Far Cry

Far Cry is a recently released title, a game that features beautiful textures and complex geometry as well as numerous sophisticated pixel shaders. Still, the record we made on the Pier level cannot say anything to us as the graphics cards, save for the GeForce 6600 GT, hit the performance ceiling set by the central processor.

There’s more competition in the eye candy mode: the GeForce 6800 GT and ATI’s best solutions have the same speeds in the low resolution. The advantage of the latter is already visible in 1280x1024. The gap between the RADEON X850 XT Platinum Edition and the RADEON X800 XT is growing along with the resolution to become 10 percent at most.

We have re-recorded the demo on the Research level, making it longer. Now it includes a run along the coastline as well as a stroll in the cave. The results have changed, too. The RADEON X800/X850 cards are much better than the GeForce 6800 GT in all resolutions. The difference between the RADEON X800 XT and the RADEON X850 XT Platinum Edition is almost invisible.

Enabling full-screen antialiasing and anisotropic filtering puts a bigger load on the graphics memory subsystem, so every extra megahertz of memory frequency can be of great help. That’s why the new RADEON enjoys a bigger advantage over the predecessor than in the previous case.