I was wondering about what makes a video card better than others in dolphin.
The threads I've seen usually people talks about bandwidth and not amount of shaders and cores.
I've so far only played Xenoblade on my computer and it ran pretty well with everything maxed, but now I'm playing Pandoras Tower which runs fine, but when I go 4x IR and Anti aliasing the FPS drops, so currently I'm running 3x IR and 4xAA.
My current card is a GTX285 which carried over from my last machine and have served me very well for several years.
The card was the last card ever made with 512 bit bus and thus have a bandwidth comparable to everything except the current high end offers, but the core speed and amount of shaders are lower than new cards.
The GTX 285 is 159 GB/sec and a GTX 660Ti is only 144 GB/sec, however a GTX670 is 192GB/sec.
Will a 660Ti be better in dolphin or would I need a GTX670 to have any increase?
I'm not sure if I'm actually gonna upgrade just yet, since it does still a remarkable job with my other games, but I'm very interested in know what makes a graphics card good for dolphin or not. Also a GTX670 is over $500 in my country, and I'm not ready to shell out that kind of money yet, however a 660Ti is just above $350, which could be an option.
I know this shouldn't be related, but I'm running a i5-2500k@4.3Ghz which seems to have no issues keeping up.
(Turning down IR to 1x and not restrict FPS usually gives me 120-140% game speed, depending on where I am)
The threads I've seen usually people talks about bandwidth and not amount of shaders and cores.
I've so far only played Xenoblade on my computer and it ran pretty well with everything maxed, but now I'm playing Pandoras Tower which runs fine, but when I go 4x IR and Anti aliasing the FPS drops, so currently I'm running 3x IR and 4xAA.
My current card is a GTX285 which carried over from my last machine and have served me very well for several years.
The card was the last card ever made with 512 bit bus and thus have a bandwidth comparable to everything except the current high end offers, but the core speed and amount of shaders are lower than new cards.
The GTX 285 is 159 GB/sec and a GTX 660Ti is only 144 GB/sec, however a GTX670 is 192GB/sec.
Will a 660Ti be better in dolphin or would I need a GTX670 to have any increase?
I'm not sure if I'm actually gonna upgrade just yet, since it does still a remarkable job with my other games, but I'm very interested in know what makes a graphics card good for dolphin or not. Also a GTX670 is over $500 in my country, and I'm not ready to shell out that kind of money yet, however a 660Ti is just above $350, which could be an option.
I know this shouldn't be related, but I'm running a i5-2500k@4.3Ghz which seems to have no issues keeping up.
(Turning down IR to 1x and not restrict FPS usually gives me 120-140% game speed, depending on where I am)
Desktop HTPC:
Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming5- i7-4790k MSI-B75-E33, i5-2500k
Corsair Vengeance 16GB RAM Crucial 8GB RAM
Gigabyte GTX780 GHz Edt. ASUS GTX960 Strix
Win 10 Pro / OS X 10.10 Win 10 Pro
Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming5- i7-4790k MSI-B75-E33, i5-2500k
Corsair Vengeance 16GB RAM Crucial 8GB RAM
Gigabyte GTX780 GHz Edt. ASUS GTX960 Strix
Win 10 Pro / OS X 10.10 Win 10 Pro