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Crysis 2 is a first-person shooter developed by Crytek and is built on the CryEngine 3 engine. While the game was lacking in graphical fidelity upon its release, Crytek has since added feature such as D11 and high quality textures. This improved the in-game visuals substantially, which in turn pushes even high-end hardware to the max.
The Top graph reflects our results at 1920x1080, while the lower graph reflects our results Eyefinity and Surround results at 5760x1080.
In Crysis 2 the GTX 690 again came close to running at double the performance of the GTX 680, but ultimately it was just shy by about 20%. That is still impressive as it is really closing the gap between single and dual GPU solutions while having the same performance per-core. Additionally, once we overclocked both the GPUs, the GTX 690 was actually 93% faster than the GTX 680.
Once again the GTX 690 gave us a smooth gaming experience at 5760x1080. This time the frame rate wasn't as close to 60FPS as in the previous benchmarks, but 44FPS is still well above the 30FPs mark for running without stutter.
Seems too good to be true TBH... I expect Nvidia to have put a catch in somewhere, such as a massive price. How it manages to stay that cool though, even on referecne design which means that when companies start to experiment with cooler layouts, the drop in temp will be even more impressive. Power requirements are too bad either. $1000 is £618, but since that is only about 150 more than what a 680 costs, that is where it seems to good to be true. With it being Britain I'd expect to see another £100-£200 to be added to that.
That LED, whilst having no added functionality to it, makes it look awesome.
EDIT:
As I expected. £809.99, puts it at $1300.
to be honest, id rather dual 680s. if the 690 is priced at 1000, then two 500 dollar 680s would be better.
and nvidia and their aa... gotta love em.
im excited to see txaa in person, since screenshots dont often do justice (fxaa looks good in zoomed-in pictures, but when you play the game itself w/ fxaa its all blurry