ATI versus NVidia

[Mustang]

The point is ...

Video card with 2 GB of Ram.

Win 7 64b Sp1 and 4 GB of Pc ram its OK.. or maybe 6 to make Ramdrive disk

[sfmadmax]

Originally Posted by Mustang

The point is ...

Video card with 2 GB of Ram.

Win 7 64b Sp1 and 4 GB of Pc ram its OK.. or maybe 6 to make Ramdrive disk

Not really a good point. lets wait at least a month's worth of patching then see how the game performs.

The real point is, I can play rise of flight with medium graphics and have silk smooth gameplay over land. with my Nvidia GTS 8800 512MB. I can't go no where near that with ClOd.. I do agree I need a way better graphics card. But I don't buy the idea "your gfx card needs 2GB of vram to play this game"

[Hellman]

Not to mention, the 4870 is a dual core 2gb card. So that kinda doesn't help

[sfmadmax]

Originally Posted by Hellman

Not to mention, the 4870 is a dual core 2gb card. So that kinda doesn't help

Exactly, Each core == 1GB VRam ,

[IbnSolmyr]

Originally Posted by Hellman

Not to mention, the 4870 is a dual core 2gb card. So that kinda doesn't help

Some HD 4870 2Go are just one core. Mine is. There is a difference between the 4870 X2 (2x1Go, for 2 cores) and the 4870 2Go (1 core).

[RocketDog]

I started CloD with an Nvidia GTX 285 (1GB VRAM) and then swapped to a 2GB AMD 6970 card. Obviously, the Nvidia card was slower (although after the second patch it was actually very playable). I don't remember seeing any graphics problems with the Nvidia card but there are a number with the 6970 (blue lines on the horizon and occasional black lines on the terrain). Not show stoppers, but annoying still the same.

I guess they developed the game on Nvidia cards.

[sfmadmax]

Originally Posted by RocketDog

I started CloD with an Nvidia GTX 285 (1GB VRAM) and then swapped to a 2GB AMD 6970 card. Obviously, the Nvidia card was slower (although after the second patch it was actually very playable). I don't remember seeing any graphics problems with the Nvidia card but there are a number with the 6970 (blue lines on the horizon and occasional black lines on the terrain). Not show stoppers, but annoying still the same.

I guess they developed the game on Nvidia cards.

I agree they are annyoing , however I like my 6970. It's my first ati card in a long time. So im pretty happy with it. Give it time , the kinks will be worked out!

[RocketDog]

Yeah - the ATi bugs are very obvious and everyone has them so I guess they will get fixed soon. The performance in terms of frame rate is very good. I have to say that the 6970 is great in RoF as well.

[Thee_oddball]

clean your glass's and get a cup of coffee
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[matsher]

If its any help, I've been doing much reading about the best regarded cards and the
variances in performance. Looking at the same cards you've been looking at and the
vs shootout test on different games.

The ATI 6950 is looking to be "the" card of the current generation, its far less money than the 6970 with almost the same performance stats across the board. Literally not more than 3-5 frames difference at extreme settings and highest resolutions.

If run in SLI the 2gb 6950 will outperform the brand new Nvid 590 4gb and ATI 6990 4gb.
Apparently the new deul core cards 590 / 6990 cannot fully access the 4gb onboard ram where in SLI the 6950's can... Worth considering, especially when you can get 2 x 2gb 6950's for far less than the price of 1x 6990 or 590.

read this little article about the top 15 GPUs - especially the 6950...

http://www.gadgetstech.co.uk/2011/04...e-world-today/

Hope this helps...