GTX 580 vs. ATI 6970?

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Originally Posted by Hellman

Sure.

Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.83ghz, 300gb 10,000rpm hd, plus another 1TB hd, Palit Nvidia GTX 580 3gb, 28" Viewsonic 1900 x 1200 res, 8gb DDR3 ram, Gigabyte X48T-DQ6 motherboard.

Vids? Can we have some flying over london since buildings seem to be the big issue interms of memory allocation.

@above poster - I think its worth noting that Creative Assembly is holding off the DX11 portion of the engine for Shogunt 2 total war, because of a problem with AMD/ATI dx11 card drivers. It runs fine on Nvidia, but problematic on ATI and the initial release date for the dx11 patch was 2-4 weeks after the games release. At the same time ATI had a very similar date for their driver update which specified Shogun2 in its notes. As of two days ago it has been a month but the ATI drivers have been delayed and CA comment is that they will release DX11 soon but they cannot currently comment on why there is a delay.

=ATI current gen high end cards on dx11 (and maybe even 10) are at a disadvantage, now that the 500s are out especially.