Far Cry 2

Far Cry 2 – DirectX 10

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Card	Min FPS	Max FPS
GeForce GTX 260-216	25.9	46.3
GeForce GTX 275	27.1	50.9
GeForce GTX 280	27.3	50.4
GeForce GTX 285	28.2	52.5
GeForce 8800 GTX	20.4	33.2
Radeon HD 4870 1GB	28	55.4
Radeon HD 4890 1GB	29.4	58.9
Radeon HD 4890 1GB CrossFire	32.9	77

Notes

While Far Cry 2 has traditionally been a toss-up for us between ATI and NVIDIA, in the last month or so, the Radeon 4800 series cards have managed to begin to open up a small lead in this benchmark. This continues with the Radeon 4890 pulling ahead of the GTX 275 and even the GTX 285 in our benchmarks, which was a bit of a surprise to us. The CrossFire setup appears to be held back by the Core i7-920 CPU at 1600x1200 and 1920x1200, only at 2560x1600 does it begin to pull away from the single-GPU configs. The Radeon 4890 continues to outpace the 4870 by nearly 9% while the GTX 275 runs up to 13% faster than the GTX 260.