The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings GPU & CPU Performance

Very information article. Been looking for exactly this information and did not find it until now.

The High/Ultra (sans Uber) is interesting. Using a GPU monitor i'm not seeing any difference in GPU Vid Mem usage when switching between High and Ultra.

At first I really didn't like cinematic depth of field, but I have to say, from towers and looking down roads, this setting really looks stunning.

how would you like to work and not get paid?

Although I agree with a few of the users with the assertion that it may be inefficient programming at some level, but I for one like to see a game come out that at max settings can bring even the best rigs to their knees. Not only does it push for the hardware to be better, but also if you only are able to use low or mid settings at launch, and you upgrade later and re-play the game at now top settings you are then rewarded with those beautiful graphics the developers intended. Also, forcing developers to target only mid-rage hardware out currently potentially stifles creativity...

That's my 2 cents at least...

Duke Nukem Forever benchmarks please!

i wonder if they developed TW2 using DX11... IT WILL PUTS ALL OTHER AAA GAMES A SHAME!!!

Its just a bloody shame that one cannot play W2 on a computer that had no problems while running Oblivion.

Please Techspot, include an Intel dual core processors (e.g. Intel Core i3 2100) in the CPU performance benchmark to see how Intel dual cores processor perform compared to others.

Thanks for the results, have been using as reference for future purchases.

Only bummed testing did not involve the intel gulftowns (hexacores) I7-980x =(. If CPU scaling is that much of a factor, kinda surprised 990x was not on here (smaller/newer technology, 12mb cache) other than non-mainstream/cost issues (who are we kidding, these are $500+ video cards when you can run TW2 on $150 GPUs)). If people are shelling out that kind of dough to kill time, ie high quality $500+ videocards, $100+ CPU coolers, $100+ aftermarket enclosures, multiple $300+ LCDs, an unknown amount of time lost due to testing/fiddling around... what people would pay for productivity/multitasking (and a little gaming wont hurt!). I most certainly see no reason for compromise when I can justify a xxx GPU, running on my workstation.

Regardless, good to see I've invested on futureproofing (my workstation, also runs TW2, DA2, etc, just fine):
Sager 9280 laptop (X58 chipset)
Desktop I7-960 CPU in laptop form factor (upgradeable to 990X)
Nvidia GTX285 (upgradeable to 485)
12GB RAM (upgradeable to 24GB)
Operating System Drive: Raid0 intel x25 SSDs x2
Data Drive: SATA Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1tb.

What is the rest of your system? I just bought parts for a new PC (HD 6970, i7 2600, 8GB RAM 1600). Would be awesome if I could get around 70fps on 1920*1200.

Very poor saying its runs in dx9