Crysis, ok. Prey, no.
I am making this post for one reason. Stop using Prey as a benchmark for PC gaming.
Prey is not by any means useful to benchmark and is not even used as a competitively played game for the PC in any league as far as I'm aware. I understand that Crysis is seen as the 'holy grail' of high end PC graphics, but Prey is anything but. May I suggest if you were to take 2 games and only 2 games as a benchmark use Call of Duty 4 and Crysis. For the sake of supplementation go with Unreal Tournament 3, Team Fortress 2, and World in Conflict in that order; as UT3/TF2 are played competitively so naturally graphics cards are catered toward that market. From what I can tell WiC is just a great benchmark as is Half-Life2: Lost Coast, but are older and not as popular.
If for no other reason I base my facts, take into consideration Xfire. If you go onto their site and lookup the most played games you will see World of Warcraft and COD4 in the top 2. WoW, is older and not hard to max graphics so is naturally not a good benchmark, COD4 however is new and demanding, while Prey is never to be seen on that list.
So please, please TH, stop benchmarking Prey as a primary Game.
I am making this post for one reason. Stop using Prey as a benchmark for PC gaming.
Prey is not by any means useful to benchmark and is not even used as a competitively played game for the PC in any league as far as I'm aware. I understand that Crysis is seen as the 'holy grail' of high end PC graphics, but Prey is anything but. May I suggest if you were to take 2 games and only 2 games as a benchmark use Call of Duty 4 and Crysis. For the sake of supplementation go with Unreal Tournament 3, Team Fortress 2, and World in Conflict in that order; as UT3/TF2 are played competitively so naturally graphics cards are catered toward that market. From what I can tell WiC is just a great benchmark as is Half-Life2: Lost Coast, but are older and not as popular.
If for no other reason I base my facts, take into consideration Xfire. If you go onto their site and lookup the most played games you will see World of Warcraft and COD4 in the top 2. WoW, is older and not hard to max graphics so is naturally not a good benchmark, COD4 however is new and demanding, while Prey is never to be seen on that list.
So please, please TH, stop benchmarking Prey as a primary Game.