Palit Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB Video 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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I think I am sounding like a broken record already but even though this is a very Nvidia-centric game, the new ATI card is able to overcome some CPU bottlenecks at lower resolutions and eventually comes out smelling like roses. Its performance is very impressive in Crysis considering the stunts it seems ATI’s driver team has had to pull for adequate framerates.