Players familiar with console games should know that Sony PlayStation has a number of high-quality game series, and only exclusively released on the PS console platform, including the "God of War" series that became famous in World War I, with an epic game plot, the protagonist's rich skill tree and a lively combat experience, the new "God of War" in 18 years had suppressed "Red Dead Redemption" and won the best game of the year.
Test platform
In addition to the test platform graphics card for the cultivation of RTX308012GB wind chasing, the processor we use Core i9-12900K, memory for the Zhi Fantasy Blade DDR5-6000 32GB sleeve, the performance of this platform has been quite strong, there is no performance bottleneck problem, but under the 4K resolution, whether the video memory capacity is enough, or have to play a question mark.
Game quality settings: 4K resolution + ultra-high quality presets
The image quality is the Ultra High preset
The official "God of War" PC version officially claims that the picture quality has been "greatly improved", and it is also better than the host platform in terms of resolution and frame rate support (backstabbing old users again), including support for 4K resolution, unlimited frame rate, finer shadows, more realistic screen space reflections, and ultra-wide format support with a fish screen at 21:9.
Even if it is a masterpiece launched in 2018, Sony's optimization support for the PC version of "God of War" is still quite in place, it supports NVIDIADLSS deep learning hypersampling technology and NVIDIAReflex low-latency technology, even if it is not a flagship graphics card, you can feel the ultra-high resolution screen through DLSS, at the same time, after opening DLSS, you can also know the corresponding translation resolution, for example, in the DLSS "picture quality" file, the resolution is 2560x1440.
Here to complain, the game is on the shelves in the national area, but there is no Chinese Simplified setting, which is really not very friendly for Meng Xin, who does not understand traditional characters.
Gaming experience
If you've seen Norse mythology like Greek Mythology, the plot of God of War is easier for you to understand.
Image source: Sony PS official website
The protagonist of the game is called Credos, he has a glorious history of defeating the Greek gods, is a new generation of god of war, but the blood-stained past has allowed him to keep a distance from his wife and children, because of the sudden departure of his wife, Credos had to make a comeback, in order to fulfill his wife's last words, he took his son Atreus and embarked on a new journey in life as an ordinary person.
In the main quest of the game, Credos will encounter different NPCs and enemies, through the game's rich combat system, defeating enemies or interacting with NPCs, there is a chance to increase his combat attribute value, at the same time, strengthen equipment, items, weapons, but also improve attribute values. At the same time, son Atreus will also fight with you, and you can also increase auxiliary damage by strengthening his equipment. Finally defeat the strongest boss, Bader, and complete the main quest.
And the game content of "God of War" is not blindly fighting with the enemy, the game also has an achievement mechanism, decryption mechanism waiting for the player to complete, sometimes requires your wisdom to find the key to the breakthrough to complete the task, such as the use of the axe's frozen attribute to freeze the mechanism and other operations. Of course, if you think the main quest is not exciting enough, different NPCs also bring their own errand quests, and they can also get additional quest rewards after completing.
Toxic gas in the area ahead, using the ice properties of the axe to freeze the gas device
Credos's weapon is the Leviathan Axe in his hand, you can also get the classic Chaos Blade in the later stage, of course, the author's favorite is the axe, which can not only play combos in close quarters, but also be able to throw and injure the enemy from a distance, and most importantly, it can be recalled at any time, which is very Thor's feeling.
As the god of war, Kredos also has a lot of combos and skill points, which requires you to upgrade step by step to unlock to get it, because with the increase of NPC and BOSS levels in the later stages, it is necessary to learn stronger attributes and skills.
The most brilliant place in the game is naturally the smooth combat feel, in the process of fighting with the enemy, the battle system of "God of War" takes into account the feel and rhythm very well, at the same time, in the blind area of your perspective of the enemy, the game also has plenty of hints for you to quickly dodge, of course, you can also adjust the difficulty of the game to increase the fun of the battle (B station has the big guy God of War difficulty harmless pass challenge success).
In terms of operation, there is no problem with keyboards and controllers, since it is a previous generation of console games, the author here also recommends that you use gamepads to play more feelings (pro-test compatible Xbox controllers).
Game frame rate test: 4K ultra-high image quality average 78 frames
"God of War" PC version of the game optimization is indeed quite good, in the case of not opening DLSS, ploughing RTX308012GB wind chasing can run out of the average 78.3FPS frame rate, the minimum frame number also has 60 frames guaranteed, basically do not need to open DLSS can run smoothly.
Graphics card core load and power consumption is basically in a full load state, indicating that the performance pressure of the graphics card in 4K resolution is still relatively large, while the maximum use of video memory capacity reached 11.75GB, has been hovering on the edge of "burst video memory", if the same picture quality, using RTX308010GB to play, it is likely that there will be burst video memory, frame rate instability.
In addition, we also tested the frame rate performance in the DLSS "picture quality" and "balanced" gears, and as the translation resolution and graphics card performance pressure decreased, the average frame number performance of the game reached more than 100 frames, the frame rate fluctuation was smaller, and the fly in the ointment was that the picture fineness would be reduced.
During the game, the temperature performance of the graphics card is quite stable, the core temperature is between 64 and 66 degrees on average, and the core temperature is between 80 and 83 degrees on average, and the long-term 4K high-quality game is competent.
Exterior analysis
After actual measurement, the performance of RTX308012GB wind chasing in the game is remarkable, next let's look at the appearance, the iconic black and red color, supplemented by line embellishment, there are not too many lighting elements, it looks very low-key, the fan has a certain degree of recognition of the "wind" word LOGO, which allows us to recognize at a glance that this is a wind chasing series graphics card.
The metal integrated backplane has been improved and hollowed out in a large area at the tail to form a penetrating air duct, and the cold air directly penetrates the heat dissipation fins to enhance the performance of the graphics card.
The graphics card adopts an external dual 8Pin interface, which can provide 375W power consumption with PCIe's own power supply theory, which meets the power output of the RTX3080.
Next to the external interface is the Plowing LOGO lamp, which supports RGB lighting effects.
The video output interface is equipped with 3 DP1.4a interfaces and 1 HDMI2.1 interface, which supports up to 8K resolution output. The large-area hollow air duct design of the side plate increases the air flow on the side, accelerates the thermal conversion efficiency, and rapidly reduces the core temperature.
Three 90mm cooling fans, the blade-shaped fan blade adopts multi-groove design, and the angle is modified to achieve a 6% increase in inlet air volume at the same speed, bringing more cold air to the heat dissipation fins.
Dismantle the appreciation
The PCB layout of RTX308012GB is not much different from that of RTX308010GB, the same GA102 core, the difference is that there are 2 more memory particles around the core.
The RTX308012GB wind chaser adopts the GA102-220-A1 core, the TGP reaches 350W, has 8960 stream processors, and adds 2 more SM units than the RTX308010GB, and the video memory capacity is upgraded to 12GB to meet the needs of more 4K games with high video memory occupation.
On both sides of the core is a power supply module, and the RTX308012GB wind chasing is equipped with 10+7 power supply, of which the core part is 10 phases of power supply, and the memory part is 7 phases of power supply.
All power-powered DrMos chips are from Alpha & Omega, FBGA number 1YBG and 0X58, and are co-controlled by 3 PWM power-supply chips from uPI.
The 12 GDDR6X memory particles are from magnesium light, FBGA number IPT77-D8BWW, each memory particle has a capacity of 1GB, and the memory bit width is 32bits, which constitutes a total of 12GB of memory capacity and 384bit memory bit width.
The second generation of wind shield heat dissipation system, the core part of the use of large area copper plate, and the graphics card cover is closely fitted, the heat sink corresponding position is equipped with PCB components and thermal grease to assist in the heat dissipation of the memory particles.
Six nickel-plated heat conductive copper tubes pass directly through the large area of heat dissipation fins, assisting the core part in efficient heat dissipation, and the fins are tightly buckled and designed, and the workmanship feels quite sophisticated.
The fan model is T129215SU, 10 blades, and the working environment is DC12V 0.5A.
summary
With the continuous upgrading of PC hardware, the support for 4K resolution in PC games is now quite perfect, and the improvement of the game's picture quality and fineness on the one hand brings a refreshing experience to players, on the other hand, it brings more large and complex computing pressure to the graphics card.
As we all know, the role of the graphics card core is to process the screen information, and these screen information is stored in the video memory, the game is running at 4K resolution, the number of pixels that need to be processed is 4 times more than 1080P, and the amount of information that the video memory needs to store is naturally multiplied, so if you want to experience 4K games, there is no flagship graphics card with a large video memory.
Today we experienced this Gengsheng GeForceRTX308012GB wind chasing graphics card, equipped with GA102 flagship core based on Ampere architecture and 12GB large-capacity video memory, heat dissipation performance is also quite good, measured for a long time 4K high-quality game can still maintain cool temperature performance, if you are a player who pursues the ultimate game experience, then Cultivating GeForceRTX308012GB wind chasing is worth a wave of your consideration.