Crysis

Publisher: Electronic Arts

We tested the game using the 64-bit executable under and DirectX 10 with the 1.21 patch applied. We used a custom time demo recorded on the Harbour map which is more representative of gameplay than the built-in benchmark that renders things much faster than you're going to experience in game.

For our testing, we set all the settings to High. Because of how intense the game is, we tested with both anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering disabled at resolutions above 1,680 x 1,050 for the time being. There is currently no support for anisotropic filtering in the game, but you can still force it from the driver control panel.


Gaming performance is just a single frame per second better for the Gene, but even when overclocked with 200MHz extra CPU performance between them, the Gigabyte cannot muster anything more than the same anyway.

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. We used a retail version of the game patched to version 1.02, and used the in-built "Action" gameplay demo set to Ultra-Very High settings under DirectX 10.



In Far Cry 2 at stock speeds the Gene makes a clear lead by several fps in both average and minimum frame rates, and while overclocked the Gigabyte board is still better thanks to its faster memory and CPU, the difference is less implying an inherently faster core performance for the Gene, it's just lacking that extra grunt.