Crysis 2 Benchmarks
Crytec's intensive ego-shooter, Crysis 2, takes everything a high-end laptop graphics card has to offer and still hungers for more. In the following article, we will describe the hardware requirements of this game with various benchmarks.
How We Test
We decided to use the first mission from the single-player campaign (submarine scene) as our benchmark sequence. This scene may not be as demanding as the outdoor battles in later missions but it does give us a good idea about the performance. The recording starts as soon as the protagonist looks up at his colleague. After a short briefing, we ran the character down a red-lit corridor. The recording ended each time at the broken pipe.
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Analysis of the Benchmarks
Crysis 2 always looks good regardless of what settings we pick. To run the game fluidly with high details at a modest resolution (1024x768 pixels or less), the user will need a middle-class GPU such as the Radeon HD 6650M or the GeForce GT 540M.
Very high details and a resolution of 1366x768 pixels requires at least a Radeon HD 6770M or a GeForce GeForce GT 555M.
The Extreme setting with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels can only be run halfway well on high-end graphic cards such as the Radeon HD 6990M or the GeForce GTX 580M.
Gamers who want the absolute best (Ultra-Preset + DirectX-11 + High-Res-Textures), need a dual-GPU system with two HD 6990Ms or two GTX 580Ms or a high-end desktop graphics card.
An overview of the games we have tested can be found here.
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| 5 | stutters - The game probably won't run fluently in this settings with this graphics card as at least one average framerate lies below the limit of 25fps |
| may stutter - Interpolated information. A slower graphics card was not able to run the game fluently and there are no benchmarks for this card. Therefore, this one may probably also not run. | |
| 30 | fluent - The game should run fluently as all known benchmarks are above the limit of 25fps |
| 40 | fluent - The game should run fluently as all known benchmarks are above the limit of 35fps |
| may run fluently - A slower graphics card achieved playable framerates and there are no benchmarks for this card. Therefore, this faster card may be able to run the game fluently. | |
| 123 | unsure - Either the minimal achieved framerate was below the border, but still the average was above, or a slower card achieved playable framerates but this one not. |
| unsure - A slower card was flagged as unsure and there are no benchmarks for this card. | |
| The value in the fields displays the average framerate of all values in the database. Move you mouse over the value to see the single results. | |
