Crytek became famous with their Far Cry first person shooter game, not only for the open-ended gameplay but also because of the stellar system requirements to be able to play the game at high detail. Crysis is their second game and doesn’t disappoint in either gameplay or system requirements.

Crysis offers several methods to test performance with their game, they include two batch files, one geared toward CPU testing, the other toward GPU testing. These two methods provide very repeatable results but unfortunately don’t reflect real gameplay performance, and only give you an indication of how the game will run.

We used this Crysis benchmark tool which enables you to define a custom time demo; using the build-in “Assault” run-through we measured performance of both cards. We briefly tested the 64-bit executable included with Crysis when installed on a 64-bit OS, but performance was actually lower with no IQ benefit, so we stuck to the 32-bit .exe for all our tests.