When it comes to performance, my gtx 460 se is pretty good being that it's last gen's mid range.
Though it does not have enough shaders for maxed physx on mafia2 for full frame rate 100% of the time.
The expansion pack, joe's adventure, there's a mission where you have to trash a bar full of irish.
Trashing that bar bogs the living shiz out of card, brings it to a stand still.
The benchmark in that game is somewhat simuler but it doesn't drop to a stand still or anything when physx is maxxed out.
A normal 460 1gig might be enough to pull it off, or perhaps a 480.
This new gen is way better of course I'm sure.
Shame how much these cards always are.
$500, now $600 for launch cost.
I got my 460 se for under $120.
Brand new from newegg.
The Guy from ebay sold it to me for that much and baught it from newegg, had it shipped to me.
No idea how he got it that cheap, since I was keeping a close eye on the promo's and everything.
Has just enough texture units to pull off some 4x res stuff in pcsx2 in all the games I've tried so far.
I remember when top of the line wasn't enough.
Now it's more then enough.
Very nice to see more cards with over 1.5gigs.
3gigs, heck ya..., the more the better even if I can't use a gig or so of it.
Edit:
This 580 3gig is probably the card you want the next gen games.
Might be a little low on shaders by then, who knows, but it should have at least close to the amount of mem it'll need for max details on those most demanding games.
Somewhat future proof for a little while probably.
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Originally Posted by [XC] hipno650
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