This game has been optimized to run on a GTX 690 and that is it. I have a 680 and it runs mediocre to fair at best...but my friend recently got a 690 and he has perfect frame rates and no issues whatsoever...I have heard a lot of complaints from Radeon users as well.

How can you only purely optimize a game to run on only one specific series of a video card? I get that this game is supposed to be "pushing boundaries" in technology but I believe Far Cry 3 had better eye candy and I can max that out on a 500 series!

Maybe I am wrong but after reading up on a lot of peoples experiences and also including my own experience it seems like Crysis 3 is an 80.00 dollar tech demo.

I have yet to experience the Maximum Crysis3 on my poor old GTX580, hahaha, i want a Radeon 7990 or GTX Titan or GTX 690 ( i can dream on right, haha!) what monitor resolution are you using?.

This game has been optimized to run on a GTX 690 and that is it. I have a 680 and it runs mediocre to fair at best...but my friend recently got a 690 and he has perfect frame rates and no issues whatsoever...I have heard a lot of complaints from Radeon users as well.

How can you only purely optimize a game to run on only one specific series of a video card? I get that this game is supposed to be "pushing boundaries" in technology but I believe Far Cry 3 had better eye candy and I can max that out on a 500 series!

Maybe I am wrong but after reading up on a lot of peoples experiences and also including my own experience it seems like Crysis 3 is an 80.00 dollar tech demo.

You do know that a 690 is a lot better than a 680, right? Especially in a game like this. I have a 670 and the game runs perfectly on high and about 30-40 frames on ultra with max AA. I have no reason to complain and neither should you. Every Crysis game pushes the limits of everyone's computer so I don't know why you should be surprised, let alone complain about the game on the forums.

How in the world can you compare Far Cry 3 to this game...are you NEW?

Get another 680 and you can ALMOST say you have a 690!

Crysis 3 is most likely optimized for 7970s at this stage...

Get another 680 and you can ALMOST say you have a 690!

2x 680 would be more powerful than one 690.
OP: Update your drivers?

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Get another 680 and you can ALMOST say you have a 690!

Two GTX 680's will out perform a GTX 690, so that isn't exactly a true statement. A GTX 690 has shared RAM and dual GPU's, the same GPU's found in each GTX 680. Two GTX 680's run their RAM independently. Three GTX 680's way out perform a GTX 690.

With that said, one thing I noticed is this game is not at all optimized for SLI. This could be why the GTX 690 is running better because its not noticed as an SLI card. I was getting slightly better FPS with SLI on than I was without it. I run the GTX 680 4096MB version (not the 2G versions) and I got slightly better performance from the SLI setting over 3-WAY SLI with three GTX 680's. Nvidia still has a ways to go with their drivers, especially where SLI and Tri-SLI are concerned. Also keep in mind that Crytek pushed the limits on this game like they always do, so even the most powerful cards are going to have issues running this alone, it will take an SLI or dual GPU solution of some form or fashion to make this game behave with maxed out settings.

How in the world can you compare Far Cry 3 to this game...are you NEW?
Far Cry 3 is visually appealing yes, better than Crytek's output? Not hardly! I played the entire campaign of FC3, I maxed out all the eye candy and loved the game, but compared to Crysis 3, its still lacking very much. Crysis 3 in 3D is amazing, FC3 renders with layers at the wrong depths and more, its 3D offering svcks badly. Crysis 3 has much better tones and environmental feel in campaign than FC3. FC3 will never be comparable to Crysis 3 in anyway whatsoever. The engines are very different and TBH Crytek's much more superior.

Crysis 3 is most likely optimized for 7970s at this stage...
Well we did see an AMD ad in the start up when it was typically an Nvidia ad that started out most of the Crysis games, so we can safely say they got more sponsorship from AMD on this game and it would also make sense that AMD had better drivers because of that on release day. It simply makes sense that AMD would have the leg up on this release as Nvidia does mostly with the games they sponsor more. Crysis 2 released with better drivers with Nvidia than AMD, this time its just switched.

Some good points made.

I run an OC 3570k i5 Ivy to 4.4gHz , 8Gb RAM, 500GB HDD, x2 GTX 660 OC (2gb each) in SLI, all settings MAXED(Very High) except AA lowered to 4x rather than 8x. 1080p. I am getting a consistent 60 FPS i don't understand the troubles of others with higher end sli setup than mine.

I don't understand all the performance issues people are having. I'm running on a 680 and i7 on very high and get 60-100 frames depending on if i'm inside or out.