Benchmarks - Crysis 2
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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.
Here's one benchmark where the Sapphire HD 7970 TOXIC has to play second fiddle to the EVGA GTX 680 Classified.
Per-second framerates vary wildly. The benchmark runs through a sequence as fast as possible hence the shorter lines for the two GeForce cards. EVGA's is top dog here.
This graph shows that while the average and per-second framerate of the EVGA card is better than the 6GB-equipped Sapphire TOXIC, both produce a near-identical number of sub-33ms frames. Of more interest is the 2,204MB framebuffer usage when running the EVGA card, suggesting that the game, set to Ultra quality, is stifled by the standard GTX 680's 2GB. We ran the game on both GTX 680s directly after one another and didn't feel the extra smoothness implied by the results of the 4GB-totin' card.
