Crysis, and 3DMark Vantage
Crysis numbers are surprisingly low. After running numerous iterations of the FRAPS-measured benchmark, and each run's results within three per cent of one another, we have no valid explanation as to why the Radeon HD 4850 isn't beating seven bells out of the Radeon HD 3870. As such, it falls considerably behind the NVIDIA gaggle.
3DMark Vantage
But the synthetic benchmark that is 3DMark Vantage has the HD 4850 strutting at the top, comfortably ahead of the more-expensive competition.
Don't put too much store in the NVIDIA cards' results; a PhysX-enabled driver, released next month, will boost scores by around 10 per cent.
Problem is that the gains are derived from increases the CPU Test 2's scores, where the PhysX-enabled driver helps NVIDIA to a 7.5x lead over ATI and its own non-PhysX driver.
We suppose that the first in-game manifestation will be with UT3.
