[H]ard|OCP has taken the guesswork out of GPU performance on the current version of Witcher 3 in this round up featuring 10 GPUs, five from each company. Of course only NVIDIA supports lips occluded by PhysX powered mustachios but not everyone is obsessed with perfect hair. Indeed when it takes a $1000 video card just to enable the lowest options on HairWorks at 1440p without disabling every other feature one wonders why HairWorks had gamers tied up in knots. Check out the full review for performance comparisons and even some HairWorks nitpicking.
This weekend also marks the 11th Fragging Frogs VLAN party, which kicks off on Saturday August 29 10:00 AM ET and will go until the last frog has been fragged. Sign up in this thread if you haven't already and if you are new to the Fragging Frogs follow the links to the FAQ threads for information on which patches or mods you will need to apply to your games to get playing as soon as possible.
"We take The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, using the 1.08.2 patch and latest drivers, find the highest playable settings and examine apples-to-apples performance with and without GameWorks across 10 video cards. We put a focus on NVIDIA HairWorks and how it impacts performance and find out which video cards provide the best gaming value."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- 14-Way AMD vs. NVIDIA Linux Gaming Performance For DiRT Showdown @ Phoronix
- Super Useful Skyrim Script Extender Now On Steam @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- The RPG Scrollbars: The Long Night Of Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines (With Clan Quests) @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Customers start to receive Nvidia SHIELD tablet replacements @ HEXUS
- Warm Up The Cerebral Bore: Turok 1&2 Being Revamped @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- YouTube Gaming site and app to launch later today @ HEXUS
- Windows 10 Won’t Run Games Using SafeDisc Or Securom DRM @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Do Corpses Make Darkest Dungeon Too Difficult? @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
has anyone done the
has anyone done the performance hit between tressfx and hairworks?
never mind just finished
never mind just finished hardocp article, and it was great. oh tressfx > hairworks
not that simple dude. t > h?
not that simple dude. t > h? yeah in performance, but that’s because in quality t < h. and that's old vs new in today hw until new tr is out. they implement different rendering technique anyway, but with the same real world physics. comparing hairwork (the new hairfx) should be made with tressfx 3.0 'cause Lara's 2013 tressfx 2.0 is visually unimpressive against Geralt's. what's the diff with h? collision against armor, clumpy when wet, weight (on diff monsters), aa and tesselation (this is h's technique) for every strand.
woooh easy their they said it
woooh easy their they said it was better not me,they even said it was less of a performance hog and it looked better not in those words but just go to their last page in their review
what i find funny is they say
what i find funny is they say between the 970 (a card known for great overclocking) and 390 (a card known for not overclocking at all) to just go for the card that has the better overclock. Is there any reason they believe a 970 and 390 have the same overclocking potential. If thats the advice they want to give than just be honest and point out a 970 is going to overclock way better than any 390 ever could.
Overclocking gpu’s pfft, Then
Overclocking gpu’s pfft, Then spend all your time cursing and moaning at the game thinking it needs patches, When in reality some of those artifacts are from the overclock itself!
Buy the best one you can afford or add a second one, buying a lower model to overclock is just asking for future problems if you are a noob!
I wish they would stop
I wish they would stop reviewing videocards that way. Benchmarking different cards with different settings because they feel they are the maximum playable setting, makes it hard to compare cards.