WoW benchmarks with GTX 480?

[TonyB]

Looking all over, couldn't find any benchmarks for WoW. Anyone know which site still benchmarks this? 11.5 million subscribers are in the dark !

 

[toyota]

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,...Fermi-performance-benchmarks/Reviews/?page=15

they do kick ATIs butt pretty good in WoW

 

[Blue Shift]

Looking all over, couldn't find any benchmarks for WoW. Anyone know which site still benchmarks this? 11.5 million subscribers are in the dark !

My sarcasm detector is currently sounding a siren, and Trolldar is picking up numerous incoming pings!

 

[vj8usa]

It's surprising how slow this game runs on such powerful hardware. I seem to remember it being playable on IGPs at some point in time. Is it only the expansions that make it so demanding?

My sarcasm detector is currently sounding a siren, and Trolldar is picking up numerous incoming pings!

It was a legitimate request for benchmarks for a popular game. There's no need to be a dick about it.

 

[Udgnim]

the one thing I find interesting about Fermi is certain games really really like it

it's definitely a power hog, noisy, and in several games not that much better than a 5870, but when a game runs well with Fermi, it doesn't hold back

 

[smackababy]

The only problem with that benchmark of WoW, is that the game is not demanding while flying. I'd love to see, but it remains nearly impossible, to get a benchmark while raiding.

 

[toyota]

the one thing I find interesting about Fermi is certain games really really like it

it's definitely a power hog, noisy, and in several games not that much better than a 5870, but when a game runs well with Fermi, it doesn't hold back

the 480 looks pretty good in Call of Pripyat, Metro 2033, and Far Cry 2 in the firingsquad review.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Repeat after me:

WoW is a CPU-intensive game, even more with those third-party plugins.

 

[toyota]

Repeat after me:

WoW is a CPU-intensive game, even more with those third-party plugins.

well maybe so but its clear that a fast video card makes a massive differnce if you already have a good cpu. the gtx480 is getting nearly THREE times the performance of an 8800gtx even at 1680.

 

[thedosbox]

well maybe so but its clear that a fast video card makes a massive differnce if you already have a good cpu. the gtx480 is getting nearly THREE times the performance of an 8800gtx even at 1680.

Well, the 8800GTX is over three years old - the 480 had better be significantly faster.

Though it is a good reminder about the dubious value proposition of buying the fastest card available for "future proofing".

 

[TonyB]

Repeat after me:

WoW is a CPU-intensive game....

the benchmarks that were posted says otherwise.

 

[Lonyo]

the benchmarks that were posted says otherwise.

... on a 4GHz i7

Now OK, some people buying a GTX480 might be running an i7 at 4GHz, but if you aren't, you are going to see less of a difference between the various cards.

 

[NoQuarter]

According to all the benches WoW requires both CPU and GPU power, it scales off both and fairly consistently. It's much more graphic intensive than it was when it came out in '04.

 

[Zap]

Expecting to get high framerates in Dalaran or when raiding is like expecting high framerates in Crysis.

(and no, I don't know nuthin')

 

[Anubis]

Repeat after me:

WoW is a CPU-intensive game, even more with those third-party plugins.

yea IDK why people never listen to me when i tell them this

CPU and Ram will give you a larger improvement in WoW then a new video Card
going from a 8800GT to a GTX 285 OC gave me an average of 10 more FPS running on a c2D E8400 2 4GHz w/ 4gs of ram

running the same gTX 285 and going from the C2D to a I7 920 running at 4GHz was a 50-60 FPS improvement

 

[Udgnim]

the benchmarks that were posted says otherwise.

the issue with WoW benchmarks is that WoW's benchmark tool is only available via flight paths and the most strenuous situations in WoW are in Dalaran and while raiding

so, the benchmark numbers aren't very representative of areas of importance

 

[NoQuarter]

yea IDK why people never listen to me when i tell them this

CPU and Ram will give you a larger improvement in WoW then a new video Card
going from a 8800GT to a GTX 285 OC gave me an average of 10 more FPS running on a c2D E8400 2 4GHz w/ 4gs of ram

running the same gTX 285 and going from the C2D to a I7 920 running at 4GHz was a 50-60 FPS improvement

But going from a E8400 to a i7-920 on a 8800GT would only give you 10 FPS also. It takes both to get that 50-60 fps boost.

 

[Anubis]

But going from a E8400 to a i7-920 on a 8800GT would only give you 10 FPS also. It takes both to get that 50-60 fps boost.

actually no, i tested that as well, its nearly all the CPU

 

[Natocomander]

Just Thought i would say i have played wow for many years and finally after having so many issues in 25man raids runing a amd 4800x2 and 9800gtx+ (at full hd resolution) I went and bought a whole new system to play properly. I now have a gigabyte x58A-Ud7 runing a i7 930 (at 3.15ghz) with 12 gb mem and win7 64bit os. With the 9800gtx+ (everything max bar shadows is one step down from max) i was getting 50-60fps depending on how busy the area was. Then in the burning crusade area it was around 60fps flying around but kinda glitchy and not smooth, and that was with it being very quiet. That problem only got worse in northrend, and in dalaran and 25man raids i was getting anywhere from 10-35fps. Then i Bought a gtx480, at first i was crashing a lot (every 5-10) min, then blizzard fixed somthing and my god this card makes this game smooth in northrend flying around. Never again do i ever get a stutter, in dal i get 50-60fps but if its really busy its around 45fps. Oc'n the cpu more improves this so its still cpu bound in dal. as for 25 man raids. i get 60fps for the most part, it drops to around 45 when everone starts attacking a boss and all the spells are just going crazy. And i have the normal addons running like
DBM-RECOUNT-GATHERER-AUTOTRACK
End result, If you want to see all the spells happening in a 25man raid and not lag, (no not net lag lol) you need both a wicked cpu and gpu to do the job. Personally i think this games graphics look wicked at max when doing a raid, but people still bag it. they must not raid. The gtx 480 does a wicked job with all its anti aliasing power and just as a note, in the right case and right power supply the 480 runs at 70 degress and i cant even hear it (whole sys power at wall is 190watts while raiding)

 

[soccerballtux]

It's surprising how slow this game runs on such powerful hardware. I seem to remember it being playable on IGPs at some point in time. Is it only the expansions that make it so demanding?

No, just poor coding/optimization on an old engine.

 

[Voo]

the benchmarks that were posted says otherwise.

The benchmark uses a flight scene, which is the best case scenario for the CPU (not much to do) - absolutely not comparable to a raid scene.. though you can't really benchmark a raid so you're stuck with something like that.

 

[tweakboy]

What is WOW benchmarks ?

 

[smackababy]

The benchmark uses a flight scene, which is the best case scenario for the CPU (not much to do) - absolutely not comparable to a raid scene.. though you can't really benchmark a raid so you're stuck with something like that.

And even more so than just raiding, what addons you're running and how "optimized" your UI is has a big effect as well. Scrolling numbers, the amount of npcs, and many other factors.