Sapphire HD3870 512MB TOXIC Edition Review

by Michael "SKYMTL" Hoenig     |     May 18, 2008

Crysis

Crysis is one of those games that comes along every now and then and totally humbles every graphics card on the market. While some people have pointed towards shoddy programming, it is undeniable that this game looks ridiculously good when played at higher settings.

NEW TEST: For this test we recorded a custom timedemo on the Sphere level equaling about 15 minutes of game time. All results were recorded with FRAPS over the course of the timedemo. All settings were set at High and DX9 mode was used.


1280 X 1024





1600 X 1200





1920 X 1080




Crysis has never been a strong point for ATI cards and we can see this here again that even an overclocked HD3870 just can’t put up with the strains of this game. Even at 1280x1024 without AA turned on, the Sapphire card struggles to provide playable framerates. In this case we would recommend than a user tweaks the graphics settings a bit more to get a setting somewhere between medium and high details.
 
 
 

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