not released yet and the dual GPU variants may never be) what will you be using it for?

I started wondering about this because there is not really a game that I've played that taxes my GTX 580's at 1920x1200. The only thing that makes them sweat is Arkham City.

I ask both in terms what games or other software you think will necessitate an enthusiast level next generation card as well was what configuration might warrant using such a card (3-D, multi-monitor, etc.).

 

[nitromullet]

gaming @ 2560x1440 with as much eye candy as possible.

 

[scooterlibby]

gaming @ 2560x1440 with as much eye candy as possible.

I am not too familiar with that resolution. Is it an Apple display?

Edit: Nevermind. I see the NEC in your signature.

 

[Elfear]

Skyrim with high-res textures, Metro 2034, Crysis 2, Crysis 1, etc. at 2560x1600. A super-clocked 7970 will fit the bill nicely.

 

[Grooveriding]

2560x1600 and eyefinity resolutions.

Or someone looking to run 1 single card rather than multi-gpu. OCed 7970 is as fast as a 6990/GTX590. So you can get current top-tier SLI/Crossfire performance out of one card.

For someone sitting on two high end cards at 1920x1200 there is really no need to upgrade anymore, unless you want to move to a single-gpu and lose the multi-gpu cons.

 

[scooterlibby]

I am hoping the new Bioshock will heavily utilize DX11 and become a good benchmarking tool for the next gen cards.

 

[Piano Man]

Skyrim/WoW/SWTOR. Will hopefully pair with the Dell U2412M and have all the eyecandy cranked.

 

[RaistlinZ]

Diablo 3, Skyrim, Mass Effect 3 all at 2560x1600.

 

[lavaheadache]

For a larger e-peen ofcourse.


like others have said. Skyrim mods, 2560x1600 and higher frame rates for my 120 hz screen.

 

[Tempered81]

Gonna give a go on Darkplaces Quake 1 Engine. Takes my old favorite game (Quake) and makes it look like DOOM3! One of the guys who plays it with us has 580 SLI, and it drops him down to 40-70 fps in some parts. Heres a screenshot of the original quake and darkplaces:

 

[bunnyfubbles]

I need a ton of hardware power to drive either my 1080p120Hz BenQ XL2410T or my 1440p Dell U2711

Skyrim really hits hard, dipping as low as the 30s and 40s with my settings, BF3 can be run well enough at Ultra, but that typically means dipping into the 60s fps minimum when I'd rather have that minimum more in the 80-90 range to meet my competitive desires. Saints Row 3 and Serious Sam 3 are two other newer games that simply don't hover in the 100+fps range I almost expect them to, but instead are in the 70s and 80s, I really don't like settling for "adequate"

That being said I'm just as anxious to upgrade my 2600K to an IvyBridge as I am to upgrade my two GTX580s. On the one hand I'd love to go to 6+ cores because I live-stream and I'm sure the extra cores would help with encoding, the problem is a lot of games I play don't appear to be as efficient as others with multithreading and thus a faster IPC and overall clockrate is just as desirable. Hopefully a 3770K will be enough for the short term, otherwise IvyB-E can't get here fast enough.

 

[Majcric]

To play Crysis at 60 fps with all eyecandy, lol (Metro 2033, GTA 4, and a few others I can't think of right now.

Oh and that one game that is released this year by developers to get people to buy these new cards

 

[ckelly]

I have a 27" LED Cinema display and I need one of these cards to get as much BF3 performance/ image quality at that res.

After that, WoW, Diablo 3, and the massive backlog of Steam games I've been buying when they're on sale (Metro, Crysis, Torchlight, etc).

(first post!)

 

[Attic]

Welcome to the boards ckelly!

From OP, Good question. With so much power available in these next gen cards i'm hoping to find some good stuff to put it too good use,.. both games old and new as well as crazy amounts of details (Ultra+ levels) cranked.

I'm going to move to i5-2500k and 7970/50, ASRock Ext4G3 board mobo. I'd like to be able to use 8xAA w/ 8xTrSSAA at 1080P @60fps. The 460GTX is great for 1080P, but I'm limited to FXAA in most new releases and FXAA is good, but not great. I'm also limited to a mix of medium/high settings to maintain good fps. I'd like to be able to set ultra without having frame rate issues.

I'll look forward to Batman AC in DX11 with everything cranked and i'll enjoy a few other games where I still need to back off details with the 460GTX. I'll probably revisit GTA4 with everything maxxed,.. the Q6600@3GHZ struggled quite a bit with this one. I think shadows in this game destroyed perormance when set to high,... but the game looked very poor with no/low shadows.

I'd like to put the compute power to a interesting place, but no clue what i'll use that for at this point.

 

[BFG10K]

I’ll be using it for 2560x1600 gaming in both old and new games.

Gonna give a go on Darkplaces Quake 1 Engine. Takes my old favorite game (Quake) and makes it look like DOOM3! One of the guys who plays it with us has 580 SLI, and it drops him down to 40-70 fps in some parts. Heres a screenshot of the original quake and darkplaces:

The slowdowns are caused by nVidia’s woeful Fermi OpenGL drivers. Last time I checked, a GTX580 is slower than a GTX285 in that engine. It’s also unlikely there’s an optimal SLI profile for it.

 

[scooterlibby]

I've been looking at the Skyrim mods people have mentioned in this thread. Seems pretty intriguing. I have never been able to get into that genre, but maybe this is the one.

 

[ShadowVVL]

diablo 3, sc2 and any other good games that come out.

 

[xp0c]

Finally a worth while upgrade for my 5870.
I don't want the reference card so I'm hoping MSI will release a Twin Frozr version of the 7970 at launch, or soon after.
I just want to max out BF3 at 1080p.
Hopefully my i7 W3520 @ 4ghz won't bog it down.

 

[Kippa]

I'd use it in Lighwave if and when it suppots gpu rendering, which will probably be 12 months+ off.

 

[boxleitnerb]

Playing the latest games at (hopefully) up tp 3840x2160 / with SGSSAA. If the large Kepler rocks, I will get 3 of them. Maybe I'll go 3D, don't know yet.