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.








The GTX460 is pretty much neck and neck with the GTX465 in terms of performance here both at stock and overclocked. At stock speed and no AA applied, the GTX460 takes a slight lead thanks to the extra shader power it has. With AA applied, the Zotac increases its lead but only by a minimal amount. When both Nvidia cards are overclocked, the GTX465 manages to close the gap thanks to its relatively higher overclock. Although it managed to beat the GTX460 with no AA applied, the superior shader power of the latter comes through with AA. The GTX460 makes a good start in showing that it's a worthy replacement for the GF100 based GTX465.

Compared to the ATI card, the GTX460 is no competition. The pre-overclocked HD5850 has a 25% lead when both cards are at their defaults clock speeds. The overclocked GTX460 edges closer to the stock HD5850 performance but again we have to remember that the latter can also be heavily overclocked.