Crysis is seen by many as the poster boy for DirectX 10 and it will make your system cry, quite literally – it’s a monster! It doesn’t come as much of a surprise then, that the graphics are something special – they’re above and beyond anything we’ve ever seen in a PC game.
We used the latest 1.21 patch and range the game in 64-bit and DirectX 10 mode in a custom level run through.
Crysis 1.21
1280x1024, 0xAF, 0xAA, All Medium Settings
Core 2 Duo E8500 (2x3.16GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
Core 2 Duo E8400 (2x3.0GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
Core 2 Duo E6850 (2x3.0GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
Core 2 Duo E6750 (2x2.66GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
Core 2 Duo E8200 (2x2.66GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
Core 2 Quad Q6700 (4x2.67GHz, 1,066MHz FSB)
Core 2 Duo E6550 (2x2.33GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
Core 2 Duo Q6600 (4x2.40GHz, 1,066MHz FSB)
AMD Athlon X2 6400+ (2x3.2GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
AMD Athlon X2 6000+ (2x3.0GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
Core 2 Duo E4500 (2x2.20GHz, 800MHz)
AMD Phenom 9600 (4x2.3GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
AMD Phenom 9500 (4x2.2GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
48.3
47.6
44.8
44.2
43.4
41.5
38.4
38.3
35.9
34.7
32.7
31.2
30.6
0
10
20
30
40
50
Frames Per Second - higher is better
Crysis 1.21
1600x1200, 0xAF, 0xAA, All High Settings
Core 2 Duo E8500 (2x3.16GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
Core 2 Duo E8400 (2x3.0GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
Core 2 Duo E6850 (2x3.0GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
Core 2 Quad Q6700 (4x2.67GHz, 1,066MHz FSB)
Core 2 Duo E6750 (2x2.66GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
Core 2 Duo E8200 (2x2.66GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
Core 2 Duo Q6600 (4x2.40GHz, 1,066MHz FSB)
Core 2 Duo E6550 (2x2.33GHz, 1,333MHz FSB)
AMD Athlon X2 6400+ (2x3.2GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
AMD Athlon X2 6000+ (2x3.0GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
AMD Phenom 9600 (4x2.3GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
AMD Phenom 9500 (4x2.2GHz, 1.8GHz HTT)
Core 2 Duo E4500 (2x2.20GHz, 800MHz)
29.8
28.2
27.7
27.6
27.5
27.5
27.4
26.4
25.9
25.8
24.7
24.3
24.2
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Frames Per Second - higher is better
While the E6750 seems to be a bit more at home than the newer E8200, the situation is reversed to a larger degree when you get to the faster E6850 versus the E8400. Both of which pull a couple of frames per second out over the rest of the competition. Crysis seems dependent on clock speed as opposed to core count - the Phenoms and Intel quad-cores don't fair as well as the high clocked dual-core CPUs and even with both AMD and Intel systems running identically clocked DDR2 - the Intel parts still nose ahead by several frames per second.
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