Crysis 2 - DX9 vs DX11 - 6990 vs GTX590
Introduction and What's New
Published: 17th July 2011 | Source: Zotac | Price: |
Introduction
When Crysis 2 first appeared we were all a bit disappointed in the graphical splendour on offer. Crytek had, with the original Crysis, given us a taste of the future and brought plentiful eye-candy.
Crysis 2 though was held back significantly on PCs by its console roots. As the current raft of gaming consoles are now ageing somewhat the original engine only took advantage of the DirectX 9 featureset. Now though we have the v1.9 patch for Crysis 2 which enables DirectX 11 features and so it finally looks like a cutting edge PC Game.
So what's new?
- Tessellation + Displacement Mapping
- High Quality HDR Motion Blur
- Realistic Shadows with Variable Penumbra
- Sprite Based Bokeh Depth of Field
- Parallax Occlusion Mapping
- Particles Motion Blur, Shadows and Art Updates
- Water Rendering improvements and using Tessellation + Displacement Mapping
As you can see there is a raft of improvements all designed to make the whole thing far more realistic with Tessellation enabling far greater detail and the adjustments to shadows and depth of field helping to put you in the game.
Obviously a High-Res texture pack and DirectX 11 features really up the ante as far as recommended specs go. Crytek now recommend a 1.5GB DX11 GPU, Quad Core CPU, 8GB of RAM and SSD. Quite a step up from the standard specifications but this is a huge step up in quality.
Let's grab a look at some screens. Starting with DirectX 9...
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3: I am probable jumping the gun on AMD's Bulldozer, I really like it and am hoping it will be outperform SB once AM4 comes out and they can actually be maximized to there fullest potential.
I would highly doubt that Bulldozer would compete with Intel's top of the line. If you are expecting it to then be prepared to be horribly let down. Do your research and you will find that AMD no longer compete for the top spot. And, they haven't since 2006 (the FX Opteron rebadges for $500 or so). The reason is simple. All of that R&D would have left them broke. So they wound down production and went back to doing what they had always done, make cheap processors for Joe Public.
Bulldozers are pretty much the same technology as Magny Cours. Again, do your research. There's no way they could compete with a Sandybridge version of a Xeon and nor are they supposed to.
Quite ironic then that Dell sell more desktops than any other manufacturer combined.
I prefer whoever has the fastest card for the lowest ammount of cash. Simple as that, I couldn't care if Fanny Industries made it.
I would highly doubt that Bulldozer would compete with Intel's top of the line. If you are expecting it to then be prepared to be horribly let down. Do your research and you will find that AMD no longer compete for the top spot. And, they haven't since 2006 (the FX Opteron rebadges for $500 or so). The reason is simple. All of that R&D would have left them broke. So they wound down production and went back to doing what they had always done, make cheap processors for Joe Public.
Bulldozers are pretty much the same technology as Magny Cours. Again, do your research. There's no way they could compete with a Sandybridge version of a Xeon and nor are they supposed to.
Dell Plain and simply has terrible hardware and how there Desktops are put together are just horrible, that is a simple fact.
Bulldozer is designed to compete with Sandy Bridge, originally it was set to actually out perform Sandy Bridge(1155 not 2011) I know it is not designed to compete with SB-E from what I have heard that will be Scorpio's Job.
A top end AMD won't compete with a top end Intel. I doubt that will change any time soon, especially with the lost fortunes RE - Radeon 6 series. I mean, I can see them selling a lot, but nowhere near the 5xxx Radeon sales.
I can actually see Bulldozer shooting down SB once AM4 comes out and there performance is optimized.
Dell Plain and simply has terrible hardware and how there Desktops are put together are just horrible, that is a simple fact.
Yes, but the services and products they provide for businesses are of far higher quality.
Again, Bulldozer is based around Magny Cours, which won't touch Sandybridge. I would imagine price will be the key to its success. (edit and the onboard GPU of course !)
I may be pleasantly surprised, but I doubt it. AMD are now after the sectors of the market where the most money is to be made. Laptop CPUs, good onboard GPUs and so on. The enthusiast market is but a boil on the bum compared to the mass consumer market.
They just don't have the cash to put into the research mate. Seriously, staying atop Intel for three years nearly saw them bankrupt. They were selling CPUs at £400 odd a go and making hardly anything. Intel, however, threw money down the drain for those three years and didn't even break a sweat (those utterly awful P4s, see, all of them). It was only Core 2 Duo that got them back to the top and they haven't looked back since.
Yes, but the services and products they provide for businesses are of far higher quality.
This I can back up. Not only are their business systems stable (along with servers and networking equipment)...but they do some brilliant deals for bulk buyers (such as colleges and large businesses).
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