Quote Originally Posted by Lokinhow View Post
some guys are talking about GPU limited gaming at 1920x1080. But look at this

http://media.bestofmicro.com/5/Q/274...010%201920.png

and this:

http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph4310/37380.png
(this one is 1680x1050, but high settings too)

On those games the nehalem smashes the K10s, the difference is huge even on high resolutions and high details. On Civ5 the Core i7 980x is almost two time faster than the 1100T. And those slides says that the FX8150 is able to match 980X on those games. it's clearly a HUGE step forward, and a doubt a Phenom II X8 @ 32nm could do that.
I don't know about F1, but I do know about CIV5, that it has something to do with the drivers, and or AMD cpus, as company who created the Civ5(firaxis?) said it can use all the cores you can give them, and game engine does just that with nvidia hardware, but somehow only uses 1 core of AMD cpu when amd gpu is used.
You can see from every AMD Catalyst release that CIV5 is mentioned, and we all know that none of the IT websites come back to retest their systems when new drivers come out, unless something major is announced. I haven't played that game with 11.8 drivers, but even with few previous drivers CIV5 was still somehow limited on AMD hardware. Maybe they have a fix with newest drivers, who knows