Guild Wars 2

Greetings all.

This is for all you people looking at a GPU upgrade.

So its the 23rd and the NDA’s have ended, reviews are out and the 780 is released.
Time for every1’s jaws to drop. Take a look..more importantly ..look at the Gigabyte Windforce reveiw ..a taste of things to come with other OC’d models.
780 Price: £550 – £630 (Stock and OC’d models)
Titan price: £825+

Stock Nvidia 780:
http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/nvidia_gtx780_review/1

Gigabyte 780 Windforce:
http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/gigabyte_gtx780_windforce_review/1

Raise the flood gates people, GTX Titan owners tears are gunna cause a flood :P

As long as GW2’s one large CPU thread (i’m not talking about the many little ones) slows down the entire system i can’t get my GTX680 to 100% usage anyway, so no reason to upgrade for me (and most likely for a lot of others too).

Just wait until next week when the GTX 770 launches. My guess is its gunna be at the $500-550 mark with the already leaked specs.

I wonder how many customers nVidia will loose just because of this kittened decision… Titan with 3gb Vram and bit lesser cuda cores… Very well done nVidia…

LordPhantom.1678:

As long as GW2’s one large CPU thread (i’m not talking about the many little ones) slows down the entire system i can’t get my GTX680 to 100% usage anyway, so no reason to upgrade for me (and most likely for a lot of others too).

Actually 3 CPU “intensive” threads (taking at least 50% a core each) looking at the game in Process Explorer from SysInternals. That over 70% of the game’s load in those three threads.

I don’t play over 1080p so this card is irrelevant for me.

Nether do i. People need to stop thinking that 1080p can be maxed out on all games with ease. It cant, not wiht a single GPU atleast.

Even the 780, and the Titan, cant keep Crysis 3 at max setting at 1080 wihtout droping down to 30 fps in areas. When a single GPU card comes out that never drops below 60 fps in Crysis 3 at max settings at 1080pTHEN u can say 1080p is done and dusted.

Granted at 1440p the Titan and 780 show a more significant advantage BUT they are still the best at 1080p, and worth it if you want the performance.

The 770 and 760ti are gunna be rehashed 680’s and 670’s, they wont be running GK110 chips so performance will still be significantly less than a 780 or Titan.

Behellagh.1468:

Actually 3 CPU “intensive” threads (taking at least 50% a core each) looking at the game in Process Explorer from SysInternals. That over 70% of the game’s load in those three threads.

Looks like this on my side (Lions Arch in front of the bank; FX8350):

Yea whislt GW2 is technicaly multithreaded, its not multi thread optimized. If it were u would see much more balanced loads per thread and thus much better performance.

LordPhantom.1678:

Behellagh.1468:

Actually 3 CPU “intensive” threads (taking at least 50% a core each) looking at the game in Process Explorer from SysInternals. That over 70% of the game’s load in those three threads.

Looks like this on my side (Lions Arch in front of the bank; FX8350):

The two renderer threads drop significantly if the game isn’t the focus. Also you have to remember by 8 if you want to normalize utilization in terms of per core.

Let me get back with some of my own PE screen grabs.

Edit: Top image is with the game running in full screen window. By the time I could tab over to it so you can see it and do the screen capture, usage dropped a bit. Bottom image is with the game running in just a window with PE peaking out but the game has the focus.