The Games of Christmas '08: GPU Performance Part II

by Michael "SKYMTL" Hoenig     |     December 23, 2008

Far Cry 2: DX9 GPU Performance


Even though Far Cry 2 has its own built-in benchmarking tool with some flythroughs and “action scenes”, we decided to record our own timedemo consisting of about 7 minutes of game time. It involves everything from run-and-gun fights to fire effects.


1440 X 900





1680 X 1050




Far Cry DX9 loves ATI hardware but there are some very interesting results lying under the façade; namely the fact that once again, many of these relatively inexpensive cards are able to play FC2 so well at quite high settings.
 
 
 

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