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| Beatle:
--- Quote from: zz_tophat on August 29, 2009, 02:54:28 AM ---Depends entirely on what you update to. You can buy a good cpu, ram & gpu for your rig and have it play all the newest games for 2-3 years. --- End quote --- Wow, thats awhile. I never knew that. What's the best top of the line video card around now? |
| zz_tophat:
--- Quote from: Beatle on August 29, 2009, 02:56:09 AM ---Wow, thats awhile. I never knew that. What's the best top of the line video card around now? --- End quote --- --- Quote --- ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 X2 Graphics Specifications * 1.912 billion processors (956 million transistors per GPU on 55nm fabrication process) * PCI Express® 2.0 x16 bus interface * 512-bit GDDR3 memory interface (ATI Radeon™ HD 4850 X2) * 512-bit GDDR5 memory interface (ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 X2) * Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support o Shader Model 4.1 o 32-bit floating point texture filtering o Indexed cube map arrays o Independent blend modes per render target o Pixel coverage sample masking o Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders o Gather4 texture fetching F * Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture o 1600 stream processing units + Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders + Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders + Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors o 128-bit floating point precision for all operations o Command processor for reduced CPU overhead o Shader instruction and constant caches o Up to 320 texture fetches per clock cycle o Up to 128 textures per pixel o Fully associative multi-level texture cache design o DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression o High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192 o Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs o Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer o Early Z test and Fast Z Clear o Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1) o Lossless color compression (up to 8:1) o 8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support o Physics processing support * Dynamic Geometry Acceleration o High performance vertex cache o Programmable tessellation unit o Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification o Memory read/write cache for superior stream output performance * Anti-Aliasing Features o Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4 or 8 samples per pixel) o Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for superior quality o Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling o Gamma correct o Super AA (ATI CrossFireX™ configurations only) o All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering * Texture Filtering Features o 2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel) o 128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering o sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma) o Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF) o Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support o Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support * OpenGL 3.1 support ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform1 o 2nd generation Unified Video Decoder (UVD 2) + Enabling hardware decode acceleration of H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 + Dual stream playback (or Picture-in-picture) o Hardware MPEG-1, and DivX video decode acceleration + Motion compensation and IDCT o ATI Avivo Video Post Processor1 + New enhanced DVD up-conversion to HD + New automatic and dynamic contrast adjustment + Color space conversion + Chroma subsampling format conversion + Horizontal and vertical scaling + Gamma correction + Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing + De-blocking and noise reduction filtering + Detail enhancement + Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction) + Bad edit correction + Full score in HQV (SD) and HQV (HD) video quality benchmarks o Two independent display controllers + Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display + Full 30-bit display processing + Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion + Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays + High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs + Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays + Fast, glitch-free mode switching + Hardware cursor o Two integrated DVI display outputs + Primary supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)2 + Secondary supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI only)2 + Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content4 o Two integrated 400MHz 30-bit RAMDACs + Each supports brown townog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x15361 o DisplayPort™ output support + Supports 24- and 30-bit displays at all resolutions up to 2560x16002 + Integrated HD audio controller with up to 2 channel 48 kHz stereo or multi-channel (7.1) AC3 enabling a plug-and-play cable-less audio solution5 o HDMI output support + Supports all display resolutions up to 1920x10802 + Integrated HD audio controller with up to 2 channel 48 kHz stereo or multi-channel (7.1) AC3 enabling a plug-and-play cable-less audio solution5 o Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder + Provides high quality brown townog TV output (component/S-video/composite) + Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions + Underscan and overscan compensation o MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264/AVC encoding and transcoding o Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time o VGA mode support on all display outputs * ATI PowerPlay™ Technology4 o Advanced power management technology for optimal performance and power savings o Performance-on-Demand + Constantly monitors GPU activity, dynamically adjusting clocks and voltage based on user scenario + Clock and memory speed throttling + Voltage switching + Dynamic clock gating o Central thermal management - on-chip sensor monitors GPU temperature and triggers thermal actions as required * Dual Mode ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology o Scale up rendering performance and image quality with up to four GPUs o Integrated compositing engine o High performance bridge interconnect --- End quote --- |
| zz_tophat:
If you don't know what all that means, It means it makes the real world look like stuff. |
| Beatle:
--- Quote from: zz_tophat on August 29, 2009, 02:58:18 AM --- --- End quote --- Holy 0_0. Well I don't think I can even afford something like that, plus i'd have to get a desktop. I have been thinking of asus actually, I wonder how good they are. --- Quote ---If you don't know what all that means, It means it makes the real world look like stuff. --- End quote --- Lol. Sounds pretty powerful to me. |
| zz_tophat:
It's only about $400 |
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