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but can it run crisis the age-old question from The Glory Days of gaming

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and computers when we all still used optical drive Windows Vista was still a

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thing and 4K was just a glimmer in some developers eye since the Glory Days were

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a full eight years ago we decided that it was time to ask that question again

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but with Modern Hardware and see if we've gotten any closer to being able to

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run crisis without having to use a like military supercomputer or something give

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the video a like if you're interested in seeing another video on the steam

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controller Intel brings ddr4 to the mainstream with their new core i76700 K

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and core i56600k processors check out the link in the video description to

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learn more so the goal here was to check out how well modern product Stacks from

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both AMD and from NVIDIA could run a

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completely notoriously demanding title from yester year namely The Witcher 2

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assassin of the Kings from 2011 and the aformentioned crisis 1 from 2007 we ran

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both games at 1080p with the settings completely maxed out including enabling

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Uber sampling on The Witcher 2 which is an extremely hard to run anti-aliasing

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setting that was Infamous for causing huge performance hits on gpus at the

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time our AMD GPU stack included the topend R9 Nano and a surix Radeon 390x a

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Gigabyte wind Force r9290 a Sapphire R9

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285 compact an MSI gaming r9270 and

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finally a reference r7260x on the NVIDIA side we used a

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reference GeForce gtx980 TI a Gigabyte

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G1 gaming gtx980 an amp Omega Edition

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GTX 970 from Zotac an isus strix GTX 960

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and a GTX 950 with a reference GTX 750

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Ti for comparison as well we threw in a couple older cards too like a GeForce

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GTX 480 as well as an 8800 GT which was

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released around the same time as these games were for both Brands we use the

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latest drivers as of mid October 2015

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all of our testing took place on our standard test bench consisting of an

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Intel Core i7 5930k processor an ASUS

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x99 Deluxe motherboard 16 GB of Corsair

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Vengeance ddr4 RAM a Samsung 850 Pro 1

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TB SSD a Corsair h100 I GTX all-in-one

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cooler and a Corsair ax1200i fully modular power supply quite

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a far cry from your average high-end rig from back when crisis was released and

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people were unboxing their shiny new Q 6600s with all that said let's get right

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to the results people who utilized the answer to but can it run crisis as the

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definitive measuring stick for any gaming rig back in the late 2000s would

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probably be pleasantly surprised at how much gpus have evolved since then all

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but one of our modern cards achieved playable frame rates at 1080p with

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everything maxed out with higher end cards starting at the

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gtx970 and the r9290 getting frame rates

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between the mid 70s and low 9s not too

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surprising when you consider that for example the 980 TI has more than four

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times the number of cudak cor as one of the most popular top- end cards back

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when crisis came out the GeForce 8800

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Ultra the only modern card that came up short was our 750 Ti which only mustered

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8 frames per second not so great and

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therefore cannot really run crisis but

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while these numbers are fine if you have a 1080p 60 HZ monitor they might leave

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you feeling a little disappointed if you wanted to run crisis at higher

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resolutions or frame rates than you did back in the mid 2000s but when you

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consider the fact that frame rates in the 80 to 90 range are what you'll get

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on number of much more recent titles on

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Modern Hardware you can have expected crisis to run far better than it did for

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us additionally we noticed some very prominent screen tearing on a lot of our

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cards basically all of them so while our modern tech stack from gpus past the but

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canot run crisis test it wasn't really with flying colors moving on to the

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Witcher 2 we experienced slightly lower numbers as the game is only about 4

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years old as opposed to eight but still still playable frame rates and for the

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most part that's what we got with everything maxed out and Uber sampling

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enabled we saw a range from 27 frames

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per second on a GTX 950 and the r9270 to

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65 FPS on the gtx980 ti the only cars

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that didn't achieve playable frame rates were the r7260x and again the GTX 750 Ti

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interestingly we saw some pretty significant differences between AMD and

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NVIDIA cards during our Witcher 2 benchmarks although team red and Team

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Green were a lot closer on our crisis test NVIDIA ran away from AMD in The

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Witcher 2 with even the top end R9 Nano

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and R9 390x trailing the GTX 970 by a

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full 9 FPS and falling even further behind when compared to the top of the

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NVIDIA stack cards we suspected this was due to AMD cards reacting weirdly with

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Uber sampling so we tested uh without Uber sampling running and saw the FPS

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jump to 100 1 on the Nano but it still

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lagged behind the GTX 970 which put out

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117 FPS we dug a little bit further and

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we found that the Nano was throttling its GPU usage quite a bit which might

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also explain the strange results we got in The Witcher 2 when we tested it on

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another AMD card the Radeon 7970 back in

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2012 you can check out the results of that video up here but regardless of

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which team's card you have in your rig I wouldn't expect buttery smooth Gameplay

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at higher than 1080p resolutions if you crank everything up this game's pretty

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intense to run but even though the numbers might be slightly underwhelming

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considering how long both of these games have been on the market we've still

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obviously made a lot of progress in terms of how much your dollar will get

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you our GTX 480 a topend card back in

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2010 only put out 40 FPS in crisis and

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24 FPS in Witcher two with Uber sampling

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which was beaten by the 107 $7

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r9270 and a GTX 950 and just in case

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you've forgotten how difficult it was to run crisis our super old school 8800 GT

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crashed out of Crisis but was able to get six FPS in Witcher two so what's our

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conclusion other than this was pretty fun it's pretty clear that there's been

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a big improvement over the past few years of what you can do with even just

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a mid-range GPU but games that are

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legendarily difficult to run will still live up to that reput ation to a certain

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extent obviously you're still going to be in a great position to enjoy older

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titles if you have a decent modern card under the hood but if you ask your

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