- #CAN DARK SOULS 3 RUN ON AN NVIDIA GTX 680 PS4#
- #CAN DARK SOULS 3 RUN ON AN NVIDIA GTX 680 PC#
- #CAN DARK SOULS 3 RUN ON AN NVIDIA GTX 680 WINDOWS#
I’ve been in a very upbeat mood this week. It’s that little grin that you just can’t wipe off your face because you’re just so pleased by the experience.
#CAN DARK SOULS 3 RUN ON AN NVIDIA GTX 680 PC#
If you can afford it, PC gaming can spark that same kind of smile that folks who’ve driven a Tesla get. Second, I readily acknowledge that the GTX 980 is absolutely a higher-end card (it’s now the top single-GPU card in NVIDIA’s lineup)-and that you don’t have to have a higher-end card to get enjoyable PC gaming. (Though if you're wondering, the 980 is a pretty quiet card. Testing acoustics and power consumption extends beyond the equipment I have at the moment, so this is more of a quick look at how the GTX 980 does for gaming.
#CAN DARK SOULS 3 RUN ON AN NVIDIA GTX 680 PS4#
There are other points to consider such as the PS4 coming with 8 GB GDDR5 whereas many GTXs only have 1 or 2 GB, which means that even if the GPU card had power enough, it would lack memory to play some titles doing extensive use of it.First, a little transparency: having started at IGN just last week, my test lab is still in a fledgling state. My first estimation is that early-games for the PS4 will require of something like a GTX-680 for gaming them in the PC, whereas latter, optimized, games will require of something like a HD 7990 for gaming them in the PC.
However, the hardware in consoles is fixed within a given generation, and performance only can be obtained via optimization. I know that increased gaming performance on the PC is forced via introduction of fastest cards.
So far as I know those early demos are fast PC ports which were made in weeks, without further optimization to the PS4 hardware. It is interesting that early demos of the PS4 are comparing it to a i7 + 16 GB RAM + GTX-680. This gives a theoretical value of 9.2 TFLOP for a discrete graphics card in the PC side, which is superior to what can offer the newest HD 7990 and far beyond the GTX titan.Įven if we take only the conservative 2x value given by Carmack and ignore the rest of the hardware benefits (points 2 to 4), this would give an effective performance of 3.68 TFLOP, which is slightly superior to what offers a GTX-680.
#CAN DARK SOULS 3 RUN ON AN NVIDIA GTX 680 WINDOWS#
I would like to obtain an estimation of the PC equivalent to the graphic capabilities of the PS4.