Sapphire HD 4770 PCIe Graphics Card
 
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Results Analysis
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With absolutely nothing to separate the two 4770 graphics cards it will certainly be a hard choice for the consumer to decide which card is best on performance alone. Strangely and against the run of play, the HD4850 fell short of beating the 4770’s in Oblivion. The 4850 did however reclaim it’s performance lead in Far Cry 2. Neither the 4770 or the 4850 could cope with AA/AF in Crysis so if you are looking for adequate filtering in this game you might have to increase your budget and opt for a more powerful GPU. Even in Crossfire configuration, Crysis crippled the cards when running at maximum resolution. I did try max resolution with 4xAA/AF but this resulted in a slide show with the results proving pretty pointless in debate.
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Let’s move on to the conclusion…
