Crysis bench: ATI 4870 vs 9800GX2

[Waymon3X6]

Wait, I thought one of the biggest reasons the HD2k and HD3k series sucked at playing Crysis was because it was limited by its texture units. nVidia have a lot more texture units and is the reason why it shines in Crysis (and its been more optimized than ATI's GPU's). The HD4850/4870 have twice the amount of texture units, far more shading power and higher clock speeds so its bound to be atleast twice as powerful than the HD3850/3870, which is still faster than any single nVidia GPU, though the GX2 should still be faster.

Also because the nvidia drivers were "cheated" so that when crysis.exe was run, the GPU(s) would sacrifice image quality slightly for better performance. If you were to rename crysis.exe to something else, the performance on a nvidia card would decrease.