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Crysis 2

Publisher: EA

From our Crysis 2 Review:

'When we played Crysis 2 on the consoles, we honestly could have taken or left it. Only on the PC do we feel comfortable recommending and replaying Crytek’s best game yet – and its first chance of matching technical prowess with good game design. '

Crysis 2 is incredibly taxing on all components in a system, from CPU to GPU, so we've chosen to test without AA to generate meaningful and playable frame rates above 1,920 x 1,080. Otherwise, we run the game at its highest 'Ultra' settings and with both the DX11 tessellation pack and high-resolution texture packs installed.

We use the Adrenaline Crysis 2 Benchmark Tool to automate our testing, but capture results in-game using FRAPs as the tool's ability to record minimum frame-rates is inconsistent.

We test using the Times Square time demo, recording minimum and average frame rates from frame 1000 to frame 4900 of the time demo, with the result being the average over 3 runs.

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Crysis 2

1,920 x 1,080, 0x AA, Edge AA on, Ultra Settings, DX11, High Res textures

  • HIS Radeon HD 7970 3GB X Turbo
  • AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB GHz Edition
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB with Boost
  • AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB
  • EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1GB SSC
  • AMD Radeon HD 7770 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7750 1GB
    • 66
    • 85
    • 63
    • 80
    • 59
    • 91
    • 59
    • 78
    • 57
    • 75
    • 56
    • 72
    • 52
    • 69
    • 48
    • 64
    • 45
    • 58
    • 45
    • 54
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    • 54
    • 39
    • 48
    • 28
    • 36
    • 24
    • 30
    • 21
    • 25
    • 20
    • 25
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  • Minimum
  • Average

Crysis 2

2,560 x 1,600, 0x AA, Edge AA on, Ultra Settings, DX11, High Res textures

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 4GB
  • HIS Radeon HD 7970 3GB X Turbo
  • AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB GHz Edition
  • AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB with Boost
  • AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB
  • EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1GB SSC
  • AMD Radeon HD 7770 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7750 1GB
    • 58
    • 74
    • 36
    • 48
    • 33
    • 46
    • 30
    • 43
    • 29
    • 40
    • 28
    • 37
    • 27
    • 39
    • 25
    • 36
    • 22
    • 29
    • 22
    • 27
    • 21
    • 28
    • 20
    • 26
    • 12
    • 17
    • 12
    • 16
    • 10
    • 13
    • 10
    • 13
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10
20
30
40
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60
70
80
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  • Minimum
  • Average

Crysis 2

5,760 x 1,080, 0x AA, Edge AA on, Ultra Settings, DX11, High Res textures

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 2GB
  • HIS Radeon HD 7970 3GB X Turbo
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB GHz Edition
  • AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB with Boost
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB
  • EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1GB SSC
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7770 1GB
    • 37
    • 47
    • 20
    • 26
    • 18
    • 30
    • 18
    • 24
    • 17
    • 29
    • 16
    • 27
    • 14
    • 25
    • 14
    • 18
    • 14
    • 18
    • 13
    • 23
    • 12
    • 18
    • 10
    • 16
    • 8
    • 11
    • 1
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    • 0
    • 0
0
10
20
30
40
50
Frames Per Second
  • Minimum
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