MSI N285GTX Superpipe 2G PCIe Graphics card

 

 
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.
 
 
 
 

Oblivion from Bethseda is now an ‘old’ game by today’s standards, but is still one of the most visually taxing games out there. The benchmark was run in the wilderness with all settings set to the maximum possible. Bloom was used in preference to HDR. The test was run five times with the average FPS then being deduced.

 
 
 

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.
 


 
 
Results Analysis
 
While the card could not pull any significant punches in Far Cry 2, both Crysis and Oblivion showed the GTX285 Superpipe 2G to be the single GPU of choice. The card increased it’s lead as the resolutions were increased, proving the extra GB of GDDR3 does come in handy when gaming at high resolutions with extra filtering added. Crysis usually cripples single GPU’s at 2560×1600 with 4xAA with frames dropping to single figures however, the GTX285 2G just about managed to produce some playable frame rates.
 
Let’s move on to the conclusion…