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How Well will 7950GTX run DX10 Games?
I am not sure if this question can be answered, but how well will the
nvidia 7950 GTX paired with a T720 run DX10 games such as the upcoming Cryis and Unreal Tournament 2007. Will it handle it at good FPS?
To my understanding Crysis and Unreal were both running on non DX10 GPUs before the 8800 came out. Is this correct? If so, I would assume it should run it quite well.
How well do you guys think the 7950 GTX will hold against any mobile DX10 GPU that may come out, and what's different about the DX10, or to make it more clearer what makes it better? Will the 7950 become pretty much severely outdated as its a jump from dx9 to dx10 unlike the jump from 6xxx to 7xxx?
I know those are alotof questions and I can understand if you can only guess or estimate, but any feedback or thoughts are appreciated.
Thank You.
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Yes, it will handle it at good FPS.
However, it will not be able to run with any of the DX10 eye candy.
The thing with the Geforce 8 series is that it uses a totally different architecture. For example, instead of having seperate pipelines like in previous cards, the Geforce 8 series has shared pipelines. This new architecture meant that the new stream of GPUs were much more efficient at handling complex graphix are thereby provide better performance.
I'm not sure about other Geforce 8 series cards, but the higher end ones, the 8800 series, seriously outperform the 7950GTX.
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As Budding has said, the game should run quite well. But the extra features of Dx10 will not be present. You have to remember, that the Go 7950 GTX is still a very strong graphics card, and it will live on for many years to come. If you compare it to some of the DX10 cards that are planned, it will quite easily beat them on raw power, except for the Go 8800. That card, however, hasn't been announced yet, so we don't know the specifications, however, it should be based on the current G80, with many power optisisations made to it.
As a result, the flagship model should outperform the Go 7950 GTX, but not massively, as alot of tweaks need to be made to reduce power consumption, and heat output. It is also thought that the 384-bit bus currently used in the 8800 GTX, will be scaled back to 256-bit, to save on cost and card size.
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Thanks for your thorough and quick answers. I now feel a lot better about my gtx now.
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Your good for years on your 7950gtx. (On DX9 mode of course)
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wait link1313, your comment sparked my interest.
does that mean that future dx10 games (say a year from now) will all run on current generation dx9 cards? (as long as its in dx9 mode)?
will there be games that will have ONLY dx10 mode then? if so, when do you think that'll be? i mean when will dx10 games be totally mainstream and all over the shelves?
im looking at a go 7700 with an asus G1 and dont know if i should get that for college (hopefully all 4 yrs without switching another laptop)
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Well a direct x hasn't not been backwards compatible for a long time. But i believe this one is not backwards compatible, therefore if direct x10 features are used I don't see how a GPU without the technology to handle them will be able to =/
will there be games that will have ONLY dx10 mode then? if so, when do you think that'll be? i mean when will dx10 games be totally mainstream and all over the shelves?
Nobody can really answer that, but i know I can still play games in direct x7 mode if i wanted to.
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so pretty much anyone who buys a laptop now is screwed for the next few years and cannot play any next gen games?
thats so lame, why do they even bother selling laptops then
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so pretty much anyone who buys a laptop now is screwed for the next few years and cannot play any next gen games?
thats so lame, why do they even bother selling laptops then
I didn't say that, in fact nobody here knows.
You can play next generation games (i.e. crysis etc). Just like people with older GPUs that were designed for past versions can play on newer versions.
But they did say dx10 is not backwards compatible so (I have no clue) but i'm guessing you will have to select an option in-game for dx9 mode. But you can still play it obviously because companies want to make money and your still playing the game itself.
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errr what?
lol
you really confused me
so if i get an Asus G1 with the go7700 right now, i WILL be able to play dx10 games in the future? (just not at the amazing dx10 graphics?im ok with that btw)