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Next we move on to Crysis, a science fiction first person shooter by Crytek. It remains one of the most demanding games for any PC and it is also still one of the most beautiful games released to date. Crysis is based in a fictional near-future where an alien spacecraft is discovered buried on an island near the coast of Korea. The single-player campaign has you assume the role of USA Delta Force, ‘Nomad’ who is armed with futuristic weapons and equipment. Crysis uses DirectX10 for graphics rendering.

A standalone but related game, Crysis Warhead was released last year. CryEngine2 is the game engine used to power Crysis and Warhead and it is an extended version of the CryEngine that also powers FarCry. As well as supporting Shader Model 2.0, 3.0, and DirectX10’s 4.0, CryEngine2 is also multi-threaded to take advantage of dual core SMP-aware systems and Crytek has developed their own proprietary physics system, called CryPhysics. However, it is noted that actually playing this game is a bit slower than the demo implies.

GPU Demo, Island

All of our settings are set to in-game’s second setting, “high” with no AA (1xAA) except for testing the GT 430 and GT 430′s overclock on “medium” settings as noted on the chart. For all settings, we force 16xAF in the vendors’ control panels. Here is Crysis’ Island Demo benchmark at 1440×900:

Crysis is not playable on the GT 430 on all “high” settings at 1440×900 and no overclock will make it so. Yet far worse is GT 220, so that we see there is good performance to be had going from one GPU generation to the next by upgrading to GT 430. However, once you set the in-game Crysis settings to all “medium”, it becomes very playable – especially overclocked. Crysis on all medium settings still looks very good and you may even consider 2xAA with your GT 430!

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arcade flyer

while i understand that it’s nice to have gts 450 and hd 5750 scores for a bit of context, can i ask why you haven’t included the hd 5570 and/or hd 5670 as, being the gt 430′s main competitors, they are rather important in terms of how much value this card actually is…?
apoppin

Thanks for your comment. As reviewers, we use what we have. I do not have HD 5570 nor HD 5670 to use for comparison.

However, as I pointed out in my Galaxy GT 430 evaluation, this is only “Part 1″. Part two will cover HD 4290 IG and using GT 430 as a dedicated PhysX card. If I can get ahold of HD 5570, I will also include it.

As I understand it, GT 430 is primarily a HTPC card first with an emphasis on BluRay 3D movies. It is a direct successor to GT 220 which serves a similar purpose in Nvidia’s lineup. As a successor, it works much better than the GT 220 which will probably get further discounted. And the GT 430 success will also depend on its market pricing.
Arkadrel

@arcade flyer,
Since the HD5670 card costs the same as the 430 (79.99 on newegg), and typically beats it by a large margin (from the other review sites ive seen). I agree it makes little sense that its not compaired with the 430. Even the HD5570 should beat it by a little bit, and be selling cheaper. The 5670 in the benchmarks at tomshardware/HardOCP/Anandtech, is almost pulling twice as much frames pr secound in most of the tests (games).

@apoppin,
if its emphasis is on bluRay 3d movies, why isnt in the review? instead of 21 games tested. Also could you test out ATIs blueray 3d? in 10.3 I believe they added support for it, and that “middleware vendors” now have glasses out for it too.
apoppin

You seem to miss that there is a “Part Two” part of my GT 430 review coming. And although I do not have a HD 5570 or HD 5670 (Leon has them in Jamaica; there was no time to get the GT 430 to him for his evaluation). I will also save this card for evaluation when the HD 6500/6600 series is out.

There are many ways to evaluate a product and my approach focused on the GT 430 as a successor to GT 220. The GT 220 was not a strong gaming card; the GT 430 is much faster, yet GT 220 had a solid and successful place in Nvidia’s lineup. In this way, the GT 430 succeeds. And as I stated, “price” and market positioning will determine its level of success. It also appears to excel at 3D BluRay playback which leaves it in a rather unique position for now.

Now this is a tech site where each editor has his own interests and specialties. My evaluations and BFG10K’s reviews are from the perspective of a gamer. MrK is very interested in video playback and encoding and you will always see that featured in his evaluations.

Soon we expect to receive a 3D vision kit from Nvidia and we will be very happy to evaluate 3D video playback and 3D games in future reviews. We are always looking to bring more to our readers.
arcade flyer

@apoppin

thanks for replying. i appreciate that you can only use what you have. of course the gt430 is a light/mid card geared towards hd media decoding and casual gaming rather than hd gaming. anyway, i look forward to part 2 for a more complete picture.
Arkadrel

quotes from AnandTech:

“..GT 430 simply isn’t competitive with AMD’s 5570 and 5670 in gaming performance..”

Some games the 5670 has almost twice the fps rates, like in Battlefield bad company 2, at 1280×1024 medium quality settings Chase bench. The 430 is scoreing around 36 fps vs the 5670s 62 fps.

Thats a HUGE differnce, for 2 cards priced the same.

“..If image quality absolutely matters to you, then the Radeon 5570 is definitely the card to get for the time being”

HQV 2 benchmark for image quality, the 5570/5670 cards score ALOT higher.

“So if NVIDIA stumbles on image quality, where do they excel? 3D stereoscopy.”

so… 430 is a card for people that want 3d Steroscopy, only how many people actually have a tv that has 120+ mhz refresh rates?
http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?cat=3 apoppin

To answer your question,

Improvements in technology and content availability will lead to “tremendous growth” in 3DTV sales in the next few years, according to a study out of DisplaySearch. The research outfit forecast 3DTV sales of 3.2 million this year and a whopping 90 million by 2014.
-Source: TWICE (10/13) Home Media Magazine (10/13)

GT 430 is a great successor to GT 220 – which was no flop. I am certain any IQ issues will be fixed in drivers and it will serve as an excellent HTPC videocard that can do light to moderate gaming.
Wendell

I am very interested in this card. I like the lower memory speed and the large fan. The gaming performance does not interest me. A 20 or 30 dollar price difference is not a big deal either. What this shopper wants to know is which has more reliable drivers, Nvidia or AMD. My needs are for HTPC. Mostly Internet TV and Video Streaming. People with new HDTV just want somting to get an HDMI connection with audio going on. I mostly look at the power consumption,heat and noise specs.I am not familar with Galaxy but it is so far the best design I have seen for my needs.
apoppin

Nvidia’s and AMD’s drivers and support are both top notch. You can’t go wrong with either company for your needs.
Wolfniggr

I had recently called Galaxy’s “US” support line in regard to Xtreme Tuner HD. Not only was the person on the phone unfamiliar with the program, but for being the North American support line he was not the most fluent in English. I can speak 3 languages unfortunately, I’m not well versed in Hindi.

I later emailed Galaxy support with a simple and specific question. It’s now been over a week and I have yet to hear back.

I’ve also read on numerous websites that support for Galaxy is horrible and pointless. When you called and spoke with them, what was asked?
apoppin

I can certainly call Galaxy tech support again.

However, there is a Galaxy representative that responds to our forum member’s issues. I would be glad to put him in contact with you. Why not sign up on our forum and post your issue there?
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