Crysis: Warhead - NVIDIAs GeForce GTS 450: Pushing Fermi In To The Mainstream

Crysis: Warhead

Kicking things off as always is Crysis: Warhead, still the toughest game in our benchmark suite.Even 2 years since the release of the original Crysis, “but can it run Crysis?” is still an important question.

Ideally, NVIDIA would like the GTS 450 to be able to play everything at 1680x1050 at high settings with 4x anti-aliasing. Crysis of course eludes this, just as it does all attempts to play it at a decent framerate. Even the factory overclocked cards can’t muster 30fps here. For that we have to drop our settings to Gamer quality without AA.

Overall, at reference clocks the GTS 450 doesn’t fare so well here. At our standard 1680 setting it just falls to the Radeon HD 5750, and is miles away from the 5770. At Gamer quality it switches positions with the 5750, but still has quite a gap with the 5770. However the overclocked cards fare much better here, and they can bring the GTS 450 up to parity with the 5770. Since the cheapest 5770s are selling for no more than the GTS 450, ideally it (or its overclocked variants) need to be able to keep up with the 5770.

When it comes to minimum framerates the GTS 450 does a bit better here by edging out the 5750, but it takes a factory overclocked card to beat the 5770.

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