Crysis is a science fiction first-person shooter
developed by Crytek. Crysis uses Microsoft's new API, DirectX 10 for graphics
rendering, and includes the new engine—the CryEngine 2—that is the successor to
Far Cry's CryEngine. CryEngine 2 is among the first engines to use the DirectX
10 framework of Windows Vista, but can also run using DirectX 9, both on Vista
and Windows XP.
 Crysis 1.2 1600x1200 HQ
- AA/AF |
| 1600x1200 4xAA |
Points |
Ranking |
| Palit HD4870 X2
2GB |
36.8 |
   |
| Asus EAH3870 X2
1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A |
21.8 |
|
| Asus EAH3870 X2
1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A (Crossfire) |
27.95 |
|
| MSI
R3870X2-T2D1G-OC |
25.2 |
|
 Asus
EAH4850 HTDI/512M |
24.7 |
   |
| 1600x1200 8xAA |
Points |
Ranking |
| Palit HD4870 X2
2GB |
37.2 |
|
| Asus EAH3870 X2
1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A |
28.2 |
|
| Asus EAH3870 X2
1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A (Crossfire) |
34.52 |
|
| MSI
R3870X2-T2D1G-OC |
28.8 |
|
| Asus
EAH4850 HTDI/512M |
26.9 |
|
| 1900x1200 4xAA |
Points |
Ranking |
| Palit HD4870 X2
2GB |
33.8 |
|
| Asus EAH3870 X2
1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A |
20.3 |
|
| Asus EAH3870 X2
1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A (Crossfire) |
24.69 |
|
| MSI
R3870X2-T2D1G-OC |
14.5 |
|
| Asus
EAH4850 HTDI/512M |
18 |
|
| 1900x1200 8xAA |
Points |
Ranking |
| Palit HD4870 X2
2GB |
34.2 |
|
| Asus EAH3870 X2
1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A |
24 |
|
| Asus EAH3870 X2
1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A (Crossfire) |
30.88 |
|
| MSI
R3870X2-T2D1G-OC |
24.3 |
|
| Asus
EAH4850 HTDI/512M |
23.4 |
| |
The Asus
EAH4850 videocard exhibits some strange behaviour with 4xAA modes, seeming to
prefer 8x modes instead. At these settings it's about as fast as a single 3870
X2, but only the Palit HD 4870 X2 can really manage playable settings at
1920x1200 with 8xAA.
Conclusions: HD 4850 is leaner, meaner and best
of.... Cheaper!
Having
intense competition in the mid-range sector produces some of the most exciting
graphics cards to drool over. With the Asus EAH4850 we have a videocard that's
had to pass through trial by enemy fire to be competitive in today's market.
The Radeon HD 4850 GPU is designed to be the
economical member of the 48XX family, and it fills that role well. Costing about
$200, it's not much more expensive than
most midrange system components, making it easy to fit inside a sub-$1000 gaming
PC.
In the benchmarks the Asus EAH4850 was often faster than
the Radeon HD 3870 X2, without any of the driver profile malarky dealing with a
multi-GPU setup often involves. nVidia's 9600GT barely holds its own even when
paired in SLI, against the Asus EAH4850 graphics card.
Ultimately the Asus EAH4850 is an economical videocard
with moderate overclocking capability for the gamer who wants to play the newest
games at reasonable resolutions. There's not quite enough OC head room in it to
turn it into a Radeon HD 4870 X2... but enough of a boost for a noticeable
improvement when running Crysis at max image quality settings. Again, midrange
videocards like the Radeon HD 4850 tend to be pretty good overclockers, usually
sharing the same architecture as the high-end cards in the same family, but with
lowered clock & memory speeds.
Really, the Asus EAH4850's closest competition comes in
the form of nVidia's Geforce 9800 GTX+ and GTX 260 graphics cards - we're
looking forward to running tests on them, so stay tuned to PCSTATS. Compared to
some of last year's flagship cards and the fastest card money can buy now, the Asus EAH4850 has
proven itself to be outstanding value for money.
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Crysis 1.2 - AA/AF
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