Tech Report: Ultra-high-resolution Gaming ...

Good article. I get the feeling that when I get a new VC I won't have to worry about stuttering below 30fps for a very, very, very long time.
 
Why the hell do we need such absurd resolutions?
Games look damn nice at 1280 with 2 or 4x FSAA.
But people use 1600 with 6xFSAA because CPUs are the bottleneck anyway...
 
Because 1920 1200 monitor cost only the price of a top graphic card instead of the price of 3 like some years ago.
 
RejZoR said:
Why the hell do we need such absurd resolutions?
Games look damn nice at 1280 with 2 or 4x FSAA.
But people use 1600 with 6xFSAA because CPUs are the bottleneck anyway...
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Because it just looks better on 1600x1200 than on 1024x768..

I do it because I can..
 
RejZoR said:
Why the hell do we need such absurd resolutions?
Games look damn nice at 1280 with 2 or 4x FSAA.
But people use 1600 with 6xFSAA because CPUs are the bottleneck anyway...
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Absurd resolutions? Well, I guess that a few years back even 1280x1024 was called an absurd resolution to play at by many ;)
 
I've been running this 1600x1200x85Hz monitor since 1998.

I sure wish I could have had a card that would let me play games at that resolution the whole time I've owned this monitor...

Jawed
 
Jawed said:
I've been running this 1600x1200x85Hz monitor since 1998.

I sure wish I could have had a card that would let me play games at that resolution the whole time I've owned this monitor...

Jawed
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Alas, mine is 16x12 at 72Hz. And 72 just doesn't cut it for me. I prefer 100, but can live with 85.
 
I bought a cheap monitor that could do 2048x1536 5 years ago. At that point almost all of my gaming friends had monitors that could do that res for several years already! I bought the monitor together with a gforce GTS 64MB that was powerful enough at the time to play many games at that res, only problem was, very few games let me select that res. Later the support for it improved, but by that point my gf2 was no longer good enough to run any new games at 2048x1536 :(

For those who have never tried gaming at that res, you owe it to yourself to try, it's amazing how good it looks, even without AA and just low levels of AF.
 
I find it more interesting that the X850 keeps up with the 6800U SLI and even beats it in the lower resolutions. ;)

"X850 BEATS 6800ULTRA SLI!" :rolleyes: ;) But it's true...in some cases. :LOL:
 
Alstrong said:
I find it more interesting that the X850 keeps up with the 6800U SLI and even beats it in the lower resolutions. ;)

"X850 BEATS 6800ULTRA SLI!" :rolleyes: ;) But it's true...in some cases. :LOL:
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An ATi card beats 2 nv cards in an ATI game. Not interesting.
NV card beats ATi flagship in an ATI game with double the numbers. Interesting at least.
 
HaLDoL said:
Alstrong said:
I find it more interesting that the X850 keeps up with the 6800U SLI and even beats it in the lower resolutions. ;)

"X850 BEATS 6800ULTRA SLI!" :rolleyes: ;) But it's true...in some cases. :LOL:
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An ATi card beats 2 nv cards in an ATI game. Not interesting.
NV card beats ATi flagship in an ATI game with double the numbers. Interesting at least.
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So basically its only interesting when nVidia wins.
 
HaLDoL said:
NV card beats ATi flagship in an ATI game with double the numbers. Interesting at least.
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Yes, saying that NV's new generation GPU is faster than ati's last generation GPU really puts you high on the IQ list.

(note the way you subtly left out "flagship" after NV as well to suggest that this is mainstream performance.)
 
hello Mr green.

You did read the bit about the buffer size difference between the G70 and the other cards right?

The difference in High resoliution gaming in Hl2 has zip to to with the majority of the architecture and most everything to do with the G70 being properly equipped for running at that resolution.

Why make a ridiculously stupid fanboiz comment about 2x the performance at the highest resolution when the hard data on why it was going to happen was given before you read the first chart of numbers?

Nvnews must be getting boring these days eh? :rolleyes:
 
HaLDoL said:
Interesting that a single 7800GTX is twice at fast as a X850XT PE in half life 2 at the highest resolution.

http://www.techreport.com/etc/2005q3/hires-gaming/hl2-town.gif
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Are you deliberately trying to derail this thread?

Did you not read the whole bit about the Z buffer? The reason for this massive difference between the NV card ant the ATi card is well explained, thus meaning due to the lack of mystery surrounding it, it's not particularry interesting.

Whats more interesting is what this means for benchmarking using ultra high resolutions i.e., it's a bit pointless untill there is another card on the market that fully supports them.
 
Ragemare said:
HaLDoL said:
Interesting that a single 7800GTX is twice at fast as a X850XT PE in half life 2 at the highest resolution.

http://www.techreport.com/etc/2005q3/hires-gaming/hl2-town.gif
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Are you deliberately trying to derail this thread?

Did you not read the whole bit about the Z buffer? The reason for this massive difference between the NV card ant the ATi card is well explained, thus meaning due to the lack of mystery surrounding it, it's not particularry interesting.

Whats more interesting is what this means for benchmarking using ultra high resolutions i.e., it's a bit pointless untill there is another card on the market that fully supports them.
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Now not really. Benchmarking at high resolutions is good to show people what you *could* ge gaming at with a GTX and a nice monitor.
 
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