NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580: A New Flagship Emerges
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. |
| 6870 | 6850 | 5870 | 5850 | 5970 | GTX 460 | GTX 470 | GTX 480 | GTX 580 | |
| % Increase | 84.7% | 95.8% | 62% | 69.8% | 21.7% | 77.3% | 71.5% | 48.1% | 30.8% |
Things tighten up in the multi-GPU FarCry 2 tests and the new GTX 580 SLI config is able to surpass the Radeon HD 5970 CrossFire setup at 1920x1200, but at the higher resolution, a pair of AMD's most powerful cards (at least currently), take the lead.
