Mesh Elite GTX 465 & GTX 480 systems review

Crysis Warhead, like the original, Crysis, is based in a future where an ancient alien spacecraft has been discovered beneath the Earth on an island east of the Philippines. The single-player campaign has the player assume the role of (Former SAS) Delta Force operator Sergeant Michael Sykes, referred to in-game by his call sign, Psycho. Psycho’s arsenal of futuristic weapons builds on those showcased in Crysis, with the introduction of Mini-SMGs which can be dual-wielded, a six-shot grenade launcher equipped with EMP grenades, and the destructive, short ranged Plasma Accumulator Cannon (PAX). The highly versatile Nanosuit returns.

In Crysis Warhead, the player fights North Korean and extraterrestrial enemies, in many different locations, such as a tropical island jungle, inside an “Ice Sphere”, an underground mining complex, which is followed by a convoy train transporting an unknown alien object held by the North Koreans, and finally, to an airfield. Like Crysis, Warhead uses Microsoft’s new API, Direct3D 10 (DirectX 10) for graphics rendering.

We tested Crysis with our own custom benchmark through several areas of the heaviest action at 1920×1080 with quality settings on high and global settings to DX10/64-bit. You can expect your own general real world experience to be higher than our findings because we are aiming for an absolute worst case scenario.

Both systems are able to handle this game at the choosen image quality settings with relative ease. The GTX465 system did drop once under 25fps however it wasn't really noticeable. Next we crank the settings to enthusiast.

We can see the extra headroom the GTX480 offers – allowing Crysis Warhead to remain completely playable through our intensive benchmarking game sections. The GTX465 system runs out of steam a little however remains playable throughout a good portion of our test environments.

The GTX480 graph really speaks for itself showing massive increases against the Elite GTX465 based solution. The differences are really noticeable with Enthusiast settings applied.

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