Digital Foundry: £100 Graphics Card vs Next-gen consoles

[Munkeh111]

torok said:

Munkeh111 said:
So it's not quite a fair comparison as your £100 graphics card will likely find itself in a £400+ system. You would also only expect this parity to last another few months and teams get more time and more experience working on next-gen hardware

The problem is as a PC gamer you always want more. My 670 could provide nice 1080p gaming, but once I can't hit ultra and keep the frame rate up, I'm going to want more power rather than just lowering the settings. Star Citizen is going to ruin me

I actually see the bigger problem in flutuating framerate. In AC IV, my GTX650TI can achieve 60 fps in some areas, but when we reach locations with more vegetation, it woud dip to 20 fps unless I lower my settings. In the end, you have to lower the visuals for the worse part on the game, while the console version is automatically optimized, they will just remkve what they have to in any area to achieve the performance they want.

Well I think a performance difference that large is rare. I think I generally have v-sync on, which means a rock solid 60fps in most game. Far Cry 3 was at a solid 30fps and my little playthrough of Crysis 3 found things mostly stable at about 45fps

With PC, you're always going to have to accept that you are going to have to "get your hands dirty" to a certain extent. With the variety in PCs, the number of issues are going to be higher and higher still given the lack of care that is going to continue to be taken