Why would you want to move the Tessellation slider down?! Are you suggesting we compare apples to oranges instead of other apples?

Why?

If i was running an AMD card and the performance was a little subpar with everything maxed, that is the first thing that i would do for myself

Actually, i want to do a comparison of the AMD tessellation slider
- it would make an interesting article


For my published performance benches, however, nothing changes .. apples to apples

And i am D/Ling Crysis 2 right now

"And i am D/Ling Crysis 2 right now"

Cool, you gonna do a "real" review on it? Not like the one I linked.

What's a "real" review?


i am not going to review Crysis 2 (like i did DNF and will do Alice) - i am going to "have to" play it this weekend but i may not finish it (as i have 3 other articles i am writing right now)
- just a performance evaluation.

Are you looking for a performance review? i would compare the GTX 580/590 to HD 6970/6990; and if i have time, lesser cards from both vendors
- then i would look at the 3D Vision aspect of it.

Crysis 2 will be a new DX11 bench for me.

Yea a performance review....thats great!

Better than that Kyle moron over at hardocp....This guy runs the most biased site I ever seen. Not only does he put the fear of god into anyone who wants to install it , he delibertly tries to show the graphics are not at all better.

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/06/ ... xture_pack

Actually, Kyle is quite smart. He created "real world" benches - something that simply cannot be confirmed.

i can take his same benches and run them and adjust his own settings slightly also to favor anything you want to. With Kyle it is a religion - either you believe - or you mock (and are banned)

Here at ABT we do things differently. Apples to apples. Same maxed out settings for both cards with downward adjustments made to both cards if they cannot run maxed settings at 1920x1200.

The first thing I would be doing is returning the turd of a card for a refund and spending the money on a nvidia card............

I really, really truly despise hardocp GPU reviews.

The 6990 and 6970 are very good cards. i would not let an issue of playing with slightly less tessellation spoil ANY good gaming experience. You don't play in S3D and have no real clue what you are missing but you put it down at every chance you get..

You would never have an AMD graphics card anyway; so your point is moot

Hmm! I must say, "QFT". QFHGoT (Quoted for the Holy Grail of Truth)! Perhaps Kyle could take note of this, but then perhaps not...

That Crysis 2 video does look quite impressive, showing LOTS of differences between DX9 and DX11. More than Kyle would try to convince us.. of course, Kyle is against it rather than appreciating to a greater degree that Crytek has indeed worked long and hard on giving us DX11 and high-res textures. S3D is another story and to play games in S3D now means that in the future, you won't regret having not played it in S3D in the past when S3D becomes a mainstream thing, a norm for all games and gamers.. like having to watch all of your favorite movies again in high-def.