At the moment, I'm running a 9800GTX+ 512MB card, and was thinking of whether or not to upgrade.
I every once in a while check the benchmarks, stats, and prices of newer cards, and it seems like this card is really holding its value.
I mean, the GTS 250 was a rebranded version of the thing. Both get about 705 GFLOPS or so.
And then even the 450 series is only, like, 600 GFLOPS, and the cards are still pricy.
From what I've seen, the cards that have similar horsepower to mine are running around $130+, and considering mine was about $150 when I got it, it seems the horsepower market hasn't actually grown a whole heck of a lot.
Ideally, I would like to spend the same amount I did originally, but get something at least twice as powerful.
Now, let's tackle on some more things: PhysX, TXAA, and SMAA.
As it is, I run my games at 2048x1152. I can usually play crysis at this setting fairly fine. In most other games, I have to put on some Anti-aliasing before I notice much of any slowdown.
Furthermore, I run an 8600GT alongside it for physx. So in games that support physX, that 256MB of memory is offloaded to the 8600GT. So it's about like "virtually" having a GTX 260 in terms of memory and performance.
And on top of ALL THAT, there are these new high-quality, high-performance FSAA modes. Like TXAA in the nvidia menu, and SMAA from a patch I downloaded. These modes have phenomenal quality and hardly hurt the performance.
So what is your opinion: Do the 8800, 9800, and other series around then still hold up in modern times? Does DX11 offer major performance benefits that make up the lack of horsepower change?
I every once in a while check the benchmarks, stats, and prices of newer cards, and it seems like this card is really holding its value.
I mean, the GTS 250 was a rebranded version of the thing. Both get about 705 GFLOPS or so.
And then even the 450 series is only, like, 600 GFLOPS, and the cards are still pricy.
From what I've seen, the cards that have similar horsepower to mine are running around $130+, and considering mine was about $150 when I got it, it seems the horsepower market hasn't actually grown a whole heck of a lot.
Ideally, I would like to spend the same amount I did originally, but get something at least twice as powerful.
Now, let's tackle on some more things: PhysX, TXAA, and SMAA.
As it is, I run my games at 2048x1152. I can usually play crysis at this setting fairly fine. In most other games, I have to put on some Anti-aliasing before I notice much of any slowdown.
Furthermore, I run an 8600GT alongside it for physx. So in games that support physX, that 256MB of memory is offloaded to the 8600GT. So it's about like "virtually" having a GTX 260 in terms of memory and performance.
And on top of ALL THAT, there are these new high-quality, high-performance FSAA modes. Like TXAA in the nvidia menu, and SMAA from a patch I downloaded. These modes have phenomenal quality and hardly hurt the performance.
So what is your opinion: Do the 8800, 9800, and other series around then still hold up in modern times? Does DX11 offer major performance benefits that make up the lack of horsepower change?