Far Cry 2 PC VGA Graphics performance review

Posted by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/21/2008 01:00 PM [ 0 comment(s) ]

Hardware and Software Used

Now we begin the benchmark portion of this article, but first let me show you our test system plus the software we used.

Mainboard

ASUS P5E3 Deluxe mainboard (ATI Radeon cards)
nForce 680i SLI (NVIDIA GeForce cards)

Processor

Core 2 Duo E8400 Processor @ 3.0 GHz (FSB 1333)

Graphics Cards

VGA Cards used

GeForce 8800 GT 512MB

GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB

GeForce 8800 GTX 768 MB

GeForce 8800 Ultra 768MB

GeForce 9600 GT 512MB

GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB

GeForce 9800 GX2 1024MB

GeForce GTX 260 896MB

GeForce GTX 280 1024MB

Radeon 3850 256MB

Radeon 3870 512MB

Radeon 4670 512MB

Radeon 4830 512MB

Radeon 4850 512MB

Radeon 4870 512MB

Radeon 4870 X2 2048MB

Memory

2048 MB (2x1024MB) DDR3 1066 MHz Corsair (ASUS mainboard)
2048 MB (2x1024MB) DDR2 1066 MHz Corsair (NVIDIA mainboard)

Power Supply Unit

Enermax Galaxy 1000 Watt PSU (ASUS mainboard)
BFG 800W ES (NVIDIA mainboard)

Monitor

Dell 3007WFP - up-to 2560x1600

OS related Software

Windows Vista 32-bit
DirectX 9/10 End User Runtime
ATI Catalyst Press 8.10 Far Cry 2 Hotfix driver
NVIDIA GeForce 180.42

Software benchmark suite

Far Cry 2 - Ubisoft

A word about "FPS"

What are we looking for in gaming performance wise? First off, obviously Guru3D tends to think that all games should be played at the best image quality (IQ) possible. There's a dilemma though, IQ often interferes with the performance of a graphics card. We measure this in FPS, the number of frames a graphics card can render per second, the higher it is the more fluently your game will display itself.

A game's frames per second (FPS) is a measured average of a series of tests. That test often is a time demo, a recorded part of the game which is a 1:1 representation of the actual game and its gameplay experience. After forcing the same image quality settings; this time-demo is then used for all graphics cards so that the actual measuring is as objective as can be.

Frames per second	Gameplay
<30 FPS	very limited gameplay
30-40 FPS	average yet very playable
40-60 FPS	good gameplay
>60 FPS	best possible gameplay

So if a graphics card barely manages less than 30 FPS, then the game is not very playable, we want to avoid that at all cost.
With 30 FPS up-to roughly 40 FPS you'll be very able to play the game with perhaps a tiny stutter at certain graphically intensive parts. Overall a very enjoyable experience. Match the best possible resolution to this result and you'll have the best possible rendering quality versus resolution, hey you want both of them to be as high as possible.
When a graphics card is doing 60 FPS on average or higher then you can rest assured that the game will likely play extremely smoothly at every point in the game, turn on every possible in-game IQ setting.
Over 100 FPS? You have either a MONSTER of graphics card or a very old game.

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