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Running Crysis WarHead on 14 Graphics Cards - A GeForce GTX 280 delivered more performance than a Radeon HD 4870 X2

The world of high demanding games widens every day. While the level of realism of games rises at a constant rate, graphics card manufacturers have to keep up with providing the powerful hardware support which can enable users to fully enjoy the game play. Both game developers and graphics solution makers have difficult tasks to fulfill in order to raise the performance bar with each and every new release.

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thereapersson5697d ago

I think in another couple months i'll upgrade to a better card, maybe the 9800 or something if I can find a good deal. Hopefully by christmas or new year's, they will have all sorts of sales, so I can upgrade for cheaper than I could at the current time.

JDW5697d ago

Yeah...the gtx280 wins at the lower quality level....but the 4870x2 wins when the game is maxed out.

Look at the two graphs and you will see this.

FordGTGuy5697d ago (Edited 5697d ago )

Good luck trying to buy a single Radeon 4870 for less then $500. I'm buying a GTX 260 that comes with Crysis for free for $260.

Here Is My Computer In A Nutshell:
CPU: E8400 Core 2 Duo
GPU: EVGA GTX 260
HDD: 1 TB Samsung F1 Spinpoint
RAM: G.Skill 4 GB(2x2 GB) DDR2 800.
Monitor: Acer 22" LCD Widescreen

So far with everything together including non-listed items the computer is $1060~ to build yet out performs the Best Buy's $2000 computer.

EsbenPyrallis5696d ago

Most 4870s are $300 or less. Did you mean the X2 cards?

FordGTGuy5696d ago

The lowest costing Radeon 4870 with 2 GB is $530~

agentace5696d ago

lol that basicly the same setup im using on the computer im building

karlostomy5696d ago

Dude, do some homework before you post

The 4870 is NOT same as the 4870x2
A 4870x2 is basically TWO 4870s on one card, negating the need to SLI/crossfire.

The 4870x2 will run pretty much any game, except crysis, better than a 280.

http://anandtech.com/video/...
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Shroomy5697d ago

When ATI wins with Nvidia adds are in the startup, it's a pure c**k slap to the face for Nvidia.

trancefreak5696d ago

lol and for the money i would take the 4870 too. I wish they would benchmark the 8800gtx still so can see where my cards at.

tbh i wouldnt go upgrading my nvidia 8800 gtx still. war head played good on my rig with some tweaks.

moses5696d ago

A 4870 isn't even close to a GTX 280, hell it's out performed by the GTX 260, which is only 220$ on Newegg.com.
You must be thinking of the 4870x2 which is 2GPU's crossfired on one card. Which, yes beats a single GTX 280, but costs more, and has two GPU's compared to the GTX 280's one.

Midrange 100~200$ Ati wins with the 4850
Higher Midrange 200~300$ Nvidia Wins with both GTX 260 and GTX 260 216 core
High Range, it's a toss up really, there are so many versions and price variations between the GTX 280 and the 4870X2, it's hard to tell. But the best performer of all being the 4870X2 without a doubt.

Shroomy5696d ago

4870 wasn't spose to compete with the GTX series originally, but it did and in most benchmarks it either equaled or surpassed it, the 4870X2 destroyed them in certain benchies.

ATI are full of surprises lately.

steve30x5696d ago

I had a 4870 which was a fantastic GPU for its price. My problem was as soon as I enabled Anti Aliasing the performance went to the dogs. I sold the 4870 and now have a GTX 280 which I overclocked. This GPU is a whole workld faster than the 4870 I had and I can enable 16x aa in all games. I also had the 4870 overclocked but it was poor with AA enabled.

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You will soon be able to play the entire single-player campaigns of Crysis & Crysis Warhead in co-op

DSOGaming writes: "The new 2019 version of this mod will allow you to play the single-player campaigns of both Crysis and Crysis Warhead in co-op. The mod will also replace Gamespy with Steam."

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Fishy Fingers1635d ago

If ever there was a facepalm comment....

KwietStorm_BLM1635d ago

Were you being serious or just dumb on purpose to get a laugh?

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yoshatabi1635d ago

A videogame is a videogame. Wtf are you on about?

SinkingSage1634d ago

Yes, on PC where you don't pay a fee to play with your friends.

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isarai1635d ago

Really hoping that tease from their latest tech demo turns out to be a new game or maybe remaster/remake of the first game. The first and warhead are still my favorite in the series

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Chard1635d ago

I can’t even get Warhead to boot up on windows 10. None of the fixes I found online helped, at best it hangs at the loading screen for the first level

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TheColbertinator1635d ago

The blueprint of great graphics for decades to come.

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Crysis & Crysis: Warhead are now available on GOG, and are completely DRM-free

Crysis and Crysis: Warhead are often described as some of the best first-person shooters of modern-day. Contrary to the next parts of the series, these two titles offered really large environments in which players could cause havok and approach their objectives via different routes. And we are happy to report that both of these games are now available on GOG, completely DRM-free.

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Five Facts - Pirate Punishments Part 2

Ryan and Jack bring you another five facts on Pirate Punishments.

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