Crysis (DX10)
Yes, it’s old. But it’s still a GPU punisher. As you can see even today’s newest cards can’t handle Crysis at 30 frames per second under DirectX 10. We didn’t even bother to try anti aliasing because we’d just be looking at a slideshow. It’s very interesting though how the best performing cards are the AMD/ATI cards in this grueling benchmark.
Far Cry2 (DX10)
Where we have Crysis, we have Far Cry2 not that far behind. It’s nice to see every card producing playable frame rates in this game. nVidia’s cards are strongest across the board and the overclocking of the GTS 450 even has it catching up with the much more expensive HD 5830 and trouncing the already overclocked HD 5770.
Resident Evil 5 (DX10)
Resident Evil 5 provides some extra test material for our look at how anti aliasing can affect performance. We are happy to report that 4x AA is something you should turn on in this title as the impact does not kill frame rates enough for you to not enjoy the extra picture quality. This game is completely playable and smooth with any of the candidates tested here but the GTS 450 does get beaten by the HD 5770.
H.A.W.X. (DX10)
H.A.W.X. doubles up as our flight simulator benchmark. It’s a really beautiful game that gives us access to eye candy from real aircraft models and real satellite maps. It’s nice to see all the GPUs tested being able to play this game with AA on or off. But of course, we’d keep in on now that we know we can. In fact, with AA on, HD 5770 falls to the might of an overclocked GTS 450.
World in Conflict (DX10)
I know a lot of people are hoping for us to replace this RTS benchmark with StarCraft II. To be perfectly honest, I don’t think we will. You see, I’ve been playing StarCraft II on a system with an 8800 Ultra in it and it runs with AA up to 16x smoothly. It’s not very demanding but this game is and if your system can make it through this benchmark, it’ll be able to play StarCraft II no problem. With the settings cranked to max, from what we can see from the results, everyone is in trouble when it comes to minimum frame rates with AA on or AA off. However, average frame rates are good and keep the game fun for the most part in my hands on testing. HD 5770 seems to suffer the most when AA is turned on.