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Locknuts on 28 January 2014
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Pemalite said:
Locknuts said:
Interesting. I remember when a GTX8800 could hardly run Crysis at 30fps at medium settings. That game was built from the ground up on PC and that was the best video card out at the time (it cost AU$1000 when it launched). Then the PS360 got a version which wasn't too far behind what the GTX8800 could do.

It just goes to show what monsters the PS360 were for their time, but they both sold at a loss for a long time. My understanding is that the X1 & PS4 are pretty much breaking even for Sony and Microsoft, so the fact that a $150 video card on a 28nm manufacturing process can almost match them is pretty telling. I know it's early in the new console gen, but I can't see gaming performance making massive leaps from where it is now on the consoles. They're apparently pretty easy to develop for so I'd imagine gradual improvements as new engines (snowdrop etc) allow it.

Can't wait for Maxwell :)

Actually a Geforce GTX 8800 768Mb could do high settings at 1080P and still achieve 30fps, provided you had a beefy Core 2 Duo and did some overclocking.
The trick was to run Crysis in Direct X 9 mode rather than Direct X 10, then with a couple of .ini tweaks you can get the Direct X 9 path to look similar to the Direct X 10 path but with the added benefit of allot more performance.

Besides, the console version wasn't actually a "port" of the origional Crysis per-say.
Crytek actually ported the game to CryEngine 3, when the PC version was using CryEngine 2, then ported the game to consoles. - But even with that move  allot of foliage and other assets were missing.
It would have been impossible for the consoles to run the origional crysis with all the assets and effects intact with CryEngine 2.

The Geforce 7950 series is probably a more accurate assumption of what to expect with that game.
The PC version (with tweaking of course) you could do better than the 360/PS3 with the DX9 path if you sacrifice some resolution (Same goes for Crysis 2 too).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rcGb8nvWJM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyr9VR_GVZQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHWPGmf_A_0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l1TnsDYE5k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZbLAtoZNOY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upw5wFOc0Ig
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1234/nvidia_geforce_8800gts_512mb_g92_tested/index18.html

I do concur however that relative to a high-end PC the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 were incredibly powerfull, which is in stark contrast to this new generation of consoles which are only equivalent to a mid-range PC. (Enthusiast-level PC's are always in an entirely different league.)

Ah yes. I forgot it was one of the first DX10 games. You're right, the DX9 version did run better.