Absolutely true. 120Hz makes a nice difference. But then one should also be willing to spend some bucks to buy a better gfxcard. 
The TITAN i used for testing is still top notch, but by now the new Maxwell based cards are even better. If i find some time i can also do some tests on a GTX970 and M6000 for comparison.
And then there is also still room for performance improvement, as we only did rudimentary optimizations so far.
Yah, but the headroom needed to jump from 60 to 120 is double and you often don't get that with card differences from simply going from the GTX x60s or x70s to the x80s and SLI seems to introduce other issues and have pros and cons to single / well built cards. I have a MSI GTX 760 that is overclocked to the hills for both memory and GPU clock speed (it's essentilaly equivalent to a 770) and still see how low the FPS on the current VP9 DX9 / physmod builds go to once using 1440p / 120hz and some FXAA (thank goodness for v-sync now working without physics issues). It's on a fairly current / beefy CPU / motherboard as well.
I hear yah on the need for good cards but the difference from some of these already arguably good speed / fat bus / high GB per second transfer cards and OC's aren't going to be too far behind the 980s and what not. Also, the Titan's price point for performance percent increase is a pretty classic dimminishing returns scenario.
One thing I do have to check into more deply is the variation of GPU power on VP since it's move to DX9. Previously the CPU power seemed to be more important / a bottleneck but of course that's changed with the DX9 port. To what degree the card makes the difference I'm not 100% certain but can still see some aspect by changing my crazy OC GPU timings and Memory timings back to default and observe the effective drop on a test VP table.
Hope some of the plans for rendering optimization allow us to really gain some stuff back so we can have all these options as head room will still be needed for future versions with the dynamic-all aspect but also by then we'll be getting a little more technology refresh / improvement.
It will be interesting to see in general the difficulties in the PC / gaming industry with the increase of resolutions happening much quicker / forecasted than that of what the GPU will be needed to do to keep up with it (4k gaming vs. 1080p obviously going to take 4 times the power and most graphic card upgrades might only give at best double the performance or 200% with most upgrades yielding less and the top of the line cards getting maxed out well before smooth 4k game play with AA and other game features enabled can be don).
At CES this year they had a demo 8k TV and some technology for actually getting 8k at 120hz (exciting but can't imagine what the graphics cards are going to have to do to stay anywhere near that pace of effective resolution factor increase vs. GPU performance factor increase).
Edited by jimmyfingers, 21 January 2015 - 07:58 PM.
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