11 - Game performance COD4 & Crysis
The PowerColor and Force3D tests.
Before we start off with the benchmarks: both the Radeon HD 4850 from PowerColor and Force3D are 100% reference based, thus each single clock, setting, timing and what not is 100% identical. In the benchmarks we therefore include the performance only measured with one card, so the charts won't get too cluttered with too much identical information.
We did fire off some tests at the cards individually, but as expected ... the cards were showing 100% precisely similar performance.
Gaming: Call of Duty 4
Activision recently released Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the next installment in the popular war game series. Moving away from the World War II setting, Modern Warfare instead centers around a conflict involving Russia and the Middle East. And hey, you even get to die ... and then continue the game in the past.
Call of Duty 4. Is there anyone who doesn't like the game? For this benchmark we disguise ourselves in the Ghillie suit, load up ACT II - All Ghillied up. Not just for the great gameplay, but also the intense and dense graphics utilized are breathtaking. Massive high-quality texturing, shaders and a serious amount of shadows, fog and debris are applied in this level to mask and hide as best as you can.
Image Quality setting:
- 4x Anti Aliasing
- 16x anisotropic filtering
- All settings maxed out
Okay then, ATI yesterday released a new driver which mentioned a big improvement of COD4 performance. That improvement definitely was also present in our driver. that's 2560x1600 @ 32 FPS with all image quality settings enabled set to high for 200 bucks people.
The level where we measure and the image quality settings used
Gaming: Crysis - Single Player v1.2
With mankind facing an alien cataclysm, your elite Delta force and North Korean forces combine, united by common humanity in a battle to save Earth. Graphically stunning, tactically challenging and always intensely immersive, Crysis sets player choice at the heart of its gameplay, with customizable tactical weaponry and adaptable armor allowing instant response to changing conditions. Crysis doesn't feel all that different from its predecessor, Far Cry. Both are set on an island. Both involve a latent alien menace. Both bid you move more or less linearly through shaggy jungle areas, where the fact that you're progressing in a single direction is camouflaged by your ability to approach obstacles in your path any way you like. Think the "every time you play a situation yields radically different behaviors and results" approach in games like Rainbow Six Vegas or Gears of War except on more of a geographic scale.
Oh yeah, you probably want to hear about how it performs, right?
Image Quality setting:
- 0x Anti Aliasing
- 16x anisotropic filtering
Follow the green line please as that is the card tested today ... with Medium Image Quality settings up-to 1280x1024 again is really playable up-to 1920x1200 actually. That's just really impressive.
