It appears to me that DICE decided to set the bar higher in terms of required hardware in order to not sacrifice on image quality in a large way. I am surprised by how good the game looks in not only Ultra settings but also in High and Medium settings. Update 2 (9/30/11): We have some quick results from our time on the Caspian Border map as well if you are interested – check them out!īattlefield 3 definitely looks good, though perhaps not as good as the trailers would have led us to believe. Update (9/29/11): We have new performance results for the GeForce GTX 460, Radeon HD 5850 and even the GeForce 9800 GT! Be sure you find those on the last page of our article! But with so much time between now and the final game release, that could shift or remain the same depending on the driver work each team puts in. Overall I think the NVIDIA cards are currently offering just a bit better experience than the AMD cards due to my instability with the HD 6970 and the better multi-GPU scaling being reported with SLI than CrossFire. ![]() So this is just another factor of many to consider when it comes to making your purchase. The unfortunate part of this scale is that as the price goes down in our card selection it LOOKS like the best deal is the HD 6870 – our rating doesn’t take the playability of the experience into account. On the outdoor scene that result flips and the HD 6950 is the better value than the GTX 570. Wow, this is really making things more complicated though, isn’t it? If we look at the HD 6970 and the GTX 570 on the outdoor scene (since the indoor section crashed on the AMD solution) you can see that the GTX 570 is actually a slightly better deal that both the HD 6970 and the HD 6950. Card – Indoor / Outdoor Cost (lower is better).If we look at a value of cost per FPS (dollar per frame per second) then this is the break down where the lower the cost, the better: ![]() Also, the HD 6870 is pretty big cost jump down from the GTX 560 Ti. The GTX 570 and the Radeon HD 6970 seem to go nearly head-to-head in cost while the HD 6950 sits all by itself between the GTX 560 Ti and the GTX 570. The pricing stack of these cards tested puts an interesting spin on things. Let’s take a look at current card pricing and performance: ![]() The GTX 580 and Radeon HD 6970 users should have no problem maxing out the settings in most cases though again we are still waiting for the 64 player maps to open so we can see how that affects PC performance.
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