Battlefield: Hardline System Requirements.What.The.Heck.

[Ungeheuer]

Hi guys!
The system requirements for Battlefield: Hardline have been announced and for some reason the recommended GPUs are the AMD Radeon R9 290 and the NVIDIA GTX 760. Isn't the NVIDIA GTX 760 more or less the equivalent of the AMD Radeon R9 280, which is definitely weaker than the AMD Radeon R9 290?

 

[ArchitSahu]

Classic EA, give you specs which are so OP and you need a big bank for that xD

Yes, GTX 760 is an equivilent of R9 280, and yes, it is less powerful than a R9 290. Don't argue with it, it's EA xD

 

[Vynavill]

My opinion is it's a VRAM issue, along with the usual misinformation official requirements usually have.

The GTX 760 should be equal to the R9 280, but both the 280 and the 280x are available only in 3GB VRAM models.
Both the GTX 760 and the R9 270x sport 4gb models, but the 270x likely doesn't have enough rendering muscle for a constant performance at high details on 1080p resolutions, and thus the higher available counterpart is chosen, which is a R9 290 in this case.

That said, you can most probably play the game fine with a 280x, as the performance it has will likely counter the lacking GB of VRAM.

 

[Ungeheuer]

Well, I don't think the NVIDIA GTX 760 is capable of utilizing 4 GB at once either. Also, after doing some research and looking up some benchmarks, it turned out that the NVIDIA GTX 760 is even slightly weaker than the AMD Radeon R9 280:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qim-asQrT_Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyYvoQPYPbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=337OTPP0QyA
Like ArchitSahu said, if it's EA, then it just doesn't make any sense. :lol:

 

[Vynavill]

That's why I noted "along with the usual misinformation"
Still, if the game has some kind of "superfetching" function, any card should be able to use as much VRAM as it can, while leaving behind a minimum for OS operation.

Anyways, It's not just EA lately, it's almost everyone; everything's good only if it has 4GB, otherwise it's all uncharted territory...
"Big numbers" marketing at its best, and nothing more than that. Same could be said of i7 quad-core chips being advertised as "octa-core" CPUs lol.

 

[ArchitSahu]

I have a feeling that all these game development companies have secret deals with companies like Intel, AMD Nvidia etc to post high specs in the official requirements to get more money xD

Yes, it is a joke, yes it it bad xD