Crysis 3
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Crysis 3 is a beautiful-looking game that continues to tax high-end systems. We've FRAPS'd a 30-second section near the start of the game, with lashing rain, numerous reflections and full DX11 pomp on show.
Crysis 3 continues to be the yardstick by which many gamers judge the power of a graphics card. Radeon R9 295X2 is handsomely faster than anything else out there, and the only one capable of breaching the 30fps average framerate barrier.
Indicating the severity of this test in another way, enthusiast-class single-GPU cards cannot produce more than a couple of sub-33ns frames during the entire run. This game requires huge horsepower above all else... and that's what dual-GPU cards bring to the table. As expected, AMD's Vesuvius blows away the competition.
Dual-GPU cards might well produce the fastest frames but they're not good when we look at the slowest frames that directly impact gameplay. HD 7990 and GTX 690 struggle, badly, with certain frames, and we visually noticed the odd judder and slowdown when running around through the level.
The R9 295X2, meanwhile, puts up a much better showing, likely down to that large 4GB framebuffer, and it's a match for single-GPU cards in this regard.
