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TheRealDeal · 12 Oct 2008 at 18:47

Hardly surprising that your gts does so well as it is a nvidia game and one of the ones that favour them pretty heavily as the graph shows. I don't think ati can do anything to improve there performance the same as they could not in crysis either.

mpj88 · 12 Oct 2008 at 19:32

hmm yeah bit of a shame! Is there any game like this thats optimised for ati?

555BUK · 12 Oct 2008 at 22:17

The GTS is still a great card, and Crysis really shows off it's capabilities. However, if you look at the vast ammount of 4850 and 4870 reviews online you will see this is one of the few games where it can still compete (and actually outrun) the ATI cards. I suspect that benching Crysis with AA enabled would swing things towards the red camp.

I think Half Life EP2 and Oblivion were examples of games that were ATI biased.

Here's a quick bench of my 4850 runing the "Gamer" demo with 4xAA enabled. Would anyone with an 8800GTS/9800GTX/+ like to run the same bench and post results? I downclocked my E8500 to 4GHz to make it a fair comparisson.

edit: Just for fun, here's one with 8xAA.

I think this thread (without AA benches) is biased towards NVidia cards

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benjo · 12 Oct 2008 at 22:31

Just ran Gamer Mode, 1280x1024, with 4xAA like you have.

With my GTS, i got Avg: 26.43. So the 4850 exceeds when AA is enabled!

555BUK · 12 Oct 2008 at 22:55

benjo said:
Just ran Gamer Mode, 1280x1024, with 4xAA like you have.

With my GTS, i got Avg: 26.43. So the 4850 exceeds when AA is enabled!

Thanks. Now would anyone with a single GTX260/280 like to see if they can beat a lowly 4850 with 4x or 8x AA enabled? Not that AA is important on Crysis - there are not too many straight lines in the entire game.

I also tried "Enthusiast" @ 1680x1050 with 4xAA and got 19.96fps.

OP Request - How about adding a GAMER 1280x1024 benchmark with 4xAA? This should allow the ATI cards to compete more fairly.

rjk · 15 Oct 2008 at 21:32

added both of mine - fairly dissapointed - need a new card soon....

Clock.It · 16 Oct 2008 at 17:19

Can anyone with a 4870 tell me why when i run the benchmark in 1280x1024 gamer settings i get an average of 40 and minimum of 16 approx but if i set up a config file with :
r_TexturesStreaming = 0

i get a average of 49 and a minimum of 25.

As far as i know the texturestreaming command makes no difference visually but in this benchmark improves avg/min fps a lot.

Is this a bug in crysis warhead with Ati cards or is there some other explanation?

Could someone with a 4870 test this out?

sarge78 · 16 Oct 2008 at 18:03

555BUK said:
Thanks. Now would anyone with a single GTX260/280 like to see if they can beat a lowly 4850 with 4x or 8x AA enabled? Not that AA is important on Crysis - there are not too many straight lines in the entire game.

I also tried "Enthusiast" @ 1680x1050 with 4xAA and got 19.96fps.

Just for Mr 555BUK

Time to get a 260 in the enthusiast table too

(Just a light overclock, it gets 28.3fps as standard)

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Clock.It · 16 Oct 2008 at 18:54

10/16/2008 18:35:26 - Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate 64-bit Service Pack 1

DirectX 9.0c GAMER 3X @ Map: ambush flythrough @ 8 1280 x 1024 AA 4x
==> Framerate [ Min: 18.11 Max: 53.38 Avg: 39.44 ]

I get this with a 4870 clocked at 800/950 with dual core cpu at 3.1ghz but only with texturesstreaming=0 in config.

v0n · 17 Oct 2008 at 21:56

Single 512Mb Radeon HD 4870 @ 850/1180 fan at 50%, aero off, power draw peaked @ 372W

10/17/2008 20:49:59 - Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate 32-bit Service Pack 1

DirectX 9.0c ENTHUSIAST 3X @ Map: ambush flythrough @ 8 1680 x 1050 AA 0xx
==> Framerate [ Min: 13.98 Max: 54.05 Avg: 40.11 ]

Snapshot here

TheRealDeal · 17 Oct 2008 at 22:17

Thats by far the fastest 4870 score on the enthusiast list. Whats the rest of your system specs.

marc2003 · 17 Oct 2008 at 22:23

sorry but i don't trust that result at all. i think something went wrong somehere??? :confused:

look at it compared to the other ati results to see why i'm sceptical.

Strife212 · 17 Oct 2008 at 22:31

Looks way too high to me as well, hes 0.1 frame away from me!

Although, I can't see anything wrong at all from the screenshot.

v0n · 17 Oct 2008 at 22:32

(putting two fingers on his heart) That's what the benchmark thing produced. What can I do to improve the trust factor?

Earlier attempt at 39.01 (with aero and few programs in background)
In demo snapshot with fps counter, reduced jpg quality due to hosting limits, but can put the original somewhere for download
Vantage score from today

As far as I know it's bog standard 4870, bought from OCUK member's market (at very reasonable price)

Strife212 · 17 Oct 2008 at 22:34

Using any custom Crysis config files?

Maybe Catalyst 10 gives ATI a huge boost, are you using those?

v0n · 17 Oct 2008 at 22:36

Cat version is somewhere in the benchmark snapshot - 8.10, installed today.

Strife212 · 17 Oct 2008 at 22:37

Perhaps that is it. Nice result

v0n · 17 Oct 2008 at 22:43

Oh - and updated card BIOS (which wasn't easy as Sapphire insisted on it to be done under DOS, who on earth has DOS and floppy drives these days).

sarge78 · 17 Oct 2008 at 23:34

Wow, now thats one heck of a driver release! 70% performance boost in crysis

Although its probably something mundane like the benchmark tool not setting the correct res or a custom config
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TheRealDeal · 17 Oct 2008 at 23:38

Its not a 70% boost more like 30 when comparing to the rest of the 4870 bench scores. We need more people to run the bench using the new drivers.

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