Far Cry 2

Far Cry 2 is another foliage-heavy game. Thankfully it’s not nearly as punishing as Crysis, and it’s possible to achieve a good framerate even with all the settings at their highest.

Unlike Crysis, we have a few interesting things going on here for the 5870. First, it manages to just beat out the GTX 295. The second is that it manages to lose to its other multi-GPU competitor, the 4870X2. Among its other single-GPU competitors however it’s no contest, with the 5870 beating the GTX 285 by over 40%.

Meanwhile the 5870 CF once again comes out on top of it all. This is going to be a recurring pattern, folks.

Crysis: Warhead Battleforge
Comments Locked

327 Comments

View All Comments

  • pinguin - Monday, September 28, 2009 - link

    It IS a hard launch as obviously a few cards are available. That consumers rip them off one's hand is another problem...

    Anyway I'll wait until the 5650: 4850 performance w/o PCIe connector + DX11: I'm coming! What else do I need to show off to my friends still staying with rebranded G92 chips!!
  • jabroni619 - Friday, September 25, 2009 - link

    I guess it is, it was even better still when I decided to come home a bit early and UPS got there 2 hours sooner than they usually do. Playing through Crysis Warhead once more "The way it's meant to be played" on an ATI card though.

    Also included was a Dirt 2 code to be activated on steam, which I nearly threw out! Now I just have to wait for the game to be released.
  • camylarde - Thursday, September 24, 2009 - link

    Lol. I was horrified, when i heard that my precious badminton racquet purchased on my friends address in england was "delivered" to the front door, waiting for him all day on the doorstep.

    if the card is gonna wait for you in a similar fashion, may i get to know where do you live to... erm... be there when you open the box and celebrate with you?

    [/envy]
  • SiliconDoc - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - link

    I'm not certain how you saw any available then, looks from 3 different states didn't show that.
    Heck they weren't even active at 8 am, nor later than that. I guess you "got the only one" that wasn't Autonotify when arriving.
  • The0ne - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - link

    This is the last piece of hardware I've been waiting for before I build my i7 system. Now I think it's a ok time for enthusiast to start building again but on a cheaper budget with better performance :) no more of these 200-300 MB and stuff lol
  • gwolfman - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - link

    I agree. Full bit-streaming support! Yeaz!
  • blanarahul - Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - link

    They should have given the option for 5870 to have triple DVI rather than single DVI + Dual DP. :(

Log in

Don't have an account? Sign up now