Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
From a future battlefield in a top down view, it was time to move to a modern battlefield in a first person view. Call of Duty 4 is an extremely popular FPS title, with a following some say rivals that of CS. Though I may doubt that, I don’t doubt that the GTX 260 AMP! performs rather well in this title. It’s still 27% slower then the GTX 280, but it still manages to average over 100 FPS, which is nothing to sneeze at.
With frame rates like that, it isn’t surprising that every minute I spent playing CoD4 was spent having to not worry about frame drops and video card related lag. Gameplay was smooth and clean, and everything was stunningly rendered.
Crysis
Though the games I’ve shown in testing thus far can look quite nice, none come close to the potential visual complexity presented by Crysis. This game has such a powerful rendering engine that given the right equipment, it’s hard to tell the difference between in-game graphics and real life. We went with the more modest “High” setting for our benchmarks, and weren’t disappointed. Though 35 FPS is far lower than what we’ve seen in our other games thus far, with Crysis it’s nothing to sneeze at consider the more powerful GTX 280 only manages 40 FPS.
At these frame rates, frame drops and lag due to lack of performance are inevitable. Though most of the game was quite playable, there were areas and situations that made the video card crack under pressure a couple times. Running a dual card steup seems to be the only way to render Crysis in all its glory at high framerates.
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