ASUS Matrix & Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD 4870, 4850
Crysis
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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 |
Running Crysis at its "Very High" graphics setting puts a hurting on all of the cards we tested. The two 4870s are nearly neck and neck, although both beat the reference model. The Matrix 4850 also does well here but none of the Radeons can touch the GTX 280.
