Dell Alienware Area-51 Core i7-980 X Infused Gaming PC
Far Cry 2, Crysis
If there were ever a game title that we'd call "long in the tooth" for benchmarking purposes, it would have to be Crysis. Ever-popular with snarky discussion board lurkers, looking to jab into the conversation about literally any tech-related product with the tired, exhausted, seemingly age-old question, "but can it play Crysis?"; is the epitome of worn-out. Regardless, both Crysis v1.2 and FarCry 2 are still murderously demanding on overall system performance, so we've got those numbers for you here as well with the Area-51 pushing the pixels.
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Like the original, FarCry 2 is one of the more visually impressive games to be released on the PC to date. Courtesy of the Dunia game engine developed by Ubisoft, FarCry 2's game-play is enhanced by advanced environment physics, destructible terrain, high resolution textures, complex shaders, realistic dynamic lighting, and motion-captured animations. We benchmarked the graphics cards in this article with a fully patched version of FarCry 2, using one of the built-in demo runs recorded in the "Ranch" map. Of the three available, we used the Ranch (Short) option. The test results shown here were run at a resolution of 1920x1200 with 8X AA and Ultra High Quality presets enabled concurrently. |
* Alienware Area-51 - 2560X1600 4XAA: 79 fps
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Crytek's game engine visuals in Crysis are some of the most impressive real-time 3D renderings we've seen on a computer screen even as of today. 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 an impressive use of Shader technology. The single player, FPS Crysis is a smash-hit, and rightfully so. We patched the game to v1.2 with all of the game's visual settings to 'High' at 1920x1200 resolution to put a significant load on the systems' graphics engines being tested. |
* Alienware Area-51 - 2560X1600 4XAA: 86 fps
Now you know why Crysis gets the wrap it does in the media and in online discussion threads. Even with identical graphics subsystems, the 6-core powered Alienware Area-51 posts a 23+ percent gain in performance over the quad-core based Origin Genesis. This performance edge is driven virtually exclusively by the additional CPU power under the Area-51's hood. Finally, even at High Quality settings, with 4X AA turned on at 2560X1600 resolution, the Area-51 clips through Crysis taking down rendered frames with M16-class fire power.
