- Joined
- Nov 14, 2006
- Location
- Warsaw/Poland
It's not the strongest modern system you could build, but it's stronger than pretty much anything that existed in 2009 in the mainstream market: i5-6600, DDR4/3000/14, R9 280X. If you believe the benchmarks, the strongest due/quad/extreme existing in 2008/2009 with a 4890X2 can't offer merely the same power as an i5 with a 280X… or does it. Modern cards often end up scoring poor benchmarks in DX9 games, but GFX isn't all there is to it. In short, I'm often getting 30-ish fps and sometimes <20 fps (when more's going on) in Dragon Age 1(!) when I try forcing SSAA 16, anizo 16 etc. @ 1920x1080, enhancing app settings through Crimson. With VSR @1440p it's 5 to 10 less.
I could probably give up on supersampling and generally go down to app settings and get better fps with this, I guess, even @1440p, but this still has me thinking. The settings are pretty basic. DX9 is old. 1080p is old. And besides, I remember playing DA1 at max application settings (just not much enhancing via driver) @1440p on a fricken Core 2 Duo with the same graphics card, several weeks ago, and it's not like it was much slower with a HD4850 before I replaced the graphics.
I've gotta say this is quite underwhelming. I realize DA1/DX9 isn't going to put all physical cores to use, possibly just 1, but even in single-core Skylake i5 is supposed to be much stronger than a Core2Duo from 2008. I try to take solace in the hope that DX 10–12 is probably going to show improvement and get me some decent fps, but come on, here I was thinking that even an i3 with a 750ti would be dominating older games @ 1080p. Argh.
So what's your experience comparing modern systems to those from a decade ago in games, especially older games but not only?
I could probably give up on supersampling and generally go down to app settings and get better fps with this, I guess, even @1440p, but this still has me thinking. The settings are pretty basic. DX9 is old. 1080p is old. And besides, I remember playing DA1 at max application settings (just not much enhancing via driver) @1440p on a fricken Core 2 Duo with the same graphics card, several weeks ago, and it's not like it was much slower with a HD4850 before I replaced the graphics.
I've gotta say this is quite underwhelming. I realize DA1/DX9 isn't going to put all physical cores to use, possibly just 1, but even in single-core Skylake i5 is supposed to be much stronger than a Core2Duo from 2008. I try to take solace in the hope that DX 10–12 is probably going to show improvement and get me some decent fps, but come on, here I was thinking that even an i3 with a 750ti would be dominating older games @ 1080p. Argh.
So what's your experience comparing modern systems to those from a decade ago in games, especially older games but not only?
