NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Review

Far Cry 2 (DX9)

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 5 minutes of game time. It involves everything from run-and-gun fights to fire effects. The built-in benchmarking too was then set up to replay the timedemo and record framerates


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Truth be told, many people have incorrectly stated that Far Cry 2 has been an NVIDIA-optimized game, but ATI has drastically improved performance in this game through several driver revisions. Nevertheless, the GTX 480 makes the single GPU ATI cards look like last-generation models by posting some seriously impressive numbers. It just can’t come close to the HD 5970, and actually loses to the GTX 295 in some cases.