The Witcher III Wild Hunt VGA Performance review
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Undying
Nice review HH, like always. I was just expecting you do HW/off benchmark to compare. Its really taxing the AMD hardware. One of the articles said 290 is 77% faster with HW/off.
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
I'll have a look tomorrow, Hairworks is a NV feature and was disabled for fair comparison. This article is work in progress and I wanted the initials number out.
Basically I was waiting (hoping) on AMD for a driver ... but well.
Denial
Dorlor
Aaaand yet another benchmark that shows what all other benchmarks has shown - kepler having been seriously downgraded (intentional or accidental - im leaning towards intentional).
Some people claim its simply because Maxwell has been optimized, but if that was the case, then a gtx 980 should be MILES ahead of a 290x, and a 780 ti should still be on par with the 290x, but it isnt.
The gtx 980 is a tad ahead of the 290x as usual, while the 780 ti is waaaaay behind the 290x - the same can be seen with all the other kepler Cards, with the 780 almost performing the same as a freaking 960...
Denial
Dorlor
Denial
Dorlor
zer0_c0ol
something is very wrong with the 7 series. the 780ti should be on par with the 290x
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
Added: GTX 770 image quality settings scaling on last page.
Fox2232
I went through configs, one can change hairworks AA level. Too bad it is not possible to change tessellation level of it too. Because limiting tessellation via CCC limits it everywhere and ocean water tessellation is 8x - low; 64x - ultra.
I am working xml menu config (and settings below each settings) so low settings which not many will use will provide very reasonable performance and IQ.
Monchis
All of these architectures suck to play latest console ports, must wait for that 8800gt moral sucessor that´s gonna demolish all these cheap ports with their xboxone graphics and unoptimized shaders, probably volta or next AMD.
Btw this needs some serious frame pacing tests, it´s like they forgot to add frame smoothing or something, it´s breaking immersion for a lot of folks (even with maxwell cards).
Major Melchett
Kepler not doing as well as it should be on Nvidia, an R9 285 getting better FPS over the 7970ghz edition/R9 280x on AMD - what the heck is going on?.
Dorlor
zer0_c0ol
i have to say amd card do age better
Undying
Dorlor
bigfutus
Dorlor
go4brendon