AMD Radeon HD 6870 & HD 6850

One of the more popular Internet memes for the past couple of years has been, “Can it run Crysis?”, but as soon as Metro 2033 launched, that’s a meme that should have died. Metro 2033 is without question one of the beefiest games on the market, and though it supports DirectX 11, it’s almost a feature worth ignoring, because the extent you’ll need to go to in order to see playable framerates isn’t likely going to be worth it.

Manual Run-through: The level we use for testing is part of chapter 4, called “Child”, where we must follow a linear path through multiple corridors until we reach our end point, which takes a total of about 90 seconds. Please note that due to the reason mentioned above, we test this game in DX10 mode, as DX11 simply isn’t that realistic from a performance standpoint.

AMD’s success train hasn’t halted yet, as both of the company’s latest cards perform well again in Metro 2033. At 2560×1600, the performance between the two actually came scary close to one another.

Metro 2033 is without question one of the most hardcore PC games on the market right now, in terms of graphics, so both of our cards has to see the detail levels decreased to Medium, from High. It’s unfortunate that this game doesn’t allow fine-tuning of the graphics settings more than it does, as I feel we could do quite a bit of it and see better overall quality.