ATI Radeon HD 3870
Crysis
About Crysis:
Crysis, a science fiction first person shooter set in the year 2020. You play as Lieutenant Jack Dunn, codename "Nomad", a United States Army Delta Force operative. The game starts out with a group of archaeologists doing research on an island in the South China Sea. As they were doing their research, minding their own business, they suddenly became overrun and taken captive by the North Korean Army. This is when the US Delta Forces were deployed to rescue the scientists. As the game goes on, you soon find out that the North Koreans are not the only threat on this island. Crysis, released towards the end of 2007, uses DirectX 10 and is currently the most demanding game out there.
Benchmarking Crysis:
For testing Crysis, we are going to be using a third party program very similar to FRAPS. This program is called "Benchmarking Tool for Crysis". With this we can tell it to render the timedemo multiple times and then generate a word file once completed with the results from every test. You can easily change game settings and how the benchmark will be performed.
For testing purposes we are going to be using the latest version of the game, version 1.1, which claims it enhances the performance of both single and multiple GPU processors.
Benchmarking Results:
Crysis |
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Medium Settings, with Anti-Aliasing Off : 1024 x 768 |
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Run |
Min FPS |
Max FPS |
Avg. FPS |
Overall Quality: Medium |
1 2 3 4 |
8.88 8.88 8.88 8.88 |
34.71 34.71 34.71 34.71 |
16.99 19.83 20.05 20.08 |
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Crysis |
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High Settings, with Anti-Aliasing Off : 1024 x 768 |
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Run |
Min FPS |
Max FPS |
Avg. FPS |
Overall Quality: High |
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1 2 3 4 |
0.48 0.48 0.48 0.48 |
31.26 31.26 31.26 31.26 |
14.03 15.75 15.99 15.85 |
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Crysis, one of the most demanding games on the market today, is an essential game to test when benchmarking video cards. Being so demanding, we were unfortunately unable to play the game on its highest settings. Setting the resolution to 1024x768, we obtained an average of 15.5FPS on high and 20FPS on medium. When I went through and played the game I set the resolution to 1280x768 and ran it on medium, it ran perfectly smooth and I only sensed it lag once in the first hour of playing.
Looking at how the BFG 8800GT OC performed in comparision to the ATI Radeon 3870. Both cards performed nearly the exact same. The BFG does have a small improvement over the ATI Radeon 3870 but by only less than 1FPS.
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