How Well Can NVIDIA GTX 460 768MB Run SC2 @ 1080P?

[geokilla]

How well can a NVIDIA GTX 460 768MB run SC2 @ 1080P? I recently bought a BenQ E2420HD from NCIX a couple weeks ago and I picked it up today. I'm wondering how well it'll run SC2 at 1080P with my current rig Phenom II rig. As we all know, SC2 is pretty CPU intensive, but would 768MB be cutting it a bit too close? I want to run SC2 with at least high or ultra detail. I'm using StarCraft II GPU Performance Comparison as a reference, and it seems that I should be able to play SC2 just fine with my GTX 460 768MB. If that's the case, I'll either sell or return the Sapphire 6950 1GB that I also picked up.

[ilya]

Notice the benchmarks you linked are for 1920x1200 not 1080p. If there was any concern at all, it would be your processor, but given the decent clock speeds I wouldn't be.

[geokilla]

Yep, which means it should perform even better as 1080P has less pixels than 1920X1200. But I just want to make sure because the Sapphire 6950 1GB for $200 + tax is a very good deal.

However the review SKYMTL did was a 2vs2 battle which is generally speaking, not as intense as those huge 1vs1 battles where it's like 200 supply vs 200 supply. I used to lag in the huge 1vs1 battles, thanks to High Templar storms and stuff. Turning down the CPU physics to high fixed it a bit and I haven't experienced anymore lag since.

Phenom II X4 and GTX 460 System Lagging

[Silvgearx]

I max out SC2 on a 9800GT.(stock setting)

1680x1050


There is that geforce site......

GeForce.com - Get the Most Out of Your GPU

[Kilauea]

I have a Phenom II X4 940 along with an HD4890 (very close to a GTX 460 768mb) and I play SC2 at Ultra at 1920x1200 just fine. (1v1, 2v2, 4v4)
My cousin has a Phenom II X3 720 along with a GTX 460 768mb and he has no problem, but he is not playing as much as I am.

[LarkStarr]

You should be able to run it perfectly at or near max settings.

[Teal3800]

I maxed it out on my I7 920 at 4.0 GHz and a 8800GTX Ultra at 1080p. I'm not sure what frames I had but I never noticed any slow down and a 460 is roughly twice as fast.

[Apathetik]

I have probably identical to your set up or what you're wondering, and ultra is too high. It chops in a lot of instances, but on high it runs well. 3v3s or 4v4s will still chop at high though. 1v1 or 2v2 will be fine at high, not ultra. 1gb of vram is recommended for ultra textures, 512mb for high. Hope this helps, cya in game maybe.

Also check this;

AnandTech - Bench - CPU

[Bond007]

Me and my brother both have msi gtx 460 768mb and play SCII. Mine is with x3 710 1680x1050. Everything maxed fine until the cpu bottleneck becomes a factor in 3v3 and 4v4. My brother is with i5 760 at 1920x1080 (1080p/your resolution) and never has any probems with everything maxed. In my experience SCII doesn't like AMD processors as much as intel and it is a very CPU intensive game as the units in the game goes up. That said I am still only at stock 2.6 ghz on my CPU.