Far Cry

There’s not much difference between the GeForce 7900 GTX and the GeForce 7800 GTX 512 in Far Cry , either. The SLI configuration with two new graphics cards from Nvidia is successfully competing with the Radeon X1900 XT CrossFire, except for the SLI AA/Super AA modes. The GeForce 7900 GTX SLI does yield a minimum frame rate of 60fps even with turned-on 8x SLI AA.

The new best-performance graphics card from Nvidia isn’t actually much better than the older one on the Research map as well, although this level is less CPU-dependent and can put the graphics card’s pixel processors to good use. The Radeon X1900 XTX is still in the lead among single-GPU solutions, outperforming the GeForce 7900 GTX by 10%.

The test scene goes on indoors most of the time, so the average performance of the cards is higher than in the previous case. The GeForce 7900 GTX SLI provides a comfortable speed in 1280x1024 with enabled 16x SLI AA, for example. Remember, however, that as soon as you go out into the open, the speed of the game may plummet to below comfortable level.