ATI Radeon X1K Refresh: X1950 XTX, X1900 XT 256MB, X1650 Pro, and X1300 XT

Name: ATI Radeon X1K Refresh: X1950 XTX, X1900 XT 256MB, X1650 Pro, and X1300 XT - Page 9
Brand: ATI

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, August 23, 2006, 12:00 AM EDT

X1300 / X1650 FarCry v1.33

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X1300 XT / X1650 Pro Performance Comparisons with FarCry v1.33

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FarCry

If you've been on top of the gaming scene for some time, you probably know that FarCry was one of the most visually impressive games to be released on the PC in the last few years. Courtesy of its proprietary engine, dubbed "CryEngine" by its developers, FarCry's game-play is enhanced by Polybump mapping, advanced environment physics, destructible terrain, dynamic lighting, motion-captured animation, and surround sound. Before titles such as Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 hit the scene, FarCry gave us a taste of what was to come in next-generation 3D gaming on the PC. We benchmarked the graphics cards in this article with a fully patched version of FarCry using a custom-recorded demo run taken in the "Catacombs" area checkpoint. The tests were run at various resolutions with 4X AA and 16X aniso enabled concurrently.

Sapphire's Radeon X1300 XT OC Edition and Radeon X1650 Pro were right on top of each other in our custom FarCry benchmark. Once again, neither card was able to approach the performance of the more expensive GTO or 7600 GT, but for under a hundred bucks, either card would be a nice upgrade from integrated graphics.