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Results: Far Cry 3

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Far Cry 3 offers great visuals, and we’d hate to run it at anything less than the Medium quality preset and 720p. Fortunately, the AMD platform pulls through smoothly. Even uncharted DDR3-1600 CAS 11 reaches 36 FPS.

Extra memory bandwidth offers little help to Intel’s more modest integrated GPU, with the game stuck at roughly 30 FPS.

Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.