MSI N460GTX Cyclone 768D5/OC Video Card Review
Far Cry 2
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Far Cry 2 is based on an entirely new game engine called Dunia, which is DirectX 10 when played under Windows Vista with a DirectX 10 compatible video card.
We used the benchmarking utility that comes with this game, setting image quality to High (x8 anti-aliasing) and running the “Ranch Long” demo three times. The results below are expressed in frames per second and are an arithmetic average of the three results collected.
| FarCry 2 – Maximum | 1680×1050 | Difference |
| Radeon HD 5850 | 75.8 | 8.2% |
| GeForce GTX 465 | 72.5 | 3.6% |
| MSI N460GTX Cyclone | 70.1 | |
| GeForce GTX 460 | 70.0 | 0.1% |
| Radeon HD 5830 | 65.6 | 6.8% |
| FarCry 2 – Maximum | 1920×1200 | Difference |
| Radeon HD 5850 | 63.2 | 9.0% |
| GeForce GTX 465 | 60.4 | 4.1% |
| GeForce GTX 460 | 58.0 | 0.1% |
| MSI N460GTX Cyclone | 58.0 | |
| Radeon HD 5830 | 53.5 | 8.4% |
| FarCry 2 – Maximum | 2560×1600 | Difference |
| Radeon HD 5850 | 42.7 | 52.9% |
| GeForce GTX 465 | 38.2 | 36.8% |
| MSI N460GTX Cyclone | 28.0 | |
| GeForce GTX 460 | 26.4 | 5.8% |
| Radeon HD 5830 | 23.8 | 17.6% |