Pier Level

There are loads of plants and water on the “Pier” level. Crytek said that instancing is used on plants, while remained tight-lipped over any possible optimisations for the water shaders.

Note: minimal fps are marked with white numbers on the diagrams, black numbers represent average fps.

While the speed gain the Shader Model 3.0 provided for the GeForce 6800-series of graphics cards seems to be insignificant, it looks like the GeForce 6800-series beats competition more often than the RADEON X800-series manages to leave the rivals behind. As usual, have a look on the GeForce 6800 GT that succeeds in beating the RADEON X800 PRO in the majority of cases and the GeForce 6800 that outperforms the RADEON 9800 XT.