I agree. That's a pretty nice card. I recently built a mid range gaming pc for a client with a Gigabyte GTX 960 G1 and it performed even better than I thought on games! Can play most games on High @ 60fps. (Change a few settings though, like no AA, etc.) And he was playing on a 1080p monitor.
The problem is everybody wants to gooi all the sliders to the right without looking at the visuals & impact. Even a gtx 980 is gonna struggle in some games to give you a solid 60 fps when you do so. Some of the gfx options add nothing to the game or actaully make it look worse as far as I'm concerned, things like motion blur, depth of field, chromatic aberations, vignetting actually detracts from a game. Then you have AA where people turn it up to max msaa+txaa etc and the entire image becomes 'soft', an out of focus look. Some people I can understand like this but I don't wanna play my games that way, even if I had a Titan X I would disable those features.
The thing that pisses me off with game developers is they dance to the tune of gpu manufacturers and include their crap while excluding other useful technologies. You pay a heavy tax for nvidia gameworks, TressFX for example has less of a hit than nVidia Hairworks, many games you will see the option of FXAA AA from nVidia which sucks donkey balls, the free to use SMAA kicks it's ass and looks really good without the heavy GPU tax of MSAA etc (i'm not saying it's as good as MSAA but it kicks the pants off blurry FXAA). Every game out there should have the option of using SMAA I reckon. When moving around in a game I doubt many people would notice a difference between SSAO and HBAO+ which also has a GPU tax.
Before people start to play a game they should look at the
nVidia tweak guides to see the impact of the various settings on fps & whether you would actually notice the visual change.
All my games I disable the ingame AA and inject SMAA via SweetFX, I wish all developers would offer SMAA as a standard option. nVidia geforce experience is a crock of schite as they enable nvidia technologies and turn down all the other settings, you can do much better manually editing your own settings.
How is it that CDPR can have a game running at 4k resolution only using 1.8GB of VRAM looking stunning while other companies have you chowing VRAM and you have to start turning down texture quality etc?
