Crysis is probably the de facto benchmark game since no currently sold card can have acceptable frame rates when very high quality settings are selected. All tested graphic cards offer acceptable frame rates at 1280x1024 with high quality settings enabled. The Inno3D iChill 9800GT gave a good performance with 35FPS, slightly better than the 8800GT card.

As always, setting the quality settings at "Very High" in the specific game makes it practically unplayable. The Inno3D iChill 9800GT gave just 18FPS.

Pushing resolutions even higher at 1680x1050 and 19200x1200 makes things even worse, with all the cards struggling to offer some frames. No difference between the performance of the 9800GT and the 8800GT products here.