I was wondering.
I have a pretty bad ass PC with i7 extreme edition, 16gb ddr3 and so on but my GPU is GTX480 and I was wondering if the game will work at all with it.

Appreciate your feedback!

you can try but honestly i think not, or maybe at the lowest settings and based on recent news if you want a new card go for a 970 or 980 or r9 290

I think the 480 will run TW3, but I wouldn't expect much TBO. Minimal specs call for a GTX 660 which is quite a bit more powerful than a 480. At this point the consoles have a GPU more powerful than the 480.

With your listed specs I'd suggest you to go with a GTX 970/980 G1 from Gigabyte. Either of those cards will play TW3 on max settings. I have the 970 G1 and with a very minimal overclock it's on par with a reference 980. With my current overclock it's at about 110% performance of a reference 980. 970's are most definitely the sweet spot for price:performance.

I say Gigabyte because of their gauntlet testing; basically you get a high binned chip. Out of the box mine was clocked @ 1405Mhz and goes to 1520Mhz with ease, no voltage increase and the temps atay around 62-64 degrees under high stress.

If you are on the fence about an upgrade, wait for TW3 release, try it out and if you are not satisfied, pick up a new graphics card. I'd stay with Nvidia too, TW3 is a GameWorks title.

Based on what, that is has a higher number? :)

GTX 480 is a tiny bit faster then GTX 570. Taking that into account, I'll say that you should be getting the same performance one would expect from a GTX 660.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/518?vs=660

I would not expect the same performance, similar, sure and don't forget we are talking about minimal specs here. If the 480 delivers what the OP is looking for, then he should be happy. If not, only an upgrade will fix that. Seeing how the 480 was released in 2010 and Fermi is long gone, I'd say that GPU has ran it's course.

You are right though, saying the 660 is quite a bit more powerful than a 480 might be a bit much. 660's are almost on par with a 580. When you add in features, power consumption and heat, the 660 is the better option over the 480. Should someone upgrade form a 480/580 to a 660? Of course not.

However, a GTX 970 or 980 would be a big upgrade over a 480 and would easily provide another 5 years of gaming.

Heat and power consumption has nothing to do about being able to play TW3 with a GTX 480. That's pure FPS. GTX 480 is on pair with the GTX 660 when it comes to FPS. His question was not about if the GTX 480 ran it's course, how much power it eats, how hot it gets or what GFX card we could recommend him. A simple question deserves a simple answer.

Which can not be answered until TW3 goes live. See my previous responses...

"I think the 480 will run TW3, but I wouldn't expect much TBO."

"If you are on the fence about an upgrade, wait for TW3 release, try it out and if you are not satisfied, pick up a new graphics card. I'd stay with Nvidia too, TW3 is a GameWorks title."

" If the 480 delivers what the OP is looking for, then he should be happy. If not, only an upgrade will fix that" I wasn't implying that heat and power consumption have anything to do with raw performance. If you re-read my response you will understand that it was a general comparison of the 480 and 660 showing how the 660, overall, is the better gpu. It had nothing to do with TW3 or frame rates. Or upgrades for that matter.

I'm not here to argue with someone over semantics and opinions. I simply gave the OP my opinion that's where I leave it.

@taltsahi : I hope everything works out for you.

It may struggle with tesselation features. The more recent cards are supposedly much faster on these tasks than the earlier ones.

I do agree that nominally a 480 is around the same performance as the 660, but specific performance does also depend on efficiency when dealing with 'expensive' calculations.

I'd expect the end result to be slightly worse than a 660, but still usable.... *if* the game uses less than 1.5GB. The 660 is usually a 2GB card.

My 430 got replaced because the 1GB limit was getting problematic, not especially because of low performance. (Though that day was fast approaching too).

I think I might still win for the lowest power graphics card to attempt to run W3.

All I have is my i7 Laptop, 8 GIG of ram and an Nvidia 525M.
I'll put settings to minimum and I'm sure I'll get 10-12 FPS which is plenty for me. Laptop res is only 1366x768 :)

Foregoing purchase until I see the benchmarks for GTX 560 Ti. Main reason why I didn't preorder the game. Poor me haha.

In this case I think the amount of VRAM is more important than raw power, the requirements for it have jumped a lot since the curgen consoles, and anything less than 2Gb will likely cause problems.

Currently, I have a laptop with:

Processor: Core i7-4710MQ 4-Core 2.5GHz

Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 860m (Meets the vertex and pixel shader requirement, has 4.1gb ram rather than 1.5gb that's required, yet still fails the minimum test as the processor does)

Ram: 8gb

It fails the minimum spec test according to system reqs lab, which is confusing me considering I can run Dragon Age Inquisition at 1920 x 1080 and with high settings. Considering I bought this laptop last year for £700 - £750 or so, I considered it quite a good spec, and people are complaining about a downgrade . . . I imagine many others have a worse spec than me.

Anyhow, I sent a support ticket to GoG, which was perhaps stupid on my part, asking if they think it'll run and whether a refund would be possible if I chanced it. As of yet, still waiting to hear back before I purchase. If not, I'll probably just buy Dead State in the sale.

(Oh, it's worth noting that the game-debate site linked says I could run it. The problem is that I had to set my graphics card to GTx 880m rather than the 860m. It does beat the processor requirement though.)

And the GTX 480 has 2GB.

If you go with these benchmarks, it will be borderline unplayable on high settings, maybe if you try 720p and lower the details a bit you can get a smooth game.