AMD Radeon HD 6870 & 6850 Graphics Cards Debut
FarCry 2 Performance
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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. The test results shown here were run at various resolutions with 4X AA enabled. |
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6870 |
6850 |
5870 |
5850 |
GTX 470 |
GTX 460 |
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% Increase |
84.7% |
95.8% |
61.9% |
69.8% |
71.5% |
77.3% |
Superior multi-GPU scaling by the Radeon HD 6800 series parts allowed them to take the lead in the FarCry 2 benchmark, however. We checked in with AMD to see what kind of enhancements were made to CrossFire that could account for the enhanced scaling and were told the underlying CrossFire implementations were identical. These numbers were repeatable though,
