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Johnw1104 on 23 August 2017
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vivster said:
Johnw1104 said:

That's not unreasonable.

I must confess and admit that a few months ago I splurged for the first time on a top-of-the-line gpu in the Titan (up until now I've generally aimed for the best cost-to-performance ratio). A gross waste of money as all top tier hardware always is (especially gpu's, which age faster than other parts), but it was clear from testing videos and such that the bar for 4k and the better HTC Vive VR experiences was exceedingly high. The Titan was the only gpu that was able to handle both with consistency.

In my experience, even the 1080ti here can struggle at times to maintain 4k settings. 4k gaming is really still in its infancy, and is exceedingly expensive. I think the compromised "4k" we see in the PS4 Pro and Scorpio might have convinced people that it's easier to achieve and out to be cheaper. Thankfully, in just a couple years my grossly expensive gpu will be worth very little and 4k will be far more accessible at cheaper costs, but for now it's mostly out of reach.

*Edit* I should clarify that I'm assuming you wish to keep the settings as maximized as possible, rather than sacrificing most of them to achieve resolution. Many games can hit 4k if you're willing to turn all of those various, resource-hogging settings down, but I often find I prefer many of them to better resolution.

Good points. The problem with these kinds of threads is that it equates PC and console versions. It's conveniently ignored that PC uses higher quality assets and more complex rendering such as lighting. PC also uses actual 4k and actual 60fps.

All in all this means that PC versions are several times more demanding. If you consider that you have to stitch 3 PS4 Pros together to reach the performance of a 1080ti it puts the $800 price into perspective.

Yeah, it's always frustrating when you go all in on top tier hardware and the game still recommends lower than maximum settings lol... once you look under the advanced tab, though, it almost always becomes very obvious why you can't usually slide every slider all the way to the right. 

Otherwise, I think the confusion about 4k is due (first and obviously) to most console gamers not also having a decked out PC, but also the clever marketing of Sony and Microsoft have people thinking that 4k is attainable in the $400-500 range, when in reality it's an exceptionally compromised (if still great-looking) 4k experience. Really, with these console versions I'd generally prefer rame rates and whatever additional assets/rendering they can include over the semi-4k resolution... I prefer consoles for some genres and like playing with my friends on them as well, so I hope they make the option available to choose between a better running 1080p and the "sort of" 4k option in most games.