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Game Benchmarks: Crysis

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We benchmarked Crysis with what we consider the lowest acceptable settings to show off the Crytek engine. Most of the settings are on low, but the important shadows and shaders options are amped up to medium, allowing for better-looking visuals without the need for cutting-edge graphics hardware.

Even at these settings, the low-end Radeon HD 4550 and new GeForce 210 are left unplayable at 1280x1024. Sure, the Radeon HD 4550 is achieving almost twice the frame rates as the new GeForce 210, but performance just isn't ample. In order to play this game on these GPUs, you'd likely need to reduce detail even further and hop down to 1024x768.

Once we get to the Radeon HD 4650 and GeForce 9500 GT, we have playable 1280x1024 performance, and even 1680x1050 is passable at almost 30 frames per second (FPS) average. However, at 1920x1200, only the Radeon HD 4670 and GeForce 9600 GSO are able to muster over 30 FPS.

The new Gigabyte GeForce GT 220 is struggling to keep up with the Radeon HD 4670. And despite its respectable factory overclock, it performs closer to the GeForce 9500 GT GDDR3. However, the GeForce 9600 GSO claims the top spot, eking out a solid five frame lead over the Radeon HD 4670.

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kalliman 10/12/2009 7:12 AM
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Too late for nVidia. They should release these cards 1 year ago...

ColMirage 10/12/2009 7:13 AM
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Soooo tiny itsy bitsy!

lemonade4 10/12/2009 7:25 AM
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Proximon 10/12/2009 7:30 AM
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They have a lot of loyal folks looking to save money these days, so they'll move some 220's. So fans will appreciate the cards.

apache_lives 10/12/2009 7:30 AM
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hmmm i can see amd stomping this thing shortly with a DX11 part - kalliman is right, this is way too late in the market

as for the gt300 - also bad news if the info i have heard is correct - 6 months away is not good for nvidia

lashabane 10/12/2009 7:35 AM
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And to answer your question - No, it cannot play Crysis.

anonymous 10/12/2009 8:03 AM
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IzzyCraft 10/12/2009 8:09 AM
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apache_lives :
hmmm i can see amd stomping this thing shortly with a DX11 part - kalliman is right, this is way too late in the marketas for the gt300 - also bad news if the info i have heard is correct - 6 months away is not good for nvidia


The 210 220 i'm pretty sure are OEM parts this is more like a proof/test of what nvidia can do, then a market move. They are nothing more then media cards meant for random dell's/gateway random desktops for people who don't really know what's in their computers.

apache_lives 10/12/2009 8:10 AM
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idk :
why do i feel like mac?



because they cant play crysis either?

apache_lives 10/12/2009 8:16 AM
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IzzyCraft :
The 210 220 i'm pretty sure are OEM parts this is more like a proof/test of what nvidia can do, then a market move. They are nothing more then media cards meant for random dell's/gateway random desktops for people who don't really know what's in their computers.



like nvidia 8300's and 9300's - never heard of them till i worked on a few HP's

scrumworks 10/12/2009 8:17 AM
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This is the first time Tom's has run HAWX with DX10.1 support enabled. Those countless reviews with HD4xxx this support was not used. Does this imply something obvious?

cleeve 10/12/2009 8:20 AM
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IzzyCraft :
The 210 220 i'm pretty sure are OEM parts this is more like a proof/test of what nvidia can do, then a market move.



They're retail now.

Check Newegg, they can be purchased already. Today is the official launch of the retail cards, although they've been available for a few days now.

scrumworks 10/12/2009 8:21 AM
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I forgot to add that article writer seems not to have any idea what DX10.1 is all about when running HAWX without AA. Let me clarify: DX10.1 is about improving AA performance.

americanbrian 10/12/2009 9:10 AM
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Well scrumworks,

Seeing as these cards cannot perform well on basic settings at low resolutions it would seem that enabling AA for these cards is a moot point.

stumpystumped 10/12/2009 9:49 AM
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I don't see the point of these cards, 9500GT have similar power and performance and costs less. 9600GT green version would have similar power output but twice the performance of GT220 so again it's getting pwned.

shubham1401 10/12/2009 9:53 AM
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Fail!

JohnnyMash 10/12/2009 10:48 AM
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"..the GT200 family's naming convention. Let's have a closer look at what they actually contain."

Oh touchè! ;-)

liemfukliang 10/12/2009 11:36 AM
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If only Nvidia have something to make consumen confuse like:
Pure Video HD 4
DX 11

If not than I thing I will buy 9600 GT. Thank you....

BartG 10/12/2009 11:47 AM
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