Far Cry

The Leadtek kit isn’t any worse than the GeForce 6800 GT on the open and water-abounding Pier level. The GeForce 6800 Ultra is faster, though, not to mention the RADEON X850 XT Platinum Edition with its highest pixel shader performance. Overclocking brings no positive effects to the SLI platform.

We again see the Leadtek kit lacking more graphics memory and more memory bandwidth in the FSAA + AF mode. The SLI platform performs worse than the GeForce 6800 GT and its efficiency is diminishing in higher resolutions. In 1600x1200 the gap between it and the GeForce 6800 GT is as big as 25% and the performance of the Leadtek kit is unacceptably low.

The second Far Cry map we use in our tests of graphics cards depicts a cave lit with per-pixel light sources. The Leadtek kit is even a little ahead of the GeForce 6800 GT in high resolutions: the memory load is lower here, while the pixel shader performance is more important. The WinFast PX6600 GT TDH has a higher GPU clock rate and thus a higher pixel shader performance than the GeForce 6800 GT does. Yet anyway, the RADEON X850 XT PE remained an unrivalled leader here, too.

Unlike on the Pier map, the lack of memory bandwidth is felt only in 1600x1200. Up to this resolution the two WinFast PX6600 GT cards are at least as fast as the GeForce 6800 GT.