Far Cry 2: GPU and CPU benchmarks

[Risco]

Well here are the benchmarks you have been waiting for! Seems the 8400 + 4870 is the way to go, also really good scaling for multi gpu ( 81% for SLI ) Only problem is he seems to forget you should run without AA/AF in a cpu benchmark or it puts the onus back on the gpu...

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,..._and_CPU_benchmarks/?article_id=663817&page=1

Ubisoft confirmed what the previously promised: The Dunia Engine really benefits a lot from multi-core CPUs. Therefore a Core 2 Quad Q6600 with 2.4 GHz is as fast as a Core 2 Duo E8400 with 3 GHz. Unlike Crysis for example, Far Cry 2 still benefits from a faster CPU even with a Radeon HD 4870 running at 1,680 x 1,050 with 4x FSAA and 16:1 AF - it seems like the workload is divided to the individual components in a better way.

Like the chart reveals that on a Phenom CPU the game even benefits from four cores compared to three cores. A Phenom X4 9950 overclocked to 3 GHz is about as fast as a Q6600. With a single-core CPU you shouldn't try to run Far Cry 2 at high details: the Athlon 64 6000+ reaches less than 10 fps with one core.

The Radeon HD 4870 with 512 MiByte is beating the new Geforce GTX 260 with 216 Shader ALUs in every test. It even offers enough performance to play at 1,920 x 1,200 with 4x FSAA and 4:1 AF. But the best performance is offered with an SLI setup: a second GTX 260 increases the performance by up to 81 percent. The Radeon HD 4870 X2 on the other hand isn't scaling very well though - we hope for a driver update. All our tests were run on DX10.

 

[EastCoasthandle]

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