Far Cry

We couldn’t find any differences among the top-end graphics cards on the Pier map. They all have roughly the same speed here even in high resolutions and when full-screen antialiasing is enabled.

The Research map can still serve as a measure of performance of such devices as Radeon X1800, Radeon X1900 or GeForce 7800. The frame rate being about 83-88fps in the hardest test mode, we can state that there is almost no effect from overclocking the Radeon X1800 XT in this game, too, even though it is completely different from OpenGL shooters like Doom 3 and The Chronicles of Riddick . Meanwhile, the Radeon X1900 XT stops very short of the 100fps mark so the architectural innovations implemented by ATI are not so unrewarding.

It can hardly be the 48 pixel processors – there seems to be little work for them in Far Cry . But the larger hierarchical Z-buffer and the additional general-purpose registers may be the factors that list the Radeon X1900 XT up to the same level with Nvidia’s card in this test.