Crysis 3 is a first person shooter video game, published by Electronic Arts and released in February 2013. While older than some of the others it is one of the most visually stunning games released to date and puts a lot of demands on the GPU. This makes it perfect for more real world gaming testing. To obtain repeatable results we have used FRAPs and recorded 90 seconds of the single player ‘Post Human’ level, starting as soon as soon as prophet is handed a Hammer II pistol by Psycho. An average of four runs was taken.
The settings used in the testing below are highest settings for quality, VSync disabled and a resolution of 2560×1440 and 1920×1080. Texture Quality, Game Effects, Objects, Particles, Post Processing, Shadows, Shading, Water, and System Specs all set to Very High. Motion Blur was set to High and Lens Flare was set to On. Anti-Aliasing was set to MSAA 8X and Antistrophic Filtering was set to 16x.
For basically $50 more than a factory overclocked R7 370 you get at least 56% better performance. That pretty much defines ‘value’ to us. Equally impressive is this card easily justifies its asking price against reference / ‘stock’ GTX 960s. No matter what the resolution this card is simply better. Of course only at higher resolutions does the same hold true of factory overclocked GTX 960s, but once again that is impressive given the fact that this core is older than the Maxwell core inside the 960 series.
