which card is better for crysis?

4870 x2 or the gtx 280? i would just check the benchmarks online but they seem to vary in this case. are they any new cards coming in the next few weeks?

 

are you talking about the HD 4870 x2? If so, yes. The gtx 280 can have physx installed on it for games that support physx though. tough choices man.

 

i didnt like the way my 4870, or my crossfired 4850's played crysis, alot of stutter even with high framerates, so i went with a gtx 280 and it plays very smooth, the card is amazing for a single gpu, so id say get a gtx 280, you can always sli down the road too, but i think one is perfect enough for crysis from 1920x1200 and below with high/very high settings

 

nice, i know people are saying the 4870 x 2( the one with two gpus on one card not crossfire single gpus) is better than the gtx 280 but the physics card support is a good thing, and crysis was designed with nvidia in mind so i guess its not a suprise it runs it better.

i plan on playing

1920 x 1200
high/very high
no vsync

2x aa , 2 x af if possible or needed

also i will use vista but dx9. i know it makes no differance , anyne know about warhead though ?

 

the gtx 280 will run many games smoother, call of duty 4 stuttered on my ati as well while my gtx 280 didnt. You should be fine for those crysis settings however remember that AA will kill performance in crysis. Dx9 in both crysis and crysis warhead have better performance and is what i use. Plus you should keep vsync on also, it eliminates page tearing, which still occurs even if your below 60 frames per second. Crysis warhead will run better than crysis, im currently playing warhead maxed out at 1920x1200 with 30-40 frames, the gtx 280 also has a very good minimum framerate, the best setting for this card in order to get about 50 frames on average, with little or no visual quality deduction is this for crysis warhead....

Set all to enthusiast, but set post processing and shadows to gamer, you could also set shaders to gamer since its not too different, and you will have fluid gameplay

 

Apparently the 280 is better at higher resolutions. Give edge AA a try, it works on foliage and doesn't confer much of a performance hit. In the console it's r_useedegeAA 2. As for DX9 vs 10, definitely use 9. DX10 performance is pretty disappointing so far in Warhead, Crytek needs to fix it.

 

For the price of the GTX 280, you'll get better performance by SLIing two GTX 260s. Some games will even play around two times faster on the GTX 260 SLI if they're optimized decently for SLI, though you'll probably expect a 50% better framerate on average over the GTX 280.

 

GTX 280 by far

 

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