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Kurtis Kronk
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ATI
Jun. 12, 2006
Half-Life 2



Our Half-Life 2 benchmark consists of a timedemo we recorded in the canals level (map d1_canals06). In this timedemo Gordon is in a boat and emerges from an enclosed area into a canal. He maneuvers through several obstacles and eventually comes across some enemies. Some Combine dropships fly by overhead and a couple of Combine soldiers on the ground fire their weapons. There is a lot of water in this scene.

All of the in-game graphical settings were set to high. The "Reflections" drop down menu was set to "Reflect All." The "HDR" drop-down menu was set to "None." Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering were controlled through a batch file which changes the in-game settings. After the batch has finished running, the average frames per second for each test is output to a file. For each test, the timedemo was run three times and the results were averaged. The game was up-to-date as of 3/3/06.

Half-Life 2 @ 1024 x 768
(Show All Graphs)
No AA / No AF 4xAA / 8xAF
ATI X1900 XTX 512 MB
ATI X1800 XL 256 MB
ATI X1800 XT 512 MB
ATI X1800 GTO 256 MB
XFX 7900 GT 256 MB XXX
XFX 7600 GT 256 MB XXX
ATI X1600 XT 256 MB
XFX 7800 GTX 256 MB
XFX 7800 GT 256 MB
XFX 7800 GTX 256 MB (SLI)
BFG 7900 GTX OC 512MB
XFX 6800 GT 256 MB
99
98
98
98
96
96
95
95
95
94
94
91
0
FPS
120
 
 
No AA / No AF 4xAA / 8xAF
ATI X1900 XTX 512 MB
ATI X1800 XT 512 MB
XFX 7900 GT 256 MB XXX
ATI X1800 XL 256 MB
BFG 7900 GTX OC 512MB
XFX 7800 GTX 256 MB
XFX 7800 GT 256 MB
XFX 7800 GTX 256 MB (SLI)
ATI X1800 GTO 256 MB
XFX 7600 GT 256 MB XXX
ATI X1600 XT 256 MB
XFX 6800 GT 256 MB
99
98
97
96
95
95
94
94
93
92
70
70
0
FPS
120
 
 

Half-Life 2 @ 1600 x 1200
(Show All Graphs)
No AA / No AF 4xAA / 8xAF
ATI X1900 XTX 512 MB
XFX 7900 GT 256 MB XXX
ATI X1800 XT 512 MB
BFG 7900 GTX OC 512MB
XFX 7800 GTX 256 MB
XFX 7800 GTX 256 MB (SLI)
ATI X1800 XL 256 MB
XFX 7800 GT 256 MB
XFX 7600 GT 256 MB XXX
ATI X1800 GTO 256 MB
ATI X1600 XT 256 MB
XFX 6800 GT 256 MB
98
96
96
95
92
91
90
89
84
82
65
63
0
FPS
120
 
 
No AA / No AF 4xAA / 8xAF
ATI X1900 XTX 512 MB
BFG 7900 GTX OC 512MB
ATI X1800 XT 512 MB
XFX 7900 GT 256 MB XXX
XFX 7800 GTX 256 MB
XFX 7800 GTX 256 MB (SLI)
ATI X1800 XL 256 MB
XFX 7800 GT 256 MB
ATI X1800 GTO 256 MB
XFX 7600 GT 256 MB XXX
ATI X1600 XT 256 MB
XFX 6800 GT 256 MB
95
93
90
88
77
75
74
69
64
57
39
39
0
FPS
120
 
 

Half-Life 2 @ 2048 x 1536
(Show All Graphs)
No AA / No AF 4xAA / 8xAF
ATI X1900 XTX 512 MB
BFG 7900 GTX OC 512MB
XFX 7900 GT 256 MB XXX
ATI X1800 XT 512 MB
XFX 7800 GTX 256 MB
XFX 7800 GTX 256 MB (SLI)
XFX 7800 GT 256 MB
ATI X1800 XL 256 MB
XFX 7600 GT 256 MB XXX
ATI X1800 GTO 256 MB
ATI X1600 XT 256 MB
XFX 6800 GT 256 MB
97
93
92
87
84
84
76
75
66
61
44
43
0
FPS
120
 
 
No AA / No AF 4xAA / 8xAF
ATI X1900 XTX 512 MB
BFG 7900 GTX OC 512MB
ATI X1800 XT 512 MB
XFX 7900 GT 256 MB XXX
XFX 7800 GTX 256 MB
XFX 7800 GTX 256 MB (SLI)
XFX 7800 GT 256 MB
ATI X1800 XL 256 MB
ATI X1800 GTO 256 MB
XFX 7600 GT 256 MB XXX
ATI X1600 XT 256 MB
XFX 6800 GT 256 MB
88
81
74
61
50
45
44
41
36
32
21
19
0
FPS
120
 
 


We'd like to thank Directron.com for donating the ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 Motherboard which we used for testing.