Am I missing something here?

[Swi1ch]

So all the benchmarks of late between the 260 and the 4870 show Crysis running high/very high graphics and 2xaa on a decent res chugging quite bad, usually 30fps at most. http://www.guru3d.com/article/top-10-games-with-radeon-4870-1-gb--geforce-gtx-260-core-216-test/7

I was under the impression that only some kind of pixie powered setup and graphics card was going to run crysis nicely. Imagine my surprise, when my mate showed me his 8800GTX running Crysis on Very High, 16xAA and getting a solid 30FPS.

Am I missing something in these GPU benchmarks? My mate is only using a Q6600 @2.8, 4gb RAM and the 8800GTX and is keeping up with the 4870s and 260s with way better rigs. Surely that's not right?

 

[Swi1ch]

I've seen it. Would it make a difference that it's at 1440x900 res?

Edit. My thoughts were the same as all yours; when he told me that it could do it, I basically laughed out loud.

A screenie:

 

[Swi1ch]

Crysis can do 16xAA:

And I was wrong about the 30fps...It's more like 25. Still...

 

[Swi1ch]

if thats a screenie of it, then its not doing a solid 30 already, says just over 28 there, and hes only on the beach by himself doing nowt.

Bah, true. When combat starts it drops pretty bad. Like 10, so I guess I was wrong.

Still, pretty god impressive.

 

[Swi1ch]

I promise you that he has an 8800GTX. It's a Q6600 OC'd to 2.6/2.8 (It's unstable because of stock fan), 4GB of unspecified RAM (He bought a pre-build), an average mobo and his 8800GTX is slightly overclocked.

I know some people are sceptical, but i'm just as shocked as anyone else.

 

[Swi1ch]

Get him to run the benchmark, and post the results.

Do you need to download it?/Where can you get it from, and i'll get him to do it.