I think the fastest has always been a bit dodgy considering some games ran a hair better on nividia cards than they did ati cards even tho on paper and in benchmarks ati should have been faster, now some games are more tuned for one video card over the other, sometimes the drivers just are not up to snuff from one side or the other, lets face it both sides have spotty drivers nvidia have diaabled fans in one driver update and melted video cards oops, ati have regular spotty driver updates where games do not work at all, and both have issues with sli and xfire not having proper profiles for games releases, making sli and xfire an expensive proposition that may or may not be supported for x y z game any time soon.
physics is a gimmic, cup used to run physics stuff just fine, and physics should be able to be run of dual and quad and hex and octa core cps np with room to spare, but since nvidia snapped up physix now games have to use their cards if they want certain branding nvidia approved or whatever stamps nvidia wants to put on a game. arma2 is a game that does physics just fine using cpu course it is also a game that need a supercomputer to max it out.
really is there much point in having "the fastest" other than the 3p33n flogging? there are not many games that push the bounds of gfx anymore, even crysis 2 runs fine on a single modest gpu maxed out. unless your are pushing 3 monitors at crazy high resolutions there is probably not much of a difference you are going to see in your fps for many games and even if you get the fastest vs the 2nd fastest the difference might be a frame or two overall.
would be nice if these guys stopped sniping and just focused on making the best cards at the best value they can. who cares what is the abosolute fastest if for 600 bucks you are getitng a handful of frames more than a vastly cheaper card.
physics is a gimmic, cup used to run physics stuff just fine, and physics should be able to be run of dual and quad and hex and octa core cps np with room to spare, but since nvidia snapped up physix now games have to use their cards if they want certain branding nvidia approved or whatever stamps nvidia wants to put on a game. arma2 is a game that does physics just fine using cpu course it is also a game that need a supercomputer to max it out.
really is there much point in having "the fastest" other than the 3p33n flogging? there are not many games that push the bounds of gfx anymore, even crysis 2 runs fine on a single modest gpu maxed out. unless your are pushing 3 monitors at crazy high resolutions there is probably not much of a difference you are going to see in your fps for many games and even if you get the fastest vs the 2nd fastest the difference might be a frame or two overall.
would be nice if these guys stopped sniping and just focused on making the best cards at the best value they can. who cares what is the abosolute fastest if for 600 bucks you are getitng a handful of frames more than a vastly cheaper card.
not the cheapest second best performing =)
