No Crysis 2 graphic doesn't suck compared to Crysis 1. It's just much more scalable with various rigs. If max settings, it'd look nicer.

Doesn't the Catalyst has specific profile on every applications e.g. Turn Off MLAA for WLM, and so on..

MLAA is basically blurring the whole picture with a post process filter. Something like smudging in Photoshop.

It's updated to 10.11 at AMD website already.

Win x86
Win x64

Performance Improvements:-
The following performance improvements were observed with this release of AMD Catalyst 10.11:

• Battleforge™ : Performance increases up to 3% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing disabled.
• STALKER – Call of Pripyat™ benchmark: Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations

This post has been edited by Demonic Wrath: Nov 18 2010, 01:33 PM

Use the drivers provided by AMD. Version 10.10e.

Okay, given that Metro 2033 is optimized for CPU PhysX, I wonder how a dual core/quad core perform if using CPU physx. That article shows hexacore and I doubt a lot of people here is using that. Even if the developer multithreads the PhysX code heavily and make use of multicore processors, a dual core/quad core still can't really compete with GPU in Physx even if multithreaded.

If optimized, most likely a 9600GT will perform on par with a x6 1060T.

GTX 260M, 9800M GTX. If 300 series, then it's GTS 360M (higher performance than Mob. HD5830).

M. HD5830 is a lot faster than GT 435M IINM since GT 435M is slower than 9800M GTX.

No, it won't. If you run into CPU bottleneck, most probably it's already around (or more) 80 FPS. And it depends on your monitor resolution too. If you're running 2560x1600, you'll rarely run into CPU bottleneck woth a HD6870.

Uh-oh.. someone's got an explanation to do... Looks like AMD is downgrading the IQ for better performance..
Testing NVIDIA vs AMD Image Quality
Source: AMD Radeon HD6870 test

Yes, optimization is normal. AMD does make the option to turn off Catalyst AI, but usually in benchmarks, the testers do not change the settings of the CP. This will result in higher performance in benchmarks, no? If it's okay to be like that, then AMD and NVIDIA should make the default settings to be the lowest quality so their performance is at its best.

I've tested in benchmarks and got around 5% improvement going from Quality to High Performance [NVIDIA CP].

HD 6870 CFX is on par with GTX 580 SLI? Which review is that?

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Added on December 29, 2010, 12:33 amSlap a HD6970 sticker on it and voila, HD6970.

This post has been edited by Demonic Wrath: Dec 29 2010, 12:33 AM