Following the success of Crysis, the stand alone expansion "Warhead" was hotly anticipated to bring more game play, more weapons, improved visuals whilst maintaining better performance, the latter being what gamers wanted most. After all how many people upgraded their rigs just to play this game... In the game, you play as the upbeat Brit Sergeant "Psycho" Sykes, chasing down a Korean nuclear warhead. Throw in some ice shooting aliens and we're bound to have a great game. It sure delivered.

Testing was done using Framebuffer’s Crysis Warhead benchmarking tool. The tests were configured to DirectX 10 at Enthusiast levels. Each test on the Ambush map was looped three times from which the average FPS was recorded.








The two HD6970s perform very similarly in Crysis with very little difference between the two. The ASUS manages to grab the most marginal of leads over the GIGABYTE thanks to its 10MHz overclock when looking at default speeds. Even when both are overclocked, the GIGABYTE keeps up despite the much higher overclock on the ASUS card.