The Games of Christmas '08: GPU Performance Part II

Crysis: Warhead DX9 GPU Performance

To benchmark Warhead, we recorded a 5 minute timedemo on the Ice level which included ranged and hand to hand combat.

1440 X 900



1680 X 1050



The performance of ATI in Crysis Warhead DX9 is actually quite impressive even though they come quite far from outright domination. It is unfortunate that we see once again that there is a massive performance drop off once we get to the HD 4650 and 9500 GT cards. It seems like neither of those GPUs is particularly well suited for gaming even though their prices are very close to those of their better-performing brethren.