Benchmarks: Crysis Warhead, Crysis 2



Using the medium quality preset -- otherwise known as "gamer" -- with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering disabled, we managed to achieve reasonable performance with many of the budget cards when playing at 1280x800, 1440x900 and 1680x1050 resolutions.

Rendering 57fps at 1680x1050, Nvidia'southward GTX 460 was the quickest card tested in Crysis, edging alee of the Hard disk drive 6790 nearly 3fps. Performance declines quickly later the 6790 with the 6770 averaging 47fps, which is about 2% faster than the more expensive GTX 550 Ti.

The GTS 450 and Hard disk drive 6750 managed to average 40fps and at $110 they were 30% slower than the GTX 460 while existence 27% cheaper. Later on the HD 6670'southward 32fps showing, functioning dips below the 30fps threshold, making it difficult to recommend the cards for gaming.



For reasons unknown to u.s., Crysis 2 is still a DX9-only title, but Crytek even so reportedly plans to release a DX11 patch sometime this year. The game has been heavily criticized for existence a console port and that is somewhat evidenced by the performance seen in a higher place.

About all of the low-finish GPUs presented playable operation at 1280x800 with anti-aliasing disabled (the PS3 and Xbox 360 are express to 1280x720 and no AA). Even the GT 430 mustered 33fps, showing how underwhelming the GPU ability of today's consoles is.

The performance does slip a little at 1680x1050, but the in a higher place trends remain much the same. The GTX 460 was once again the fastest while the HD 6790 was xv% faster than the GTX 550 Ti. The Hard disk 6770 fared 9% better than the Hard disk 6750 and 21% worse than the HD 6790.

The Radeon HD 5670 and HD 6570 delivered practically the same numbers with a picayune over 30fps, while the HD 5570 offered only 28fps. Things degraded to a completely unplayable state when looking at the GT 520 and Hard disk 6450, with each squeezing out a dismal 12fps.