Battlefield 5 will surely come free with a new GTX 1180 as DICE ditch AMD for Nvidia

Nvidia has announced that GeForce graphics cards will be the PC platform of choice for EA and DICE’s Battlefield V... and if you don’t get it free when you buy a next-gen GTX 1180 I’ll eat Jacob’s neatly topiaried Japanese desk grass.

The announcement sees the franchise moving from Radeon to GeForce, and Nvidia has already got some of its own engineers in place, working with the the Battlefield V devs at DICE. As well as meaning there will be day zero Game Ready drivers in place for the PC version when it launches on October 19, Nvidia has also said it’s “working on integrating cutting-edge technologies, optimizing performance, and creating the definitive PC experience.”

The best Battlefield V experience will surely be on the best ultrawide gaming monitor, right?

Unfortunately that probably means it’s going to be too early for it to be one of the first games to launch taking advantage of the new Nvidia RTX real-time raytracing technology. And given that Metro: Exodus has been delayed until next year it’s looking increasingly unlikely that we’ll actually see the RTX goodness appearing in-game this side of 2019.

There is a whole lot of vegetation in the Battlefield V trailers we’ve seen so far, so maybe there’ll be some lovely Turf Effects dropped in there to really cripple your frame rates...

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https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia-gtx-1180-battlefield-5