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The original Crysis raised the bar for PC gaming graphics in 2007 with stunningly detailed visuals that crippled even the fastest of rigs. Looking back at our first Crysis performance article, which was based on the game's demo, the fastest GPU available at the time (the GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB) struggled to average 30fps when running at 1920x1200 with high quality settings on DirectX 10.
Fast-forward to this day and Crytek has given us another opportunity to hammer some hardware with the arrival of Crysis 3. Like the second title, the third installment has been built with CryEngine 3, though that doesn't mean you should expect lousy PC features, as the engine has been updated with improved dynamic cloth and vegetation, better lighting and shadows, and plenty more.
Plus, PC gamers won't have to wait for graphical extras. Crysis 3 launched with high-resolution textures, DX11 support and plenty of customization options that set it apart from the diluted consoles builds. The result looks incredible and we get the feeling this will prove to be the game that folks who are heavily invested in multi-GPU setups have been waiting for. Here's hoping we aren't woefully disappointed.
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LukeDJ said:
I think that this is the first game that justifies me getting a second 670 for myself. Curse you, o mighty CryEngine 3.
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Alpha Gamer said:
Yeah, I'm surely not playing this game with my current setup.
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Bit disappointed with AMD's performance, let's hope for a quick driver updatae!
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Yeah pretty pedestrian from AMD, they seriously need to get cracking on their drivers. This review doesn't even take into account their poor frame latency which may degrade performance even further.
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Skidmarksdeluxe said:
As for me... I'll wait till the game hits basement bargain. I have no intention whatsoever of spending serious dough on upgrades for a single (not so hot) game.
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ghasmanjr said:
Holy waaaaaaaaahh. This game looks straight up sexy. Now I'm debating whether to buy three identical 1080p monitors (my current one is too expensive to buy two more) or stick with my 1920x1200 and get a second 680. I def can't afford both.
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1 person liked this |ghasmanjr said:
Btw, excellent benchmark review Steven!
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CPU benchmarks on Medium only? Come on, you guys said yourselves that the LOD and draw distance was too low on Medium, and those are the two most CPU-intensive parts. At least test the CPUs on high settings, if not Very High. Test at a lower resolution to avoid GPU-bound results.
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Souvs said:
Bf3 plays best on amd cards which has better graphics than crysis 3....screenies below
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The numbers throughout the review look low to me, Ive seen lots of other benches that suggest different results. Also it is all 16:10 ? we could use a nice 1080p column to those figures.
I've seen on youtube a video of a guy running 1080p at very high quality but no AA, and he gets in the mid 40s fps with a GTX 460 ? that's an old gpu, it only pushes ~900 gflop/s (compared to 2.5 tflop/s for an overclocked 660TI).
FXAA only uses ~2% overhead because it smooths edges on the final 2d output rather than true AA.. to me, I actually prefer it to MSAAx2 and think it is about the same as MSAAx4. MSAAx8 is going to ruin your graphics performance, even MSAAx4 halves the fps.
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What? No i5-3570k or i5-2500k listed? I would have guessed those are the two most popular cpus out there!
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Ray Marden said:
This setup isn't ideal for everybody, but the game runs great on CF 7950 OC (Gigabyte model.) It cost $600.00, but the current promotion gets you free copies of Crysis 3 and Tomb Raider. As I was buying these anyway, I tell myself these cards "only" cost $500.00. I sold off my old card for a $100.00 as well, further reducing the total cost.
I have not been experiencing the notorious micro-stutters and performance is terrific (2600K @ 5GHZ.) I have only crashed once, post-patch, and yesterday's beta drivers supposedly fix a crash due to the patch...
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Bf3 plays best on amd cards which has better graphics than crysis 3....screenies below
I dunno, I see the benches and everything but I have a friend who has duel 6950 I believe and he actually sold them for Nvidia 670's as Battlefield refused to stop stuttering or crashing, he has an x58 setup, 920, 8GB RAM and 900watt PSU.
Once he got the Nvidia's it stopped, incidentally, I know a few people who had trouble with crossfire setups and Battlefield, its strange though because as single cards, your right, ATI's play battlefield just as well if not better?
Guess it must be driver issues, he did update the drivers, in fact he completely re-installed windows xD
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Your CPU section is insufficient, and I haven't experienced any problems, whatsoever, running this game at 1080p, Very High, FXAA using two 670s in SLI (which are enough to maintain 60fps at these settings at all points in the game that aren't CPU-limited, which unfortunately is a good chunk of the game), on 314.07. Rerun your CPU tests at the lowest possible resolution, and display the differences between meduium and very high at 1080p...dropping to medium drops fps from 45 to 30 in some sections of the game, where CPU-limiting is clearly the case (GPU utilization at ~50% and fps below 60 equals CPU limiting). Additionally, I've not seen CPU utlization over 70%; not sure as though this game makes the best use of quads, either.
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JC713 said:
Bit disappointed with AMD's performance, let's hope for a quick driver updatae!Even with the beta driver it still gets hammered by nVidia. Yeah, hopefully the WHQL version will bring better performance
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Did I miss something because in beta I was playing on high comfortably with my 7870 crossfireX, was sitting on about 75 the hole time
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LNCPapa said:
Settings, resolution, sp vs mp, and final product textures.
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JC713 said:Bf3 plays best on amd cards which has better graphics than crysis 3....screenies below
that is your opinion.
What? No i5-3570k or i5-2500k listed? I would have guessed those are the two most popular cpus out there!TechSpot never includes them. They should though. I am curious about the 3570K @ 4.5 GHZ
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LNCPapa said:
I'd wager that number is within 1-2 fps of the 3770K @ 4.5 as is the 2600K @ 4.5
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siiix said:
Really lol , I guess you have not seen crysis1 and 2, this one blows compared to the 2 and that blows compared to 1... whats the point even of good grafix if 90% plays in the dark... worst crysis yet
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I've got a 920 at 4ghz and a gtx 480 o/c'd and it bends this game over and spanks it silly. It seems that if you have a high enough bandwidth graphics card a really good cpu clock speed is more important.
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JC713 said:I've got a 920 at 4ghz and a gtx 480 o/c'd and it bends this game over and spanks it silly. It seems that if you have a high enough bandwidth graphics card a really good cpu clock speed is more important.
what settings?
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JC713 said:I'd wager that number is within 1-2 fps of the 3770K @ 4.5 as is the 2600K @ 4.5
I bet so.
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"Assuming you clear that hurdle, you'll likely want dual GTX 680s or HD 7970 GHz Editions to play on very high at 1920x1200 or more."
But...but...but people told me multi-GPU setups @ 19x10 is stupid! You HAVE to have a resolution of 25x14 or higher!!! :|
+1
Their have been quite a few games @ 19x10 that have brought single GPU flagships to their knees over the years that could benefit from another card. If one card could always do the job at all single monitor resolutions, we wouldn't have had multi-gpu technology years before multi-monitor gaming setups came out.
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^^ did you just ask a question and answer it yourself?
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