'When we played Crysis 2 on the consoles, we honestly could have taken or left it. Only on the PC do we feel comfortable recommending and replaying Crytek’s best game yet – and its first chance of matching technical prowess with good game design. '
Crysis 2 is incredibly taxing on all components in a system, from CPU to GPU, so we've chosen to test without AA to generate meaningful and playable frame rates above 1,920 x 1,080. Otherwise, we run the game at its highest 'Ultra' settings and with both the DX11 tessellation pack and high-resolution texture packs installed.
We use the Adrenaline Crysis 2 Benchmark Tool to automate our testing, but capture results in-game using FRAPs as the tool's ability to record minimum frame-rates is inconsistent.
We test using the Times Square time demo, recording minimum and average frame rates from frame 1000 to frame 4900 of the time demo, with the result being the average over 3 runs.
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Crysis 2
1,920 x 1,080, 0x AA, Edge AA on, Ultra Settings, DX11, High Res textures
AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB GHz Edition
Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 4GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 2GB
AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 2GB
AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB with Boost
AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB
AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB
AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB
Zotac GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB amp! Edition
EVGA GeForce 650 Ti 1GB SSC
AMD Radeon HD 7770 1GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 1GB
AMD Radeon HD 7750 1GB
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Crysis 2
2,560 x 1,600, 0x AA, Edge AA on, Ultra Settings, DX11, High Res textures
Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 4GB
AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB GHz Edition
AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 2GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 2GB
AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB with Boost
AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB
AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB
AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB
Zotac GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB amp! Edition
EVGA GeForce 650 Ti 1GB SSC
AMD Radeon HD 7770 1GB
AMD Radeon HD 7750 1GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 1GB
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39
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36
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Crysis 2
5,760 x 1,080, 0x AA, Edge AA on, Ultra Settings, DX11, High Res textures