Crysis is the current game that pushes video cards to their limit. The latest from Crytek, Crysis offers some of the most incredible visuals you see today on the PC. For the test we ran through a flyby around the island that lasted about 4 minutes and recorded the average frames per second. Resolution was set at 1600x1200.
Call of Duty 4 is one of the best first person shooters released in 2008. The Call of Duty series makes its move to modern times with awesome graphics, intense battles, and great multiplayer action. The test was done at 1600x1200 resolution with a custom multiplayer demo that I recorded.
What else can you say but very well played, AMD, very well played. The Radeon HD 4850 surpassed my expectations on performance. Positioned to go up against a GeForce 8800GTS, the Radeon HD 4850 performed at or beyond the GeForce 8800GTX which is slightly faster than the 8800GTS in most cases.
Quality of graphics can be improved by turning on anti-aliasing. The Radeon HD 4850 boasts great performance at both 4X and 8X AA. To test, I ran Call of Juarez at 4X while running Call of Duty at 4X and 8X AA at 1600x1200 resolution.
While there's a good jump in the loss of framerate going from no AA to 4X, the decrease in speed isn't as significant in Call of Duty 4 when going from 4X to 8X. Given the performance available, you can get very good framerates at high resolution with a good deal of AA turned on.
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