Gigabyte 512MB 9800GT Author:  Jason Dumbaugh Date:  2009.02.16 Topic:  Video Provider:  Gigabyte Manufacturer:  Gigabyte

Now that we've finished with our canned benchmarks, we move on to our real-world benchmarks. We start with 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 uses DirectX 10 and is one of the most demanding game out there.

We used a program called Crysis Benchmarking Tool for Vista 64-bit (build 6115). We used high settings, and tested the game with three different resolutions, on no AA, 2xAA, 4xAA, and 8xAA aliasing.

The original output files can be seen here. A graphical representation of these results is provided below.

We can see here that game play is acceptable (~30FPS) using all of the 1024x768 resolution settings, as well as no AA and 2xAA during 1280x1024. Unfortunately, our game play starts to decrease during 4xAA in 1280x1024, and just goes downhill from there. Our results are right smack on the line (29.85 FPS) with no AA on 1680x1050, though our min drops as low as 17.97 FPS.

Bottom line: The Gigabyte 512MB 9800GT can play Crysis at 1024x768 on full 8xAA using high settings without a burp in performance.

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