thanks Kruppi, interesting posts!

@Editor: Unfortunately my first "prediction" is confirmed, only 2Gb VRAM seems to have become a widespread rumour :(

Time to start praying that Luthier's new graphic patch will handle VRAM more efficiently... 2,4Gb VRAM is what we need with max settings :(


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Hmm well my 5970 which only has 2GB and no crossfire seems to work okay :D... okay not with max settings but hopefully with the next patch we won't need 3Gigs of vram to run the game well lol

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Is that CUDA for OpenCL and similar things and has nothing to do with gaming? If so then what use it is to stuff a lot of them if no game uses them? The article was a bit green tinted so I will wait for actual figures when Kepler is released. But it can be a strong contender to AMD Tahiti series which is good as then the price wars begin :D

Not necessarilty. As NV cards, or more accurately the driver allows to outsource some calculations onto the CPU, this increase in fps may not be mainly due to ocing the cpu but a result of nv drivers. so, in case of nv-gpus, it would be nice to know, if that particular setting (iirc "Multithreading" or something alike) is activated or not, and best, such tests should be run with it on and off to get a conclusive result.

This is of much concern for me, as i´m planning on replacing my Q6700 (as it is already 4 years old, hence i don´t call it an upgrade :D ) and would like to know, what cpu will i really need. not just for clod, but other games as well.

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How many games really use several cores efficiently, as what I've read it is not "just like that" to program real multicore support or such. Will be interesting to see how Kepler will be and the upcoming AMD updates. Seems the GPU contest is getting very interesting :D

Well, my cpu...AMD Phenon 1100T x6 at 3.8 with win 7 64, 16 gigs of ram, and the 3 gig nvidia 580GTX SHOULD be able to easily handle particle effects, it does with no issue whatsoever in DSC A10, and shouldn't with this game as well. When frame rates come down from 60 flying to 8 upon landing kicking up dust, that tells me its not my cpu or gpu.

Thanks all for your help!

As far as CPU's, the 2500k is a great pick. It doesn't run much above 50% in CLoD but atm that's due to my out of date HD 5770 card bottlenecking it.

All these GPU stats don't mean a thing to me until I start seeing the benchmarks for games. I'll then buy the best card between AMD/Nvidia base off of price/performance.

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It will be interesting to see the game benches coming out. But again in most cases the FPS games are used to measure as they are the majority. Very few reviewers use flight sims so I guess that task is up to us to do :D

Sounds like you just volunteered! :)

I think I have one:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...-gcn,3104.html

Look at the difference between the two GPUs in terms of
Stream processors: 2048 vs 512
Texture Units: 128 vs 64
Texture Fillrate: 118.4 Gtex/s vs 49.4 Gtex/s
Memory Bandwidth: 264 GB/s vs 192.4 GB/s

Except for the Memory Bandwith, the 7970is more than 100% percent powerfull than the 580GTX.



I admit, I started showing signs of weakness....I was holding one 7970 in my hands today... :(


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