Is the AMD Radeon HD 6970 good for Sims 3?

[ColoursOfAnElephant]

Is the AMD Radeon HD 6970 good for Sims 3 on the highest setting?

If not then what would be a good graphics card?

I play Sims 3 and WoW.

 

[th3_ory]

It'll do. Its gonna play well

 

[lazyboy947]

The 6970 is prob overkill for those games lol i play wow at ultra with a 6770 with good fps, and played ultra with a 9800gt at 30 fps. Both were at 1080p and were recent, and sims 3 isnt much more intense than wow for u can easily play both games at the same time as long as u have a decent cpu lol throw that gpu with a P4 or older athlon and forget about it lol

 

[jaguarskx]

It's overkill even if the Sims 3 way playable across three 1920x1080 monitors.

I would actually Google around on how to limit rendering in the Sim 3. From what I have read, even though the FPS is capped at 30 FPS within the game, the Sims 3 allows the GPU to render as many frames as possible. That means if the Radeon HD 6970 is actually powerful enough to render 100 FPS, there is no point in doing so because the Sims 3 is only going to display 30 of them. I recall some poster mentioning a way to limit how many FPS the GPU will render so that the GPU is not running at 100%, generating a lot of heat and using a lot of power all for nothing.