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Crysis on 27"iMac 2010 i5 ATI 5750

apolloa said:
Why is it that EVERY time a game pushes a system someone say's it's because 'It's not coded very well'??!!! No, it's because the game will eat up every ounce of your computers performance and spit it back at you! And 18 FPS is pretty good. But the screen's native res is high and you will need a more powerful computer to run the game at high settings at that resolution.
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Yeah, this ^ Crysis in fact appears to be VERY well coded. It runs and looks fantastic on a 32-core Nvidia parts...roughly 2005 class hardware. The fact that you can crank settings up even further doesn't mean it's poorly coded. I think Crytek 2.0 is the most advanced engine, at least until ID Tech 5 hits.

Anyway the 5750 looks like a solid mid range card. 720 of AMD's cores (AMD's aren't comparable to Nvidia's, which are worth roughly 4 to 1) puts it at close to half of AMD's high end GPU. It's actually a bit worse than the best notebook GPUs now though, although not by a huge amount.
 
Ace134blue said:
Plus 2560 by 1600 has 10% more pixels then 1440.
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Which won't even make for a 10% performance gain.

On the topic at hand though, if you can find me some benchmarks of the high end cards performing well on crysis at 2560x1600, I would possibly be enlightened.
 
TMRaven said:
That seems to be a popular misconception on macrumors-- the whole resolution playing a huge role thing. It does play a role to a certain extent, but no where near enough to make a considerably slower gpu have the same or better performance at 1920x1080 compared to 2560x1440 for the faster gpu.
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Wrong. Resolution does play a huge rule and the guy is right to suspect that playing at the 1920x1080 resolution with an HD 5670 is superior in performance to playing at 2560x1440 with an HD 5750, albeit not by much.

examples:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Axle/Radeon_HD_5670/10.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Axle/Radeon_HD_5670/23.html

That said, you can always lower the resolution of the 27-inch screen...
 
TMRaven said:
Which won't even make for a 10% performance gain.

On the topic at hand though, if you can find me some benchmarks of the high end cards performing well on crysis at 2560x1600, I would possibly be enlightened.
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That, you are actually right about. Crysis was and still is a beast. But there are many cards out there that can run it reasonably well at 1920x1200, especially the new GTX 580.

In any case, no one should buy an imac to play games. That's not what they're for.
 
TMRaven said:
Which won't even make for a 10% performance gain.

On the topic at hand though, if you can find me some benchmarks of the high end cards performing well on crysis at 2560x1600, I would possibly be enlightened.
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It will at least be 5% or so, any ways stock cards wont pass the 30fps barrier, but Overclocked 5970 and especially the 580 goes past the 30fps mark.
 
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