Cryostasis Performance Compared

With maximal details and activated additional effects Cryostasis easily downs even a Geforce GTX 285 at 1,680 x 1,050. Even with a Geforce 8800 GT dedicated to run the Physx effects - which increases the performance by about 20 percent - the system reaches only 33 fps. At 1,280 x 800 the title is running with more than 30 fps on a GTX 260-216, but during fight scenes the framerate nevertheless drops to an unplayable level. With a slower graphics card you shouldn't even think about highest details and the same applies to Radeon cards: Here the additional effects have to be calculated by the CPU - too much for the overclocked Core i7 of our test system and the framerate drops below 10 fps. The old trick to combine a modern Radeon with an Ageia PPU works in Cryostasis too: The Radeon HD 4890 combined with the Physx card reached 25 respectively 37 fps and thus can place itself between the GTX 260-216 and the GTX 285.