Which card will crack Crysis?

ozzaman · 11 Jan 2008 at 21:55

Ahh yes Crysis, the utterly average first person shooter turned into must have title because its really quite beautiful.

There are two cards on the horizon, only one or two benchmarks for the 3870X2, but speaking theoretically can we expect maybe 40-60 fps (with a tiny bit of AA etc) from the likes of the 3870X2 / 9800GTX?

Jokester · 11 Jan 2008 at 21:57

X800GTX should do the job.

Skeeter · 11 Jan 2008 at 21:57

nVidia 10800GTX 2GB

Smirnoff · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:17

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JediFragger · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:39

9800GTX/3870x2 should do the trick, well you should hope!!

ozzaman · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:41

I saw a tri sli benchmarked on one of the gaming hardware sites and it didnt scale at all well and was either equal to sli or even the single card setup.

dr. sarf · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:43

ozzaman said:
I saw a tri sli benchmarked on one of the gaming hardware sites and it didnt scale at all well and was either equal to sli or even the single card setup.

We need to wait until the drivers are optimised.

JediFragger said:
9800GTX/3870x2 should do the trick, well you should hope!!

Looking forward to the X2.

snowdog · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:44

Uhm??

A 8800GT sli should do it, I'm getting 30 average fps all high with 4 x aa & 16x AF @ 1280x1024 with a dc cpu that is (atm) @ 2.68 ghz in windows xp, so gfx= heavily bottlenecked.
I see no reason an 8800GT sli system with a quad @ 3.6 ghz can't run 50 fps.

ozzaman · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:47

Sli does that well in Crysis? I have a 3870 crossfire setup and get around 30 frames with enabled, about 5 frames less when disabled and i cant even think about putting any AA on.

I had the belief that crossfire at the moment, especially with the 3870's was superior to SLI?

dr. sarf · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:50

I had 2x Gts in SLI under XP and an overclocked 6000+ - around 35FPS average.
You're not gonna get 50FPS at those settings with GTs. Struggling with GTXs to be honest.

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LoadsaMoney · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:51

ozzaman said:
There are two cards on the horizon, only one or two benchmarks for the 3870X2, but speaking theoretically can we expect maybe 40-60 fps (with a tiny bit of AA etc) from the likes of the 3870X2 / 9800GTX?

No chance.

Margaret · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:53

More like "Which card gets released with new drivers that suddenly increase FPS by 100%, of course this is not a marketing plan to buy our new cards of course!"

Well, could be like that. I blame sloppy coding on Crysis though, it just needs raw power like Rainbow Six Vegas did I guess.

Smirnoff · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:55

3870X2 pretty much beats TriSLI'ed GTX's in 3dmark

Skeeter · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:56

Jihad said:
More like "Which card gets released with new drivers that suddenly increase FPS by 100%, of course this is not a marketing plan to buy our new cards of course!"

Well, could be like that. I blame sloppy coding on Crysis though, it just needs raw power like Rainbow Six Vegas did I guess.

increasing frames by 100% isnt hard whan you are only at 20 to start with! lol

ozzaman · 11 Jan 2008 at 23:01

About the Crysis benchmark, I get a mark of around 40 fps with my crossfire, but theres no way i see that same performance in game.

snowdog · 11 Jan 2008 at 23:13

dr. sarf said:
I had 2x Gts in SLI under XP and an overclocked 6000+ - around 35FPS average.
You're not gonna get 50FPS at those settings with GTs. Struggling with GTXs to be honest.

An 6000+ heavily bottlenecks the gfx card still.

You'd really need a core 2 duo @ 3.6 ghz ( or a 4.2 ghz amd X2) or more to not bottleneck it.
My G92 GTS is so heavily bottlenecked that even with just 867mhz extra on the cpu the gfx card becomes 20% faster.

Have you tried the new 1.1 patch and the new nvidia drivers? Both are supposed to increase Crysis's sli performance.

Smirnoff said:
3870X2 pretty much beats TriSLI'ed GTX's in 3dmark

Not in Crysis though, even a single 3870 is worse than the nvidia's G92's by quite a bit in games due to inneficient drivers I guess.

ArcAneTSGK · 11 Jan 2008 at 23:23

It sort of makes you think what kind of PC's must the Crytek people have, if all of out top end Spec PC's are playing this at 30-40FPS

snowdog · 11 Jan 2008 at 23:30

ArcAne151 said:
It sort of makes you think what kind of PC's must the Crytek people have, if all of out top end Spec PC's are playing this at 30-40FPS

???????

55.175 FPS with a 3.4 ghz c2d and an overclocked single 8800GTS 512 mb, with all settings on high 1280x1024 and no aa/af.

A triple sli or even normall sli pc should run this 50 FPS no problems.

muon · 12 Jan 2008 at 00:04

Intel GMA graphics in about 5 years.