Have any devs commented on if the game happened to be running smoother than DA:I?

Who knows. PC ports are quite gamble lately. You never know when you run into another "Arkham Knight". And a good engine is no guarantee at all - Dishonored 2 with Id Tech 5 as its engine was so badly ported, it couldn't sustain 60 fps on any setting in 1080p on gtx 1070.

You can see it has the same cutscene-stutter present in DA:I in one of the trailers right when the ship rises into the air. It's a frost-bite thing.

Inquisition was poorly optimized on launch, knowing Bioware MEA is guaranteed to have issues when it comes out.

Wasn't Doom idtech 6?

I didn't pick it up myself, but it seemed to have pretty good reviews in how well it ran.

AMD cards always suck ass no matter the meme features it has. Daily reminder that developers use nvidia cards to create their games which is why their cards run better.

Yep, that's why a Fury X almost beats a supposedly "way superior" and "next-gen" 1080 in more than one DX12 test and game, right?

The reality is that AMD cards sucks at DX11 for a certain technical reason that DX12 fixes (that's why they gain so much advantage when switching to DX12), plus they've async compute support via hardware. NVIDIA on the other hand...you could say that they've victims of their own success. Their drivers are so OP at DX11 that they reach almost DX12 levels of performance, but their async compute support sucks. And IMO, good DX11 drivers doesn't explain why their cards doesn't benefit more from what's possibly the most substantial DX version change of the entire history of those libraries.

If they keep it that way, Vega may even take the lead on the enthusiast GPU market. By not showing the 1080 Ti when they were supposed to show it (in CES), you can tell they're scared.

BTW, I'm gonna buy a new PC this summer, and I haven't even decided my parts yet. I've also owned both NVIDIA and AMD GPU's, so I'm completely brand-neutral.

I know, right? With a 660Ti the Redclife area had an average 40fps. Now with a 1070 the place is still at 40fps.
In general the game did alright, however there were conflicting areas like that one with crap performance.

All I care about is whether they are gonna optimize for the Scorpio

no info yet,
but it dependes what you call "smooth" 20 fps? 30 fps? 60 fps?
for me, smooth is 60 fps, and DAI runs at 40-50 fps with I7 4790, 16 gb ram and gtc 970 3gb vram, so
if you want "smooth" 60 fps, at high-very high settings, 1080p,minimum is gtx 980
this game has large detailed maps, shados, particle effects,
this game comes out this year, 2017, a gtx 970 is 3 years old, so, aim for somemthing better than that

the recommended requirments for DAI are below the real recommended

I hope they release the system requirements asap