Here we summarize the performance of three main competitors in the market of graphics cards today when they render the Crysis WarHead v1.00 game. XFX 260GT XXX, Inno3D 9800GT and the Gainward HD4850 1GB GS are put side by side.

Starting from the DirectX 9 and the resolution of 1280x1024 we see that in the "Performance" level, all graphic cards give almost the same good performance. The big differences start to appear after the "Gamer" level, with the XFX 260GT to take the lead, and the Inno3D 9800GT and the Gainward HD480 to follow with almost identical performances.

Rising up to 1680x1050, the performance differences between the three tested graphics cards are obvious. The Gainward HD4850 seems to be slightly faster after the "Mainstream" level, compared with the Inno3D 9800GT series.

Finally, the results for the 1920x1200 , confirms the linear performance of the XFX 260GTX XXX in all resolutions, while both the Inno3D 9800GT and the Gainward HD4850 are very close to each other, with the Gainward model to produce more frames per second after the Mainstream level.

The DirectX10 rendering mode seems to be tougher for all the graphics cards. At the 1280x1024, the Gainward HD4850 gives higher performance than the Inno3D 9800GT, especially in the Enthusiast mode.

Similar behavior at 1680x1050, with the the Gainward graphics card to be faster than the Inno3D 9800GT.

Finally at 1920x1200, we can see a clear victory for the Gainward HD4850 1GB GS graphic card over the Inno3D 9800GT, mostly after the Mainstream rendering mode. The XFX model is still faster as it was expected.