@saintsatan said:
@Zoneage123 said:
CPU: i5 4670K @4.2 GHz
GPU: AMD HD 7770 OC
RAM: 8GB @1600MHz
Can I play it at least medium settings 60fps? (1680x1050 resolution)
Highly doubtful, maybe on low settings.
It runs on the xboxone but not at 60 fps, it runs at 30 fps and in a lot of cases even lower., it does run at 1080p though, the xboxone probably runs at medium detail settings. The x1 gpu with the esram is a bit stronger than that hd 7770, your cpu is way stronger than the x1 though.
Medium settings and 60 fps will probably only be possible on 720p (1280 x 720). 1680 x 1050 will probably be 40 ish or even less, this is the kind of resolution where the hd 7770 starts bottlenecking with a lot of games. Of course lowering the detail settings would improve framerate but the hd 7770 is more of a 720p card for the latest games. GTA V is still a last gen remaster though so you might get lucky.
Still, you would greatly improve your performance at higher resolutions like 1680 x 1050 by upgrading your graphics card. A 750ti would already be a nice upgrade and it only uses 60 W. Ideally would be a gtx 960 but it costs 200+$, the 750 ti is more 140 ish. But when you spend that amount of money you could look even further because the gtx 960 only has 2gb and that's a bit small for future games. However it is also based on maxwell and doesn't use a lot of power. With the next maxwell based cards (the gtx 970) you're looking already at 350$+. If power consumption isn't you're greatest concern and you don't mind amd you can have a r9 290 already for 270 ish $ that has the same performance. But for that you will a psu that can run it (600w at least) or high quality 500w.
If you decide to upgrade I would wait for the benchmarks and then look what card to buy, there are a lot of options but you'll need to spend at least 100$ to have a decent upgrade with a 500w psu. If you psu is weaker you'll have to spend at least 120-140$ for a 750 ti, but that card will work with any power supply unit. Of course these are new prices, there's also a second hand market. I bought my r9 280x for 120$ used. It's a hella strong card for that price but it uses an eye watering 250 W. I downclocked it a bit so it uses a bit less, the r9 280 x is after all a factory overclocked hd 7970 ghz edition and the 7970 ghz edition is a factory overclocked 7970.
of course you would never get this kinda of clock speeds on a 7970 but the r9 280 x has superior cooling, that doesn't change my power bill though :) Still, it's a wonderfull card , at full speed , it's 3 times as fast as your hd 7770. However if you can afford the r9 290, it uses about the same amount of power of the r9 280x but it will simply quadruple your hd 7770's performance for 250w of juice. The gtx 970 will do the same at only 160 W but you'll pay about 70$ more. You will have all the nvidia perks like physx but the card actually only has 3.5 gb instead of 4 gb. While the r9 290 has a fully fledged 4gb ram.
That 4 gb vs 3.5 gb will only come into play when you start playing at 4k but the gtx 970 also has vr support, in the sense that it has lower latency in video output. The nvidia 9 series are the only cards to have this feature.
So it's easy when you look at the difference between the latest nvidia 9 series and amd cards. Nvidia has
- less video ram
- a more expensive price tag
- support for physx
- support for vr
- maxwell technology, so a significantly smaller power enveloppe (it uses less power)
The 750 ti and 750 are the only other maxwell based cards, which means they also have that smaller power enveloppe. They don't have support for vr but they still have suport for physx and are a bit more expensive than the amd counterpart. The memory is about the same (2 gb) as amd counterparts. The gtx 750 is not really interesting for you since it is only a bit faster than the hd 7770.
If you wonder about the performance of other cards, this list should help you
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