Review: AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

by Tarinder Sandhu on 22 June 2012, 05:00 4.0

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Benchmarks - Crysis 2

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Homepage: ea.com/crysis-2 | Publisher: Electronic Arts | Developer: Crytek

Crysis 2 may not have lived up to the expectations set by its predecessor, but with the DX11 patch and high-res textures, it's a gorgeous-looking game.

NVIDIA keeps the lead at the full-HD, 1,920x1,080-resolution test, AMD almost has parity at the highest setting. We use the Ultra in-game settings to exact the largest toll on the graphics cards, but the preset is such that it uses an ungodly amount of tessellation throughout the test. Knock the settings down to Extreme - and we cannot discern the difference between the two when playing through the game - and AMD pulls ahead by around seven per cent at the 2,560x1,600 resolution.