Crysis and Lost Planet
Crysis remains difficult to play with no additional image-quality enhancement over and above the game's HQ setting, though.
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition runs faster on NVIDIA's hardware. It's a TWIMTBP title, and the last time you'll see it in our high-end benchmarking suite.
Summary
Providing around 10 per cent extra performance over a stock-clocked card, XFX's XXX needs the extra power to comfortably performance-differentiate itself from the cheaper Radeon HD 4870.
Let's see how it all shakes out in the value-for-money look.
