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JustReason said:
That's the thing, its not really cheating (well kinda by not being equal) its more of what is expected in driver updates. For instance in TW3 AMD users had instant relief by having the ability in driver to adjust tessellation, Nvidia users, aptly the Kepler crowd did not, so the only alleviation available to them would be from drivers from Nvidia.

As far as discernable looks there was an Nvidia setup manual thing for it and it showed the difference (looks like it was removed or I was drunk when I thought I saw it there, and I don't drink). I do know that 64X is far smaller than a pixel therefore unnecessary as many have stated thus far.

I am not a reddit fan, never go there of my own volition but searching gave me this: Force tessellation level control? • /r/nvidia

Well I guess I wasn't drunk (obviously):
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Well I guess you can see that on 1440p 16x is quite sufficient.

Could have sworn it showed thru 64X.

There was also a new image that AMD released that showed the tessellation factor against a pixel size referencing Ungines Heaven Benchmark where 64X was far smaller than a pixel.

Fortunately I saved the Q&A from AMDs Robert Hallock mostly for this one point he made:
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These screenshots are not 1440p, each image is one quarter of a 1440p, however I can clearly see difference between them in those small images so I can imagine difference is much more noticeable in a 4k display and in motion.
Do you know in the Witcher 3 tessellation level is adjustable in Graphics options menu? I think the only reason for limiting tessellation in the driver is to get a free performance boost in benchmarks.
 
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Nima84 said:
These screenshots are not 1440p, each image is one quarter of a 1440p, however I can clearly see difference between them in those small images so I can imagine difference is much more noticeable in a 4k display and in motion.
Do you know in the Witcher 3 tessellation level is adjustable in Graphics options menu. I think the only reason for limiting tessellation in the driver is to get a free performance boost in benchmarks.
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There wasn't a slider at release, evident in the NVIDIA reddit link I posted.

I will get to the rest later, at work and very busy
 
JustReason said:
I think it was more the MSAA on the hair than Tess alone. They just compounded the performance impact. Turning down the MSAA was far better than the tessellation because you still got the IQ with less of a hit, although still higher than off completely.
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Could be, although I remember reading something strange about the Tessellation as one gets closer to the view of Geralt's hair and this causes a lot of the performance tanking, probably exponentially more complex as one is closer to it.
Mods at one point were looking for ways to disable-tweak his hair while keeping available for beasts/monsters, but I thought they could not do anything for whatever reason.
Cheers
 
Araxie said:
Partially agreed.. as much as 4 overclocked skylake cores may be, games like BF4 show large advantage of 4+ cores..

however it may also not show any truly Mantle/DX12 advantage as used with a weak AMD eight cores CPU even overclocked.

I think for the sake of a real world environment test, the choosen i5 is a good match for couple of 380X/960 xfire/sli setup, I hardly can think of anyone spending lot of money in higher end i7 and then using low end cards for gaming..
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True, but these cards are only low end if you run one of them. In Xfire / SLI lets think of constant 120 Hz at 1080P. They are very relevant.
I don't care for anything over 1080. Ever since I started using 120Hz monitor. A Samsung Syncmaster 700SA. I don't see myself going to anything less. I was skeptical in the beginning, but once you see it there is no going back.
Higher res looks good. It has to be bigger panel 27" and up.
Im wating for Samsung to release 30' and 35" 144Hz widescreen panels. If they are anything close to what this SA700 is capable of. Im sold, Ill grab another Fury X along with one of the 21:9 monitors.
 
Imhotep said:
True, but these cards are only low end if you run one of them. In Xfire / SLI lets think of constant 120 Hz at 1080P. They are very relevant.
I don't care for anything over 1080. Ever since I started using 120Hz monitor. A Samsung Syncmaster 700SA. I don't see myself going to anything less. I was skeptical in the beginning, but once you see it there is no going back.
Higher res looks good. It has to be bigger panel 27" and up.
Im wating for Samsung to release 30' and 35" 144Hz widescreen panels. If they are anything close to what this SA700 is capable of. Im sold, Ill grab another Fury X along with one of the 21:9 monitors.
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I know your feelings, that's the same reason in at 1080P.. im not going back ever.. probably until I can do the same at 1440P@120+hz with any game maxed out..
 
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