Far Cry is a game based on the new Shader 3.0 (DirectX 9.0c) programming model available on series 6 and 7 from nVidia and series X1000 from ATI graphics chips. We’ve updated the game to version 1.3.
As we’ve done on other programs, we ran this game at three resolutions, 1024x768x32, 1280x1024x32 and 1600x1200x32. This game allows several image quality levels and we’ve done our benchmarking on two levels, low and very high. To measure the performance we used the demo created by German magazine PC Games Hardware (PCGH), available at http://www.3dcenter.org/downloads/farcry-pcgh-vga.php. We run this demo four times and made an arithmetical average with the results. This average is the result presented in our graphs.
This game has a very important detail in its image quality configuration. Antialiasing, instead of being configured by numbers (1x, 2x, 4x or 6x) is configured as low, medium or high. The problem is that on nVidia chips both medium and high mean 4x, while on ATI chips medium means 2x and high means 6x, making the comparison between ATI and nVidia chips completely unfair. Because of that we configured antialising at 4x and anisotropic filtering at 8x manually at the video driver control panel.
For further details on how to measure 3D performance with Far Cry, read our tutorial on this subject.
At a resolution of 1024x768 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X1600 XT was 6.15% faster than MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, 7.51% faster than nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, 7.52% faster than nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, 9.28% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT, 10.26% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), 11.23% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 17.38% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 20.34% faster than nVidia GeForce 6800 GT and 28.94% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X1600 XT achieved a performance similar to HIS Radeon X800 GT, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., HIS Radeon X800 GTO, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, ATI Radeon X1600 XT and ATI Radeon X1900 XTX.
At a resolution of 1280x1024 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X1600 XT was 5.16% faster than MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, 5.76% faster than nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, 6.35% faster than nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, 6.96% faster than ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, 9.74% faster than nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, 10.15% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 18.96% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), 57.19% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT, 59.57% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600 and 92.09% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X1600 XT achieved a performance similar to ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., HIS Radeon X800 GT, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, ATI Radeon X1600 XT and Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro.
At a resolution of 1600x1200 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X1600 XT was 8.31% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 12.51% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 33.00% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), 86.81% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 97.89% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 142.33% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X1600 XT achieved a performance similar to ATI Radeon X1600 XT.
HIS Radeon X1600 XT was beaten by ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 21.30% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 20.21% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 19.80% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 17.66% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 13.14% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 12.50% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 11.76% faster, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 10.53% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GT, which was 8.40% faster and nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 7.82% faster.
At a resolution of 1024x768 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X1600 XT was 15.55% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 22.91% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 26.58% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), 98.77% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 130.52% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro and 151.07% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT.
HIS Radeon X1600 XT achieved a performance similar to ATI Radeon X1600 XT.
HIS Radeon X1600 XT was beaten by ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 62.83% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 62.70% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 61.91% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 61.15% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 60.21% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 50.31% faster, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 47.50% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 44.38% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 34.01% faster and HIS Radeon X800 GT, which was 16.51% faster.
At a resolution of 1280x1024 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X1600 XT was 20.25% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 31.33% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 37.18% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), 125.02% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 139.65% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro and 148.97% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT.
HIS Radeon X1600 XT was beaten by ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 122.00% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 109.76% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 106.43% faster, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 102.27% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 100.32% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 97.85% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 58.68% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 51.96% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 35.06% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GT, which was 13.33% faster and ATI Radeon X1600 XT, which was 4.95% faster.
At a resolution of 1600x1200 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X1600 XT was 20.04% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 22.99% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 39.33% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), 112.94% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 198.76% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro and 242.65% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT.
HIS Radeon X1600 XT achieved a performance similar to ATI Radeon X1600 XT.
HIS Radeon X1600 XT was beaten by ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 199.25% faster, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 185.68% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 147.13% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 141.88% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 125.77% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 117.94% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 66.24% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 42.76% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 41.80% faster and HIS Radeon X800 GT, which was 15.49% faster.
