Will crysis run with a 3850??

[555BUK]

My 512mb 3850 plays every game I have at 1680x1050. Crysis is fine at this res using Medium settings, or a mix of Medium/High. All Medium averages 42FPS for me.

Having owned both this and an Inno3d 8800GT I can hostly say there is not much between them. My 3850 clocked at 905/2000 is almost as fast as my GT was at 738/2000.

For approximately £40 less than a GT my GeCube 3850 512mb OC edition was certainly better value.

I loved the GT, but equally love the 3850. The reason I changed cards is simply because I needed something new to play with.

edit: Here's a benchmark I just run for Crysis.

 

[psychas]

GET 512 version and you might get away with playable all medium settings looking at your rig

 

[555BUK]

Get the GeCube 3850 512MB OC double slot cooler Edition. It has an unlocked bios so can overclock past the 860MHz GPU limit that is set on most other 3850/3870's. The cooler is also better than the one used on 3870's and 8800GTS's. See piccy of mine below.

My OC'd 3850 beats my OC'd 8800GT in 3DMark01, 03 and 05. In 3DMark06 the GT wins by about 8%.

 

[phatboy]

Get the GeCube 3850 512MB OC double slot cooler Edition. It has an unlocked bios so can overclock past the 860MHz GPU limit that is set on most other 3850/3870's.

My card beats my OC'd 8800GT in 3DMark01, 03 and 05. In 3DMark06 the GT wins by about 8%.

The Gecube unit does incredibly well in every review i have seen, when i do my upgrade.....i'm most likely going to go with one

Can be had for £110 too!!!

 

[psychas]

the guy who says 3850 same as 8800gt is totally wrong. + what was the point downgrading from gt to 3850 ?

 

[555BUK]

the guy who says 3850 same as 8800gt is totally wrong. + what was the point downgrading from gt to 3850 ?

Have you owned both cards yourself and formed your own opinion? Here are the benchmarks for my 8800GT (738/2000) vs my 3850 (905/2000). I sold the GT to buy the 3850 because I made £50 in the exchange, and lost very little performance.

3850 3DMark01 52858
8800GT 3DMark01 47256

3850 3DMark03 43538
8800GT 3DMark03 42196

3850 3DMark05 23042
8800GT 3DMark05 20447

3850 3DMark06 12849
8800GT 3DMark06 13046

All benches were made using Vista32, a P5N-E Mobo, a C2D, and 4GB Ram. The 8800 GPU was overclocked by around 23% vs 35% for the 3850.


I never said the 3850 was a faster or equal performamce card to the 8800GT. All I am saying is that the difference is much smaller than most people think, and that for most people the performance differences would be virtually unnoticable. It must also be said that my GT was a good clocker, but my 3850 is an exceptional clocker. I can bench all the way up to 918/2100 on the 3850 but it is not Crysis or ATITool stable at those speeds.

Now call me a liar again. For under £120 the 3850 is the best card on the planet. For under £160 the GT is. Of the two, the 3850 is the best value.

 

[phatboy]

fair play mate. It is great to hear from someone who has used both, i was caught between the gt and pro, budget is the biggest factor. If the gap is that small its a no brainer, the price difference is an 2gb of ram and maybe an freezer 7 for my new build. . Sold! . Btw how easy was the gecube 3850 to clock? Few reviews said they struggled getting it above the 725/1800 stock

 

[Sean_UK]

Used few 3850's with 512mb in budget builds lately; they run Crysis fine upto 1280x1024, anything over and the gfx settings need to come down a fair bit - so would expect 256mb version would really struggle.

 

[titaniumx3]

1024x768, 2xAA, Everything on high accept for shadows on low, post processing on medium, shaders medium. heres the benchmark from my x1900xt card......

Post processing, shaders and shadows are the major peformance killers in Crysis, so by having the first two at medium and shadows at low, you are in effect playing at below medium details.

Bench at the same settings and then compare the X1900XT and HD3870; I'm sure the difference will become a lot more apparent then.

 

[willhub]

Have you owned both cards yourself and formed your own opinion? Here are the benchmarks for my 8800GT (738/2000) vs my 3850 (905/2000). I sold the GT to buy the 3850 because I made £50 in the exchange, and lost very little performance.

3850 3DMark01 52858
8800GT 3DMark01 47256

3850 3DMark03 43538
8800GT 3DMark03 42196

3850 3DMark05 23042
8800GT 3DMark05 20447

3850 3DMark06 12849
8800GT 3DMark06 13046

All benches were made using Vista32, a P5N-E Mobo, a C2D, and 4GB Ram. The 8800 GPU was overclocked by around 23% vs 35% for the 3850.


I never said the 3850 was a faster or equal performamce card to the 8800GT. All I am saying is that the difference is much smaller than most people think, and that for most people the performance differences would be virtually unnoticable. It must also be said that my GT was a good clocker, but my 3850 is an exceptional clocker. I can bench all the way up to 918/2100 on the 3850 but it is not Crysis or ATITool stable at those speeds.

Now call me a liar again. For under £120 the 3850 is the best card on the planet. For under £160 the GT is. Of the two, the 3850 is the best value.

Have you got any game benchmarks of that 3850 Vs 8800GT such as crysis all high at 1680x1050 or 1280x1024, my GT at 700 core beaten a 3850 in crysis at 1Ghz core by quite abit, if I remember rightly it was 10fps, 3dmark means nothing for performance IMO. And the reason I say crysis is because its the most demanding games, try others like. A 3850 at 860 is litrally a 3870XT anyway. And at that cheap price the 3850 is tempting me to buy and sell my GT due to the price difference. mmm thats cheapo price I feel like pressing the buy button right now hmmmmm any game benchmarks??

 

[gurusan]

To be honnest im quite dissapointed how crysis runs with my 3870 over my 1900xt card, like ive said in other threads, I think crysis must have really liked my x1900xt card, and crysis isnt fully using my 3870 card, or something like that anyway.

You're kidding. Crysis ran like complete crapola on my x1900 512mb around 760mhz.

On my 3850 it's playable at all high settings 1440x900 (30+fps) and all high settings with shaders @ medium 1680x1050

and this is at stock clocks.

 

[555BUK]

Have you got any game benchmarks of that 3850 Vs 8800GT such as crysis all high at 1680x1050 or 1280x1024, my GT at 700 core beaten a 3850 in crysis at 1Ghz core by quite abit, if I remember rightly it was 10fps, 3dmark means nothing for performance IMO. And the reason I say crysis is because its the most demanding games, try others like. A 3850 at 860 is litrally a 3870XT anyway. And at that cheap price the 3850 is tempting me to buy and sell my GT due to the price difference. mmm thats cheapo price I feel like pressing the buy button right now hmmmmm any game benchmarks??

The GT is about 25% faster for Crysis than the 3850/3870's. My OC'd GT gave 29FPS @ 1680x1050 (all High settings) vs 23FPS for the 3850. I could not play Crysis comfortably on either card with High settings. Both are silky smooth with Medium settings. It will be another two years before any card can run Crysis on Very High setting and hi res.

For every other game I own (Supreme Commander, Oblivion, DIRT, COH, HL2 EP2, UT3 etc) there are no noticeable differences between the two. They both run everything at high settings.

The question the original poster was asking is whether Crysis will play on a 3850. The answer is a big YES.

 

[Magnum_Force]

555BUK, have you volt modded your Gecube card?? I have 2 of the smae card and they tend to go abit funny when they get oced in Catalyst (even though I can only bump them up 10mhz).

Do you use Rivatuner to OC??

Also, how much air do your cards put out at the back of the case?? I've put my hand there when I've set the fan to full blast, and it barely seems any air is coming out.

Temps are great though.

 

[555BUK]

555BUK, have you volt modded your Gecube card?? I have 2 of the smae card and they tend to go abit funny when they get oced in Catalyst (even though I can only bump them up 10mhz).

Do you use Rivatuner to OC??

Also, how much air do your cards put out at the back of the case?? I've put my hand there when I've set the fan to full blast, and it barely seems any air is coming out.

Temps are great though.

I do not use CCC because it resticts the overclocking to just 735MHz on my card. I originally used Riva Tuner to find the max stable clocks, and then manually modded the bios to boot at the desired speed. The card has not been modded other than changing GPU/Mem clocks in bios.

 

[Magnum_Force]

Care to tell me how you mod the bios

 

[555BUK]

Care to tell me how you mod the bios

There is a lot of info about this on the XtremeSystems. forums. I am not sure if I can post a direct link without breaking OcUK rules.

 

[Phil2008]

Post processing, shaders and shadows are the major peformance killers in Crysis, so by having the first two at medium and shadows at low, you are in effect playing at below medium details.

Bench at the same settings and then compare the X1900XT and HD3870; I'm sure the difference will become a lot more apparent then.

I have used the same settings on my 3870 and the max fps is in the 50s and prob low 60s but the low fps is a dreadfull 15fps or lower, I would post the bench mark, but Im using 7.12 drivers cos 8.1s are quite buggy ive found and the performace drops is dreadful going back to the 7.12s with crysis, but all the other gamers run perfectly. In crysis the low fps in the benchmark must drop at least another 10fps with the 7.12s...... CRYSIS IS VERY ODD