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Almost a Champion: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT Gaming Performance Review (page 4)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Yaroslav Lyssenko, Anton Shilov

[ 05/24/2007 | 03:39 PM ]

Far Cry

Far Cry is both pixel shader and texture intensive title. Moreover, Far Cry game tends to use as much as possible processing and system power for itself, which make it resemble id’s Quake 3 Arena of our times (unlike the aforementioned one, Far Cry still looks lovely three years after introduction).

Whenever you are going to get out of the cave and shoot your enemies near the deltaplan and then fly it to another shore while trying to get rid of mercenaries on the helicopter and the boat, any modern graphics card would fit in perfectly. The Radeon HD 2900 XT seems to be a little faster than others here, but not substantially.

Similar situations happens when it comes to “Research” level: if you are skilled enough, head-shots to the monsters here are nearly guaranteed, but in case you own the Radeon HD 2900 XT, everything is going to happen a little faster.