I recently purchased a second hand Mac Pro for $600, which I thought I was a good buy. The Mac came with a 8800gt which is a bit old school so I've been waiting about 2 weeks for my new graphics card to arrive, which is a EVGA GTX 660 SC card.

Since I didn't play it when it came out and it is renowned for it's graphics, I got hold of Crysis and wanted to try it out. I started playing the game, I put all the settings on max and played and it ran pretty good, performance is very playable. However when I turned on the FPS I was shocked to see it was going between 30 and 45 fps.

Considering that the Mac has 2 CPU's and 8 cores, and the GPU is very fast according to reviews, I was a bit surprised to see the PC running a 5 year old game so badly.

It appears that whether I change AA or the resolution it makes no difference to the FPS, and there is no difference in FPS between high and very high settings. The FPS for the different settings looks like this:

Low: 90fps
Medium: 60fps
High: 45fps
Very High: 45fps

Anyway, what I want to ask you smart folk is whether there is something wrong somewhere, or that performance sounds normal. I'm just bothered looking at reviews of old cards that appear to be getting similar fps.

tl;dr

Crysis fps is lower than I expected on my pc and wonder if that's normal.