Sapphire HD7870 W/ Boost (Tahiti LE) Review

1. Introduction2. Sapphire HD7870 Tahiti LE3. Sapphire HD7870 Tahiti LE (Super High Res Gallery)4. Testing Methodology and Overclocking5. Synthetic: Unigine Heaven Benchmark6. Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage7. Synthetic: 3DMark 118. Gaming: Alien V Predator (DX11)9. Gaming: Total War Shogun 2 (DX11)10. Gaming: Far Cry 2 (DX 10)11. Gaming: Far Cry 3 (DX11)12. Gaming: Dirt Showdown (DX11)13. Gaming: Sleeping Dogs (DX11)14. Gaming: Max Payne 3 (DX11)15. Technical: Thermal Dynamics16. Technical: Acoustics Performance17. Technical: Power Consumption18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

Far Cry 2 (commonly abbreviated as “FC2 or “fc2″) is an open-ended first-person shooter developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It was released on October 21, 2008 in North America and on October 23, 2008 in Europe and Australia. It was made available on Steam on October 22, 2008. Crytek, the developers of the original game, were not involved in the development of Far Cry 2.

Ubisoft has marketed Far Cry 2 as the true sequel to Far Cry, though the sequel has very few noticeable similarities to the original game. Instead, it features completely new characters and setting, as well as a new style of gameplay that allows the player greater freedom to explore different African landscapes such as deserts, jungles, and savannas. The game takes place in a modern-day East African nation in a state of anarchy and civil war. The player takes control of a mercenary on a lengthy journey to locate and assassinate “The Jackal,” a notorious arms dealer.

Far Cry 2 is still a popular game and the open world environment can be taxing on even the latest hardware available today.

Settings: 2560×1600, D3D10, Disable Artificial Intelligence(No), Full Screen, Anti-Aliasing(8x), VSync(No), Overall Quality(Ultra High), Vegetation(Very High), Shading(Ultra High), Terrain(Ultra High), Geometry(Ultra High), Post FX(High), Texture(Ultra High), Shadow(Ultra High), Ambient(High), Hdr(Yes), Bloom(Yes), Fire(Very High), Physics(Very High), RealTrees(Very High).

This engine has always favoured Nvidia hardware and we can see that the manually overclocked GTX660 OC claims the top performance spot in this test. The AMD cards are a little behind, although all solutions are perfectly playable at these settings.

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