ATI Radeon HD 4770 40nm GPU, $99 Graphics Return
Crysis v1.21
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If you're at all into enthusiast computing, the highly anticipated single player, FPS smash-hit Crysis, should require no introduction. Crytek's game engine produces some stunning visuals that are easily the most impressive real-time 3D renderings we've seen on the PC to date. The engine employs some of the latest techniques in 3D rendering like Parallax Occlusion Mapping, Subsurface Scattering, Motion Blur and Depth-of-Field effects, as well as some of the most impressive use of Shader technology we've seen yet. In short, for those of you that want to skip the technical jib-jab, Crysis is a beast of a game. We ran the full game patched to v1.21 with all of its visual options set to 'Very High' to put a significant load on the graphics cards being tested A custom demo recorded on the Ice level was used throughout testing. |
Crysis absolutely crushes all of the cards at the high-quality settings we used for testing, but the overall performance trend remains the same. The Radeon HD 4770 slides in just behind the 4850 and 9800 GTX+, but just ahead of the GeForce 9800 GT.
