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DirectX 11: Ultra Detail Benchmarks

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Here’s where Crysis 2 pushes hardware as hard as it can, with DirectX 11 and all of the visual goodies enabled. In light of the DirectX 9 Ultra detail performance results, we added Radeon HD 6970s in CrossFire and GeForce GTX 580s in SLI in order to maximize our chances of seeing playable frame rates at 1080p:

At 1280x1024, the Radeon HD 6850 and GeForce GTX 460 are humbled. The playing field is a lot tighter at 1680x1050, where the Radeon HD 6970, GeForce GTX 570, Radeon HD 6850s in CrossFire, and GeForce GTX 460s in SLI have minimum frame rates close to the 30 FPS requisite.

At 1080p, only the Radeon HD 6970s in CrossFire and GeForce GTX 580s in SLI deliver completely fluid frame rates.

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anonymous 07/12/2011 4:24 AM
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O.O

anonymous 07/12/2011 4:25 AM
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>.> the graphics card I bought a month ago is officialy outdated imo.

dragonsqrrl 07/12/2011 4:25 AM
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Awesome, I've been waiting for Tom's to bench the DX11 patch. Thanks for the benchmarks.

dragonsqrrl 07/12/2011 4:33 AM
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bear95 :
>.> the graphics card I bought a month ago is officialy outdated imo.


What graphics card did you buy a month ago?

jjb8675309 07/12/2011 4:41 AM
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bebangs 07/12/2011 4:43 AM
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Is your monster rig is bored? Can't find any other games to play with your rig? Get this patch.

coldtortilla 07/12/2011 4:51 AM
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wow now I am really ashamed of buying a core i3 for my budget gaming pc, hopefully it won't be that bad considering that the game favors intel architecture.

anonymous 07/12/2011 4:59 AM
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anonymous 07/12/2011 5:17 AM
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And the game play still is average or below. When people say they want gameplay over graphics and then push Crysis 2 you know that is not the truth.

Scoregie 07/12/2011 5:18 AM
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Taylor422 07/12/2011 5:19 AM
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I would've liked to see how a single GTX 580 held out. There were single and double 570s, but only double 580s. Otherwise, good article. It looks like Metro 2033 has been knocked off as the benchmark standard.

SteelCity1981 07/12/2011 5:45 AM
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So a $109 dollar Phenom II X4 945 CPU can play Crysis 2 just fine as long as you have a Highend GPU. Well I got one of the two now I need an Nvidia Geforce GTX 570 Time to retire my ATI Radeon 4770 and sell it on ebay.

dragonsqrrl 07/12/2011 5:59 AM
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SteelCity1981 :
So a $109 dollar Phenom II X4 945 CPU can play Crysis 2 just fine as long as you have a Highend GPU. Well I got one of the two now I need an Nvidia Geforce GTX 570 Time to retire my ATI Radeon 4770 and sell it on ebay.


That processor will definitely bottleneck a GTX570 (at lower resolutions the performance hit seems quite severe), although yes, you'll probably still be able to achieve playable frame rates at anything but maxed out settings.

SteelCity1981 07/12/2011 6:06 AM
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dragonsqrrl :
That processor will definitely bottleneck a GTX570 (at lower resolutions the performance hit seems quite severe), although yes, you'll probably still be able to achieve playable frame rates at anything but maxed out settings.




Doesn't look that way seems like the Phenom II X4 945 @ 3gz paired with a Geforce GTX 570 on highest details on a 1280x 1024 with 45fps seems to be pretty playable.

wintermint 07/12/2011 6:09 AM
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Don't wanna be nitpicky on typos but for your test setup.. you mentioned "OCZ PC3-16000" :P

dragonsqrrl 07/12/2011 6:11 AM
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SteelCity1981 :
Doesn't look that way seems like the Phenom II X4 945 @ 3gz paired with a Geforce GTX 570 on highest details on a 1280x 1024 with 45fps seems to be pretty playable.


Sorry, I just assumed that since you were going for a GTX570, you'd be running it at higher resolutions.

flyboy86 07/12/2011 6:16 AM
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Wish they would have included the 5770 in crossfire.

kurahk7 07/12/2011 6:25 AM
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It says "1920x1800" instead on 1920x1080 on the Dx11 page.

crisan_tiberiu 07/12/2011 6:25 AM
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i have a GTX 460 1 GB, and yes, the benchamrk what Toms did its accurate. Maxed out on 1080p i have 20 -21 FPS. Core i7 2600k its bottlenecked by the GTX 460. I buyed the card last december.. so i dont wanna upgrde yet :( or i should? oO

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