The official Fermi benchmark thread

[Perfectionist]

Nah, I spent about that on mine, and matty is right. Watch the occasional blu-ray on it too.

[sadbuttrue]

When you're splashing £300 - £400 on a graphics card you're gonna want to be playing at at-least 1080p with a decent helping of AA.

Hardcore FPS gamers require such a beast for a different reason, PC input lag. Your monitor may already have 30ms of input lag, but the fps you get will determine how much extra is being added by the PC.

Vsync off:
30fps = ~45ms input lag
60fps = ~20ms input lag
120fps = ~10ms input lag
240fps = ~4ms input lag
and so on. These figures are based on using a fast cpu taking 2ms to prepare each frame. ((1000 / fps) - cpu frame time) * 1.5.

I'm disappointed that so few reviewers cater to us. It would be nice if they bothered to test cards at medium to low settings with minimal or no aa/af using 1920/1680 resolutions.

[DanceswithUnix]

Hmm, interesting.

I found in my 6600GT days that playing DooM 3 at 800x600 the AA settings really mattered.

These days, my 2048x1152 pixels are rather small so I turn the AA right down or off.

Do you think the other half would accept this as an argument that I *must* have a new graphics card to see what I am missing out on?

[kalniel]

Hardcore FPS gamers require such a beast for a different reason, PC input lag. Your monitor may already have 30ms of input lag, but the fps you get will determine how much extra is being added by the PC.

Vsync off:
30fps = ~45ms input lag
60fps = ~20ms input lag
120fps = ~10ms input lag
240fps = ~4ms input lag
and so on. These figures are based on using a fast cpu taking 2ms to prepare each frame. ((1000 / fps) - cpu frame time) * 1.5.

And a single core processor/graphics driver. Which is a bit of an assumption these days...

[DanceswithUnix]

And a single core processor/graphics driver. Which is a bit of an assumption these days...

Don't see how that follows.

Here is a description of why triple buffering is the best way to output video:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3591&p=3

and that all seems to make sense. Even if you can only display 60fps, drawing more helps and whether they are draw using one, two or as I noticed in my last WoW crash dump 25 threads should come out in the wash.

[kalniel]

Don't see how that follows.

Here is a description of why triple buffering is the best way to output video:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3591&p=3

and that all seems to make sense. Even if you can only display 60fps, drawing more helps and whether they are draw using one, two or as I noticed in my last WoW crash dump 25 threads should come out in the wash.

I think I'm getting confused with terms

[scaryjim]

Then again, I defy anyone to actually notice a 45ms display lag...

[jim]

Then again, I defy anyone to actually notice a 45ms display lag...

Notice?

It's the sole reason I suck at online FPS games.

The above may not be true

[scaryjim]

It's the sole reason I suck at online FPS games.

Oooh, have I just found a new excuse?

"Of course you beat me at Starcraft, my monitor has a longer display latency than yours"

yes, I know Starcraft isn't an fps, but it is the game I am most likely to play competitively against my better half!

[MadduckUK]

Oooh, have I just found a new excuse?

latency is always the excuse, its just a new take on it

[jim]

"Of course you beat me at Starcraft, my monitor has a longer display latency than yours"

Hmmm, that would be a bit like finishing fourth in a stock car race and saying "Of course I didn't win the race, I forgot to go to the loo beforehand and the power to weight ratio was negatively impacted."

You never know though, it might work

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Notice?

It's the sole reason I suck at online FPS games.

The above may not be true

Or could be the sodding campers who snipe at you at the respawn points.

[jim]

Or could be the sodding campers who snipe at you at the respawn points.

In BF2 it was the *illegitimate child* in the helicopter gunship on the minigun that used to drive me to insanity at respawn points. You'd be stuck there, last spawn point on the map, and they'd just hover around the edge waiting for everyone to spawn and get slaughtered. Then I'd sneak around, pull off two miraculous hits on the heli with my anti-tank launcher, only to find that nobody else wanted to help me and proceeded to get my head blown off.

*Breathes slowly*

[Perfectionist]

So what you think of this?
http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-net/18...gtx-480-a.html
will be interesting to see if hexus remains impartial and doesn't fall for what other reviewers usually seem to do which is use the "optimised" games with manufacturer branding, where the devs have been paid to make sure that the other competing cards don't perform well..

[kalniel]

From the review, the Hexus benchies are for the most part very good choices. The only possible concession to nVidia is doing the majority of the Dirt 2 tests in dx9 rather than dx11. They do one dx11 max res + bells + whistles bench for it though.

There's a nice bang4watt score as well

[vian_siu]

i cant believe how much nvidia has let us down, but i am pretty they got some sort of refresh that can keep them in the game and keep us happy