Hey team, I know this isn't a classic overclocking post, no volts, no BIOS mods, but figured it might still interest some of you who like pushing old gear just to see what gives first.
I tested Marvel Rivals on a GTX 960 2GB with an i5-12600KF. Was mostly curious how far modern games will scale if the GPU is ancient but the CPU is solid.
Here’s what I found:
High settings: ~10 FPS
Medium: ~20 FPS
Low: ~30 FPS
Low + 30% render scale: ~94 FPS (while looking at the sky)
Playable? Technically, yeah. Visually, it looked like I wiped the screen with a cheese toastie.
Biggest surprise was how much render scale alone boosted frames. Dropping post-processing or geometry didn’t really help, but tanking resolution? That did it. Even with only 2GB VRAM, it didn’t stutter – just tore itself to pieces trying to keep up.
The 960 was flat-out bottlenecked the entire time, CPU wasn’t breaking a sweat. Wasn’t expecting it to run this well at all, honestly.
If anyone here’s tested Marvel Rivals on a GTX 970, 1050 Ti, R9 380, or anything else borderline, would love to hear how it compares.
I recorded the test and included framerates, render scale tweaks, and settings comparisons if you're curious:
https://youtu.be/lOOBslacmyA
Let me know if you’ve tried anything cursed lately. I’ve got some worse ideas brewing, next up I think I'll try a 4080 super and a 3770k stock, then OC'd shitless to see if there is any drastic improvement.
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Interesting.
I wonder how well something like the igpu on my 9950x3d would fare if I manually allocate 10gb of dram. Not that more is gonna help as it’s still miles slower than vram but it would be interesting.
What bench is that? Looks super useful.