Welcome to the land of Big VCards Flanker.

I ran the Spit vs 110 track. so you have a compare. Vsync on i get .
maximum 68fps (spikes) minimum 60fps, average 60FPS!

Vsync off avg FPS 89 Max 118

My nvidia settings all standard except I set me pre rendered frames to 8

No real point in comparing FPS. The game is so unoptimized over land it's just a mess. It should easily pull 100fps on full detail over land without any stuttering.

Hi Priller,
Why do you say it does not take an FPS hit?

From what I saw in the posts I read, Flanker said it does.


~S~

By the way, I do not hear good news about the next NV generation :(
I hear about 2Gb VRAM (only) and special code delivered by NV in order to be added to the game code in order to achieve vastly superior performance = re-translated: No special graphics code written, graphics performance will be unimpressive :(

S!

Indeed not good news for nVidia :( I hoped there would be a nice competetive card from them, but this "add a code only for NV card to make an application to work fast" sounds VERY bad. Adds more discrenpancy to gaming etc. when special codes are needed. On the other hands shows that AMD's long term planning is paying off now, they have very good lineup and a solid product to upgrade later on.

And yes I take a hit in FPS with dust but not so much as with the 6970HD. Actually now my gaming is VERY smooth, only occasional hiccups when something is loaded. But otherwise very nice :) Drivers to mature and new patch = good times!

source? Nvidia isn't releasing much data on their new cards at all! We just have to sit back and wait for real news/release time.

Source: some people who are running the benchmarks ;)

I think all the dust particles , bullets , explosions ect are mainly to do with the CPU. I upgraded a few days ago to a 2500k from a E7400 and now all the micro stutters when in combat have just about all gone. The rest comes down to bad coding in the game itself.

If the engineers at Nvidia see any advantage to adding a larger frame buffer, Kepler well have a larger frame buffer. Ram is pretty cheap.
Some of the same sites that have the leaks specs also say its at least 45% faster, we won't no the truth until actual cards get out in the wild.

S!

As r0bc said, when we get the actual tests we will know. Until then it is only wild speculation and marketing hype :) But nevertheless interesting to see how Kepler will do. One thing is sure though, it will be premium priced some 100-200€ over 7970HD as always with nVidia.

More Kepler info... time will tell.

http://www.3dcenter.org/news/die-akt...rformance-chip

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news...-leak-out.aspx

Not sure I believe the prices ;)