Crysis is probably the de facto benchmark game since no currently sold card can have acceptable frame rates when very high quality settings are selected. All tested graphic cards offer acceptable frame rates at 1280x1024 with high quality settings enabled. The XFX 260GTX is expected to have high frame rates at all resolutions and quality modes, especially when compared with previous generation cards.

With High Details settings, the XFX 260GTX performed as high as the 8800GTS 512 SLI setup:

Enabling the very high quality settings has a significant impact (over 50%) on the performance for all the graphics cards of this test.

The XFX 260GTX series still manages to have the highest performance, although the 20FPS result is not adequate for playing.

When we pushed the resolutions at 1680x1050 and 19200x1200, the XFX 260GTX remained at the top, although the reported 17FPS and 15FPS respectively indicate that an SLI configuration here could to do the job.