ATI versus NVidia

[madFinn]

Originally Posted by phoenix1963

So if my upgrade choice is between, say, a 6950 2048MB and a 560Ti 2046MB, I'm minded for the former. I only run a 1280x1024 monitor.

56RAF_phoenix aka phoenix1963

Well, to give you some concrete numbers, I replaced my ATI HD4870 with an HD6970 today, and in the English countryside flight, using identical settings my framerate went from 19 to about 59 when flying past the cliffs of dover at very low level. This was with the resolution down to the 1280 by 7-something widescreen. Now with the 6970 I have res up to 1920 by 1080 and I've got medium-ish quality settings and I get between 35 and 40 fps over countryside, 30 doing the run past the cliffs, but still about 14 when flying through London. The responsiveness of the aircraft is much much improved, and with the few tweaks coming downstream in the next couple of weeks I have no doubt that I'll be able to play multiplayer very well.

This is all with a rig which is about 3 years old, Q6600 core2quad running at stock speed, 4 gig of ram. The only other new bit in there is a sandforce2 100GB SSD for the OS, but Steam lives on my 500GB HDD.