Bioshock Infinite
“BioShock Infinite is a first-person shooter like you’ve never seen. Just ask the judges from E3 2011, where the Irrational Games title won over 85 editorial awards, including the Game Critics Awards’ Best of Show. Set in 1912, players assume the role of former Pinkerton agent Booker DeWitt, sent to the flying city of Columbia on a rescue mission. His target? Elizabeth, imprisoned since childhood. During their daring escape, Booker and Elizabeth form a powerful bond — one that lets Booker augment his own abilities with her world-altering control over the environment. Together, they fight from high-speed Sky-Lines, in the streets and houses of Columbia, on giant zeppelins, and in the clouds, all while learning to harness an expanding arsenal of weapons and abilities, and immersing players in a story that is not only steeped in profound thrills and surprises, but also invests its characters with what Game Informer called “An amazing experience from beginning to end.” From Bioshockinfinite.com
In Bioshock Infinite, the GTX 980 leads the GTX 780 Ti at both resolutions: maybe Maxwell has more up its sleeve than I thought? Remember these are stock vs stock comparisons, all “AMD” and “Nvidia” marked graphics cards are using stock coolers with stock speeds and fan profiles.
The GTX 970 is a far better buy. It costs on average 30% less and sacrifices only ~18% in performance.
The new Maxwell architecture really seems to be uber efficient doing a lot more with a lot less. Impressive stuff indeed.
Sadly our GTX 970 only arrived four hours after the launch, the review will be coming next week though 🙂
I’ll wait to hear what you have to say but I’m confident you won’t be disappointed. 😉
“Amd was already quite some way behind kepler in power efficiency”, that’s not a true statement I’m afraid. The 780 ti and 290x performs almost equally while the 290x draws slightly more power. If you wanna make a statement how about explaining why it takes nvidia a 563mm2 die to compete with amd’s 439mm2 die and only just match it in real world performance. Also tell us why the fully unlocked kepler can only muster 1.7 tflops of double precision while full hawaii is capable of 2.8 tflops, Nvidia’s software allows them to compete with amd’s superiot architecture It seems.
I couldn’t agree more, but it seems that the new AMD cards are not totally new. I mean, starting from the HD7900 series, AMD hasn’t change the entire line. This is not good, so we should wait for another year. In any case, AMD R7 370 is a really good card (if you are in Europe, you may look for it already – http://hardware.nl/sapphire/11240-06-20g.html but I have read here http://www.pcworld.com/article/2976945/components-graphics/amd-quietly-launches-new-radeon-r9-370x-graphics-card-but-not-in-the-usyet.html that there are the USA customers cannot get it yet. Strange.