Crysis 3
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Crysis 3 is a beautiful-looking game that continues to tax high-end systems. We've benchmarked a 60-second section near the start of the game, with lashing rain, numerous reflections and full DX11 pomp on show. 4xMSAA is enabled at 1080p and disabled at 4K.
Achieving an average of 60 frames per second in Crysis 3 at 4K can be considered the gold standard in graphics, and the three GTX 980s packaged in Gigabyte's WaterForce come close to reaching that level. All three GPUs are needed in order to make the game playable at this resolution; it's choppy with two GTX 980s or a Radeon R9 295X2.
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No surprises here, you only need to play the game to realise it can be a choppy and stuttering experience. Neither setup delivers perfect results (all frames within 17ms and fast slow frames), but the 3-way WaterForce is of course the best option funds permitting.
Interesting to note, however, that we did still encounter a fair amount of tearing and as such we would recommend a G-Sync setup to try and alleviate any such hiccups.
