Far Cry 2

Publisher: Ubisoft

Far Cry 2 is the latest first person shooter from Ubisoft, and while it continues the Far Cry franchise that Crytek started in 2004, this game is built on its own in-house engine and has no association - other than its name - to anything Crytek has worked on or is working on now.

The game uses DirectX 10.1 to improve anti-aliasing performance and quality. The improvements are made by reading the multisampled depth buffer in a single pass - something that was only introduced officially with DirectX 10.1. However, Ubisoft has also made the enhancements available to Nvidia hardware as well through a DirectX 10 extension.

We used a retail version of the game and the in-built gameplay demo set to Ultra-Very High settings under DirectX 10.


It's a great result for AMD here, as Far Cry 2 is surprisingly unfavourable to the Intel CPU as it drops quite far down the table, between the other K8 CPUs and below the lower clocked Phenom tri-core even. The Intel E5200 still outperforms the older AMD Athlon X2 4850e, but it's several frames per second off the Athlon X2 7550.

In fact, both the AMD Kumas perform exceptionally well here - the 2.5GHz 7550 stretching a lead even over the 3.1GHz 6000+ and the 7750 tops the table stretching out several frames per second over the Intel CPU and the similarly clocked, older Athlon X2 K8.


The result is pretty much the same between the two graphics cards, although the Athlon X2 7750 nudges out a slightly further lead from six to seven frames per second over the Intel E5200, even despite the Intel moving up the stable ahead of the 5200+. Again, like before, both of the Kumas perform excellently here, even in clock to clock performance.