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.
We've not used the PhysX-enabled driver for the GeForce series of cards because we're not completely happy by the way at which it arrives at the final score, flouting the 3DMark Vantage approval policy, where CPU Test 2, which gains the most from the CUDA-written PhysX drivers, isn't allowed to be run on anything other than a CPU.
