Introducing AMD’s “Turks” – HD 6670 and HD 6570
FarCry 2
Far Cry 2 uses the name of the original Far Cry but it is not connected to the first game as it brings you a new setting and a new story. Ubisoft created it based on their Dunia Engine. The game setting takes place in an unnamed African country, during an uprising between two rival warring factions. Your mission is to kill “The Jackal”; the Nietzsche-quoting mercenary that arms both sides of the conflict that you are dropped into.
The Far Cry 2 game world is loaded in the background and on the fly to create a completely seamless open world. The Dunia game engine provides good visuals that scale well. The Far Cry 2 design team actually went to Africa to give added realism to this game. One thing to especially note is Far Cry 2’s very realistic fire propagation by their engine that is a far cry from the scripted fire and explosions that we are used to seeing.
First we test Far Cry 2 benchmark at 1920×1200 resolution and we use the Ranch Long benchmark with ultra settings plus 8xAA.
Now we test at 1680×1050 with 8xAA.
Finally we stay at 1680×1050 but drop the AA from 8x- to 2xAA.
n Far Cry 2, the GTX 550 Ti is faster than the HD 6790 and the GTS 450 even beats the overclocked HD 6670 by a large margin.
great review mark! Huge piles of data, thats what i love about the abt. I totally agree with your conclusion which is spot on. Given the gts450 and hd5770 may not be around for much longer these cards should be a great option in the future but for now there are some really nice price/performance options in the same bracket and they just dont shine through them. In time they may fall in place when some of these killer deals from the last generation slowly slip out of the picture.