Crysis is probably the defacto benchmark game since almost no currently sold card can offer acceptable frame rates, especially when high quality settings have beed selected.

All tested graphics cards give acceptable frame rates at 1280x1024 with high quality settings enabled. The Asus EN9600GT Top had an average of 28FPS, although Gainward's additional 512MB of memory proved to be helpful, providing some exrta FPS.

Enabling the very high quality settings has a significant impact (over 50%) on performance of all the tested graphic cards. The Asus 9600GT Top reached the 12FPS, while the Gainward 9600GT 1024GS was just one FPS faster.

Pushing resolutions even higher (1680x1050 and 19200x1200) did not allow us to play the game. All tested 9600GT cards gave the same performance.