Sapphire Radeon HD4850 512MB Graphics Card Review

Crysis DX9

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.

For this test we recorded a custom timedemo on the Harbor level equaling about 20 minutes of game time through jungle, over water and in vehicles. All results were recorded with FRAPS over the course of the timedemo.

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Unfortunately for the Sapphire HD4850, it can’t seem to catch a break in Crysis DX9 not matter what resolution or if AA is turned on or off. It is always one small step behind the 9800GTX which leads us to believe that Nvidia’s drivers are better optimized for this game and ATI’s driver team has a bit of work left to be done.