5850m good for battlefield 3?

so the official specs have been released for the game and the 5850 already beats the minimum requirements but the recommended requirements are a directx 11 compatible graphics card 1024mb memory(GTX 560 or ATI 6950). i already beat everything else in the recommended requirements except for the graphics card. How high do u guys estimate that i'll be able to get a steady 60fps? i'd also like to know how good a 6970m would do too because i'm gonna try and get one soon.

 

Depending on whether that 5850 is stock or flash/oc'd to 5870 would make a difference on your performance level and graphics settings. Either way don't expect to run the game maxed out. The 6970 is a good jump from a 5850 and you definitely won't be disappointed. If you plan on getting the 6970 i would be very interested in buying your 5850 =).

 

Battlefield 3 System Requirements and Battlefield 3 Requirements for PC Games

i always go here to check if my m15x can handle games

 

i don't expect to get 60fps max settings haha but i do want to have it set pretty high and get some really good fps. i always overclock my 5850 to 750/1100 when playing games which is well above the 5870 clocks i think. also what is the desktop equivalent to both the 5850m and the 6970m?

 

5850m=downclocked 5770, 6970m=downclocked 6850, 6990m=downclocked 6870

 

Hm..i though 6970m would most likely be like 6770

 

Nah, both the 6970m and the 6850 desktop use the same Blackcomb XT chip with 960 shaders. Only the 6970m is lower clocked.

 

So neither of them are at least as good as a desktop 6950?

 

Nah no way. The Cayman chip has 1408 shaders, the one in the 6970 has 1536 shaders. The recommended specs probably are what desktop gamers want as standard. I'm an Optimist Prime to I'm hopeful that the standard that the recommended spec should produce is 60fps 1080p max with 8xAA. In which case the newer GPUs should be able to get decent playable 30fps 1080p maxed. No point being a Negatron about it before it has even released.

 

Well I never care to enable AA and I got the 1600x900 screen to get better fps. I think I should be pretty set though. Also Im gonna get my 6970 before the beta comes out so we will see.

 

if u can run bad company 2 then u should be fine for battlefield 3. im guessing u will be since my gtx 460m runs it fine

 

I don't think you can base battlefield 3 performance off of bfbc2 because they are also using a different engine.

 

yea battlefield 3 uses frostbite 2 and bad company 2 uses frostbite 1.5

frostbite 2 is based on 1.5 only difference is it fully takes advantage of direct x 11 API. whereas 1.5 only takes advantage of some of the API.

So if u can run bad company 2 on high (which i can right now and i have a gtx 460m, imagine what an overclocked 5850m can do) then youre in decent shape for battlefield 3.


plus the site i provided earlier says that u can run BF3 on medium to high settings with a 5870m

 

That site is full of BS. Nobody yet knows how BF3 retail will run, as even the beta isn't out for 4 more days.

To be perfectly honest, 5850m/5870m will most likely run BF3 @ Low/Medium settings @ 1080p with decent FPS.

 

According to one of the developers on Twitter, he claims that to max out the Frostbite engine, you'll need at least 2 desktop 580s which is a lot. Many things can factor in though such as res, AA, and AF. I think all of the talk is BS and is marketing for nvidia to sell some more GPUs. I'm optimistic and I'm hoping that I can max the details and res and AF, I'll leave AA for last. I remember when they said Bad Company 2 was intensive with new DX11 features etc. and now, any M15x user with a DX11 card (460m, 560m, 5850, 5870, 6970m, 6990m) can easily play it maxed out.

 

how is it bs? it just estimates how your system will do compared to the system requirements. they have been released already so ppl can get an idea of how well their pc will do.

u dont need to have a beta or the actual game to know how well your pc will do on a game. thats what system requirements are for.

 

Apparently that the 2 580s were needed because they were playing BF3 on 2 screens with max AA, tbh, i also think its a marketing gimmick.

But, at the same time, when 1942 was released, nothing could run it maxed for about 6 months, same thing happened with BF2, not surprised if it happens with this game too.

 

I can run bfbc2 on high with my 260m, but i don't turn up aa to max because to be quite honest on a M15x I really can't notice a difference after about 2-4x aa, af I have turned up a bit more because it doesn't seem to tax the gpu as much as the aa. So any of the gpu's listed on the previous post should be perfectly fine to game bf3 unless you're a hardcore gamer and want everything maxed out. If you have the screen size for it, then I can understand, otherwise it just seems pointless.

 

@ pax bf3 was running on dual 580s and was set to medium and it was choppy in some areas (1920x1080). Maybe release drivers will help improve performance.

 

I think it should run max with little to no problem. mabye take some things off but damn havent been this excited for a game since bf2