Crysis

This game has been out for quite a while now, and it still is one of the best looking games out there. Based off the CryEngine, this game was and still isn't what you would call optimized, and continues to make even the high end cards suffer.

 

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 Here we can see there's a huge difference in frame rate between the HD4890 and GTX280. While the 9800GTX is falling away, both the other cards seem to be holding there ground even at the higher resolution. Next, let's turn up the eye candy!

 

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With the eye cadny on, the Diamond HD4890 XOC doesn't really take too much of a performance hit until the higher resolution. The GTX280 really didn't like the AA/AF that was applied in these tests, and the HD4890 pulled ahead of it.

Crysis Warhead

Next up at bat is Crysis Warhead. It's not a sequel to the first game, but rather a different character. You play through the game in the eyes of a character named Psycho instead of Nomad like you did it in the first installation of the series. Warhead looks better, but tends to kick you in the special spot because it does. Let's see how the HD4890 performs on this game.

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So far, its performing within ~2FPS(frames per second) of the GTX280 which is absolutely fantastic! But how well does it do when we turn on the goodies? Check it out:
 
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Yet again, it stayed right up there with the GTX280. At 1900x1200 it did come very close to the noticable lack of FPS, but did not get to that point. So far, the Diamond HD4890 XOC card is doing very well.

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