Far Cry 2 is one of the hottest game titles available in the market. The game supports both DirectX 9 and DirectX10 and its graphics engine is much lighter than the one Crysis uses. As a result, all graphic cards are expected to perform well even at 1920x1200 with 16xAA/16xAF enabled.

The more demanding the quality settings are, the less performance we get. The Gainward HD4870 started very well with 86.82 FPS, having a slight lead over the XFX 260 GTX XXX. However, the card did not manage to stay ahead Nvidia's solution at the Ultra High mode, where the FPS dropped at 50.35.

We noticed the same behavior at 1680x1050, with the HD4870 to be slower as we increased the quality settings. Again, the Nvidia XFX 260GTX XXX faster at "Ultra High" settings by 10 FPS.

At the highest resolution of 1920x1200, we see smaller differences in the performance of the two cards.

Finally, at the DirectX 10 Shaders test, the XFX 260GTX XXX was faster, especially with 16xAA/16xAF enabled.