Sapphire 4850×2 2GB PCIe Graphics Card
Ubisoft has developed a new engine specifically for Far Cry 2, called Dunia, meaning “world”, “earth” or “living” in Parsi. The engine takes advantage of multi-core processors as well as multiple processors and supports DirectX 9 as well as DirectX 10. Running the Far Cry 2 benchmark tool the test was run 5 times with the highest and lowest scores being omitted and the average calculated from the remaining 3.
Call of Duty 4 is a stunning DirectX 9.0c based game that really looks awesome and has a very full feature set. With lots of advanced lighting, smoke and water effects, the game has excellent explosions along with fast game play. Using the in-built Call Of Duty features, a 10-minute long game play demo was recorded and replayed on each of the GPU’s using the /timedemo command a total of 5 times. The highest and lowest FPS results were then removed, with an average being calculated from the remaining 3 results.
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Crysis is without doubt one of the most visually stunning and hardware-challenging games to date. By using CrysisBench – a tool developed independently of Crysis – we performed a total of 5 timedemo benchmarks using a GPU-intensive pre-recorded demo. To ensure the most accurate results, the highest and lowest benchmark scores were then removed and an average calculated from the remaining three.
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Results Analysis
In both Call of Duty 4 and Far Cry 2, the 4850×2 blows the GTX280 out of the water bettering it by some margin, even with an increase in resolution and AA/AF are added. Crysis remains a weakness for ATI though with the GTX280 winning hands down in that benchmark. Texture corruption was also apparent in Crysis testing on the 4850×2 which again, is most likely due to the drivers.
Let’s head over to the conclusion where I cast my overview on the 4850×2…
