AMD Radeon HD 6870 & HD 6850 in CrossFireX

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 has gotten back on track here, with some wicked performance at the high-end resolution of 2560×1600.

Since the performance seen with our usual settings above was so good, that’s where I left the Best Playable settings at. Enabling Very High detail lagged the game to no end, and the performance drop with DirectX 11 mode made it less than desirable. At resolutions of 1920×1080 or lower, you’ll have far better chances with DirectX 11 mode.