High end video cards
By
PumBumbler,
Posted on: 2011-03-24 13:50 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
At your resolutions, going off of the benchmarks I've seen, putting the GTX580 in dual SLI would be the best way for you to go with the way things stand currently in CoH. The GTX590 is nothing more than two seriously underclocked 580's, and at your resolution levels it really suffers from the lower amount of RAM and lower clock rates when compared to the 6990 (lol except for that whole Crossfire boondoggle).
I wish Paragon Studios and AMD/ATI would get their heads together and do something about Crossfire 
I have a 2gb ASUS Matrix waiting to be Xfired, or just simply trading up the one I have now for a 6990. I laugh every time I open up Catalyst Control Center and see an advertisement for Going Rogue. Seriously, if AMD is going to pimp this game, shouldn't their flagship "fastest gfx card in the world" actually work on said game? *rolleyes*
Hopefully some others here who are currently using a SLI setup can comment on the performance gains they've seen out of it.
Quote:
When I said dual 590s I meant a total of 4 GPUs in a 2x2 config. After reading the reviews of the 590 it looks like they had to seriously underclock them to meet the thermal and power load considerations of a single card.|
Originally Posted by _Cai_
The GTX590 is nothing more than two seriously underclocked 580's, and at your resolution levels it really suffers from the lower amount of RAM and lower clock rates when compared to the 6990 (lol except for that whole Crossfire boondoggle).
I wish Paragon Studios and AMD/ATI would get their heads together and do something about Crossfire I have a 2gb ASUS Matrix waiting to be Xfired, or just simply trading up the one I have now for a 6990. I laugh every time I open up Catalyst Control Center and see an advertisement for Going Rogue. Seriously, if AMD is going to pimp this game, shouldn't their flagship "fastest gfx card in the world" actually work on said game? *rolleyes*Hopefully some others here who are currently using a SLI setup can comment on the performance gains they've seen out of it. |
The only sense the 590 makes is to stuff your PC full of them and hope the SLI scaling makes it worth it. I'd do that if it worked well with 3x2560x1600.
There are a few grains among the chaff in the ultra-mode shopping thread, enough to make it worth checking out? I really don't know.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?p=3553707
So I think I'm going to give up hope waiting for AMD/ATi and Paragon Studios to get their act together with regards to Crossfire support.
I've got a 5970 that's half unused and has been inferior to the 5870 for this game until I overclocked/overvolted it.
I've been waiting for any type of information regarding Crossfire support and Eyefinity fixes (for camdist) but it looks like there is a typical wall of silence.
Of course the driver builds for CoH have been less than stellar from AMD since there have been crashes and most people are stuck using 10.8 Catalyst when the following builds haven't addressed any of the outstanding issues (at 11.4 preview currently).
So instead of going to a 6970, which probably doesn't get me much better performance, I'm thinking of going back to Nvidia (had a GTX280) this time. A 6990 would just be hitting myself harder over the head instead of the 5970.
About the only thing that I like more about the ATi currently is that I can get a 2GB card (per GPU) vs. the 1536MB per GPU that Nvidia is providing for anti-aliasing.
So my dilemma is should I go with a single GTX580, sli GTX570s or is it worth it to even try (dual) GTX 590 (or tri GTX580s). Not sure what SLI efficiency like is in this game at the resolutions I'm interested in. Does SLI even function in windowed mode in CoH or is it full screen only?
My target resolution is 2520x1500 4x AA and I'm looking to have all the ultra settings maxed out if possible. The box is a Core i7 2600k @4.5GHz/8GB/SSD so there's not much more to go currently to eliminate any bottlenecks with a good card.