Publisher: Electronic Arts
Crysis is seen by many as the poster boy for DirectX 10 and it will make your system cry, quite literally – it’s a monster! It doesn’t come as much of a surprise then, that the graphics are something special – they’re above and beyond anything we’ve ever seen in a PC game.
We tested the game using the 64-bit executable under DirectX 10 mode with the 1.21 patch applied. We used a custom timedemo recorded from the Laws of Nature level which is more representative of gameplay than the built-in benchmark that renders things much faster than you're going to experience in game. We found that around 27-33 fps in our custom timedemo was sufficient enough to obtain a playable frame rate through the game. It's a little different to other games in that the low frame rates still appear to be quite smooth.
We set all of the in-game details to High and forced 8x anisotropic filtering in the driver menu as there is currently no support for it in game. We tested at 1,280 x 1,024, using 0x, 2x and 4x anti-aliasing, 1,680 x 1,050 using 0x and 4xAA, 1,920 x 1,200 using 0x and 2xAA and 2,560 x 1,600 with 0xAA and 2xAA. By extensively testing using anti-aliasing in very high resolutions in conjunction to Very High quality, we'll be pushing even the bleeding edge hardware on test to the limit.
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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
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MSI GTX 285 HydroGen OC
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 896MB
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Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB Atomic
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ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB
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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
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MSI GTX 285 HydroGen OC
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 896MB
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Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB Atomic
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ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB
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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
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MSI GTX 285 HydroGen OC
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 896MB
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Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB Atomic
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ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB
Frames Per Second
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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
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MSI GTX 285 HydroGen OC
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 896MB
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Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB Atomic
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ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB
Frames Per Second
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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
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MSI GTX 285 HydroGen OC
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
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Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB Atomic
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 896MB
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ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB
Frames Per Second
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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
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MSI GTX 285 HydroGen OC
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
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Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB Atomic
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 896MB
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ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB
Frames Per Second
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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
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MSI GTX 285 HydroGen OC
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
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Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB Atomic
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 896MB
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ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB
Frames Per Second
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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
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MSI GTX 285 HydroGen OC
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
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Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB Atomic
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 896MB
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ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB
Frames Per Second
With the slightly lower 'High' settings, the MSI GTX 285 HydroGen OC performed admirably maintaining playable framerates right up until 1,920 x 1,200 2xAA 16xAF although the 22fps minimum here might be a little too slow for some.
However just as with
Crysis at 'Very High' settings, there was next to no difference between the MSI GTX 285 HydroGen OC and the stock GTX 285 so clearly
Crysis doesn't benefit massively from increased core and memory speeds.
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